Al-Kafirun Explained
| Number: | 109 |
| Number-3: | 109 |
| Arabic: Al-Kāfirūn|italic=no |
| Name-Ar: | Arabic: ٱلكَافِرُون |
| Name-En: | The Disbelievers |
| Prev Sura: | Quran 108 |
| Next Sura: | Quran 110 |
| Classification: | Meccan |
| Othernames: | The Unbelievers, The Nonbelievers |
| Juz: | 30 |
| Verses: | 6 |
| Words: | 27 |
| Letters: | 98 |
| Audio: | Chapter 109, Al-Kafirun (Mujawwad) - Recitation of the Holy Qur'an.mp3 |
| Hizb Number: | 60 |
Al-Kāfirūn (Arabic: الكافرون, "The Disbelievers") is the 109th chapter (sūrah) of the Quran. It has six ayat or verses as follows:
[1] Say, "Say, “O disbelievers,I do not worship what you worship.Nor are you worshippers of what I worship.Nor will I be a worshipper of what you worship.Nor will you be worshippers of what I worship.For you is your religion, and for me is my religion.”"[2]
Text and meaning
Text and transliteration
Arabic: Bismi l-lāhi r-raḥmāni r-raḥīm(i)
Arabic: Bismi l-lāhi r-raḥmāni r-raḥīm(i)
Translations
Say (O Muhammad (Peace be upon him) to these Mushrikun and Kafirun): "O Al-Kafirun (disbelievers in Allah, in His Oneness, in His Angels, in His Books, in His Messengers, in the Day of Resurrection, and in Al-Qadar, etc.)!
"I worship not that which you worship,
"Nor will you worship that which I worship.
"And I shall not worship that which you are worshipping.
"Nor will you worship that which I worship.
"To you be your religion, and to me my religion (Islamic Monotheism)."
Say, "O disbelievers,
I do not worship what you worship.
Nor are you worshippers of what I worship.
Nor will I be a worshipper of what you worship.
Nor will you be worshippers of what I worship.
For you is your religion, and for me is my religion."
Say: O ye that reject Faith!
I worship not that which ye worship,
Nor will ye worship that which I worship.
And I will not worship that which ye have been wont to worship,
Nor will ye worship that which I worship.
To you be your Way, and to me mine.
[3]
Say: O disbelievers!
I worship not that which ye worship;
Nor worship ye that which I worship.
And I shall not worship that which ye worship.
Nor will ye worship that which I worship.
Unto you your religion, and unto me my religion.
Summary
- 1-6 Muhammad declines to compromise with idolatry [4]
Like many of the shorter surahs, the surah of the unbelievers takes the form of an invocation, telling the reader something they must ask for or say aloud. Here, the passage declares the separation between belief and unbelief both in the past and the present, ending with a firm rejection of the disbelief in Allah and Muhammad, "to you your religion, and to me mine".[5]
Al-Kafirun is classified as a Meccan surah, meaning it's believed to have been revealed in Mecca. According to tradition, the surah was revealed when some chieftains of Mecca, including Walid ibn al-Mughira, proposed peace to Muhammad that one year the Muslims would worship pagan gods, and the next year Meccans would worship Allah.[6]
Hadith
- Abdullah ibn Umar has related that on many an occasions he heard Muhammad upon whom be peace recite Surahs Qul Ya- ayyuhal- kafirun and Qul Huwu-Allahu ahad in the two before the obligatory prayer and in the two after Maghrib prayer.[7]
- Khabbab ibn al-Aratt says: "The Holy Prophet (upon whom be peace) said to me: when you lie down in bed to sleep, recite, and this was the Holy Prophet's own practice also; when he lay down to sleep, he recited this ."[8]
- According to Ibn Abbas, Muhammad said to the people: "Should I tell you the word which will protect you from polytheism? It is that you should recite when you go to bed."[9]
- Anas says that Muhammad said to Mu'adh bin Jabal; "Recite at the time you go to bed, for this is immunity from polytheism."[10] [11]
- Both Fardah bin Naufal and Abdur Rahman bin Naufal have stated that their father, Naufal bin Muawiyah al-Ashjai, said to Muhammad: "Teach me something which I may recite at the time I go to bed." Muhammad replied: "Recite to the end and then sleep, for this is immunity from polytheism."[12] A similar request was made by Jabalah bin Harithah, brother of Said bin Harithah, to Muhammad and to him also he gave the same reply.[13]
- Muhammad recited in the two before the morning prayer and the two after the sunset prayer on ten or twenty occasions: Say and say He is God, the One (surah 112: al-Ikhlas).[14]
External links
Notes and References
- [Arabic script in Unicode]
- [Sahih International]
- Web site: 2015-07-26 . Surah Al-Kafirun . 2022-08-19 . Ulkaa Islam . en.
- Book: Wherry . Elwood Morris . Elwood Morris Wherry . A Complete Index to Sale's Text, Preliminary Discourse, and Notes . 1896 . Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, and Co . London.
- Web site: Kathir . Ibn . Tafsir of Chapter 109: Surah Al-Kafirun (The Disbelievers) - SunnahOnline.com . sunnahonline.com . 10 October 2023.
- Web site: Surah al Kafirun-English translation and complete tafseer . 2023-11-01.
- Several traditions on this subject with a little variation in wording have been related by Imam Ahmad, Tirmidhi, Al-Nasa'i, Ibn Majah, Ibn Hibban, Ibn Marduyah from ibn Umar.
- Abu Bakr Al-Bazzar, Al-Tabarani, Ibn Marduyah
- Abu Ya'la, Al-Tabarani
- [Al-Bayhaqi]
- [Abu Dawood|Abu Dawud]
- (Musnad Ahmad, Abu Dawud, Tirmidhi, Al-Nasa'i, Ibn Abi Shaibah, Hakim ibn Hizam, Ibn Marduyah, Al-Bayhaqi in Ash-Shuab).
- (Musnad Ahmad, Al-Tabarani).
- [Ahmad ibn Hanbal|Imam Ahmad]
