At-Takwir Explained
| Number: | 81 |
| Number-3: | 081 |
| At-Takwīr |
| Name-Ar: | التكوير |
| Name-En: | The OverThrowing |
| Prev Sura: | Quran 80 |
| Next Sura: | Quran 82 |
| Classification: | Meccan |
| Othernames: | The Cessation, The Darkening, The Rolling, The turning into a sphere |
| Juz: | 30 |
| Verses: | 29 |
| Words: | 104 |
| Letters: | 435 |
| Audio: | Chapter 81, At-Takwir (Mujawwad) - Recitation of the Holy Qur'an.mp3 |
At-Takwīr (Arabic: التكوير, literally "The Turning Into a Sphere") is the eighty-first chapter (sura) of the Qur'an, with 29 verses (ayat). It tells about signs of the coming of the day of judgement.
Summary
- 1-14 The terrible signs of the judgment-day
- 15-25 Oaths that the Quran is the word of Allah, and that Muhammad is neither a madman nor deluded by the devil
- 26-29 The Quran an admonition to all men [1]
Hadith
- Whoever wants to see the Qiyamah with his/her eyes should read the verses of at-Takwir, al-Infitar and al-Inshiqaq.” [2] [3]
- Imam Ahmad recorded from Ibn Umar that Muhammad said: "Whoever wishes to look at the Day of Resurrection, as if he is seeing it with this eye, then let him recite: ‘When the sun Kuwwirat’(At-Takwir) and ‘When the heaven is cleft sunder (Al-Infitar) and ‘When the heaven is split asunder.(Al-Inshiqaq)’”[4] [5] [6]
- Umar ibn Horayth said: "I heard the Prophet (ﷺ) reciting: 'When the sun is wound round.' in fajr. (at-Takwir (81:1)) "[7]
- Sahabah reported[8] that Muhammad used to recite surahs An-Naba (78) and Al-Mursalat (77) in one rak'ah, and surahs Ad-Dukhan (44) and At-Takwir (81) in one rak'ah.[9] [10]
Notes and References
- 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.
- (Tirmidhi, Tafsir: 81- Ahmad: 2/27, 36,100-5/452)
- [Jami` at-Tirmidhi]
- [Jami` at-Tirmidhi]
- This is mentioned in Tafsir ibn kathir, Likewise, At-Tirmidhi has also recorded this Hadith.
- (Jami` at-Tirmidhi, Tafsir: 81- Ahmad: 2/27, 36,100-5/452)
- [Sunan an-Nasa'i]
- [Sunan Abu-Dawud]
- [Sunan Abu-Dawud]
- Web site: Center for Muslim-Jewish Engagement . 2013-10-21 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130604103310/http://www.usc.edu/org/cmje/religious-texts/hadith/abudawud/006-sat.php . 2013-06-04 . dead .
