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II Surah 15
of the Quran
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الحِجْرْ
Al-Ḥijr
The Stoneland
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Classification
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Meccan
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Other names
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Al-Hijr Valley
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Position
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Juzʼ 13-14
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Hizb no.
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27
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No. of verses
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99
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No. of Rukus
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6
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No. of words
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657
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No. of letters
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2882
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This surah takes its
name from 80th verse (āyah),[3] which refers
to Mada'in Saleh, a
pre-Islamic archaeological site, also called Hegra (from Arabic: الحِجَارَة, romanized: alḥijāra, lit. 'the
Stones') or al-Ḥijr (Arabic: الحِجر, romanized: al-ḥijr, lit. 'the
Stone').
Summary
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1-3 Unbelievers will one day wish themselves
Muslims
4-5 Every
nation has its day of grace
6 Muhammad
charged with demoniacal possession by the
disbelievers (the Quraysh)
7 The
unbelievers say a true prophet would have come with a company of angels
8 Angels
are not sent to gratify curiosity, but to minister judgment
9 God
the revealer and preserver of the Quran
10-11 The
former prophets were laughed to scorn
12-15 The
scoffing Quraysh judicially blinded
16-20 God
declares his glory in the heaven and the earth
21-22 He is
active in every part of Nature
23-25 He is
the God of life, death, and judgment
26-29 God
says men created of
clay—the Jinn of fire
29-33 Iblis, unlike the angels,
refuses to prostrate to Adam
34-38 He is
cursed and respited until the judgment
39-40 Satan
declares to God his purpose to seduce men
41-42 The
elect are safe from Satan’s power
43-44 The
seven gates of hell will receive Satan’s followers
45-50 Paradise
joys in store for true believers
51-77 The
story of Abraham and
Lot's conflict
78-79 The
unbelieving Midianites are destroyed
80-81 The
scoffing inhabitants of al Hijr reject
their prophets though accompanied with miracles
82-84 Rock-hewn
houses fail to save them
85-86 The
heaven and earth created in righteousness
87 Command
to repeat the seven verses (al-Fatiha)
88-90 Muhammad
not to consider the prosperity of infidels
91-93 The
enemies of God will surely be punished
94-96 Muhammad
commanded to preach boldly
97-99 He is
exhorted to praise and serve God until death [4]
Verse [Section]
Complete [6]
1-15 [1]
16-25 [2]
26-44 [3]
45-60 [4]
61-79 [5]
80-99 [6]
Verse Theme
Surah 15. Al-Hijr
1-1 Al-Quran
is the Divine Book
2-15 On
the Day of Judgement, the unbelievers will wish that they were Muslims and
Allah Himself has taken the responsibility of preserving
Al-Quran
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16-25 Allah
created and decorated the heavens and also created everything suitable for
human life on earth
(15:17)
and have protected them against every accursed satan10
10. That is, these spheres are so
fortified that they are beyond the reach of every Satan, for all Satans
including those of jinns, have been confined to that sphere in which the Earth
has been placed and they enjoy no more access to visit other spheres than the
other dwellers of this sphere. This has been mentioned in order to remove a
common misunderstanding. The common people believed, and still believe, that
Satan and his descendants have a free access to every place in the universe. On
the contrary, the Quran says that Satans cannot go beyond a certain limit and
they have no unlimited power of ascension.
(15:18)
save him who may eavesdrop,11 and then
a bright flame pursues him.12
11. This is the
answer to the false claim of the soothsayers, diviners, hermits, conjurers and
the like who pretended to receive communications from the Heaven. The Quran
says that in fact they do not possess any means of obtaining information about
unseen things. Satans, however, try to eaves-drop because they are by nature
more like angels than human beings, but in reality, they succeed in obtaining
very little information about it.
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26-44 Story
of Adam's creation; prostration of the angels before him and the refusal of
Shaitan to prostrate and Shaitan and his followers are destined for hell
(15:26)
Surely
We brought man into being out of dry ringing clay which was wrought from black
mud,17
17. The Arabic word salsal means the dried clay which produces a sound like pottery.
Hams is the
black mud which has become so rotten as to be in a fermented state.
Masnun has a
double meaning: (a) rotten clay which has become greasy, (b) clay which has
been molded into a shape. It is clear from the wording of the text that at
first the image of man was made of clay from rotten earth and when it dried up,
soul was breathed into it. Thus the Quran
positively refutes the Darwinian theory of evolution that man came into
existence after passing through continuous genetic adaptations. It will,
therefore, be a futile attempt, as some modernized commentators have done, to
prove that theory from the Quran.
(15:27) while We had
brought the jinn into being before out of blazing fire.18
18. As samum is not wind,
nar-i-samum will mean
flame of intense heat and not of
fire.
This is the explanation of those passages in
which it has been stated that jinns have been created from fire.
(15:29)
When I have completed shaping him and have breathed
into him of My Spirit,19 then fall you down before him in prostration.
"
19. “And have breathed into him of My Spirit” means when I have cast a
reflection of My divine characteristics on him. This shows that the soul of man
implies life, knowledge, power, will, discretion and other human
characteristics in the aggregate. These are in reality a slight
reflection of divine characteristics that has been cast on the human body,
which was originally created from dried clay. And it is this divine reflection
on the human body which has raised him to the position of the vicegerent of Allah
and made him that worthy being before whom angels and every earthly thing
should bow down.
As a matter of
fact, the source of each characteristic of everything is one divine
characteristic or the other, as is borne by a tradition: Allah divided mercy
into one hundred parts: then He reserved ninety-nine parts for Himself and sent
down the remaining one part to the earth. It is because of that one part that
the creatures show mercy to one another. So much so that it is due to this that
an animal refrains from placing the hoof on its young ones.
In this
connection
one has to be on strict guard against the notion that the possession of
a part of any divine characteristic amounts to the possession of a part of
Godhead. This is because Godhead is absolutely beyond the reach of each and
every creation.
(15:44)
There are seven gates in it, and to each gate a portion of
them has been allotted.26
26. Sinners will be divided into
different groups in accordance with their different sins for their entry into
Hell from seven different gates specified for each different sin. For instance,
the group of atheists shall enter into Hell by one of the seven gates specified
for their group. Likewise, mushriks, hypocrites, self-seekers, sens2ualists,
tyrants, propagandists and leaders of disbelief etc. shall each enter into Hell
through the gates specified for their group.
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45-50 The
righteous will be awarded paradise
(15:48)
They
shall face no fatigue in it, nor shall they ever be driven out of it.29
29. This verse is explained by the
following tradition: It will be announced to the dwellers of the Gardens: Now
you will remain hale and hearty forever and shall never fall ill, now you will
enjoy eternal life and shall never die, now you will remain young forever and
never grow old, and now you will remain forever in Paradise and shall never
have to move away from it. There are other traditions that further elucidate
life in Paradise to this effect: The dwellers shall have no toil to perform for
their livelihood and necessities of life. They will get everything without any
labor whatsoever.
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51-60 Prophet
Ibrahim is given the good news of a son by two angels
(15:51) And
tell them about Abraham's guests.30
30. The story of Prophets
Abraham and Lot (peace be upon them) has been related to tell the disbelievers
of Makkah how angels come down with truth. This was in response to their
demand: Why do you not bring angels before us, if what you say is true? (Ayat 7). Then, only
this brief answer was given: We do not send down angels in this way. When they
come down, they come down with truth (Ayat 8). Now these
two events are cited as two concrete forms of truth with which the angels came,
as if to ask the disbelievers:
Now decide for yourselves which of
these two forms of truth would you want angels to bring to you. It is obvious
that you do not deserve that truth which was sent to Prophet Abraham (peace be
upon him). Do you then desire that truth which the angels brought to the people
of Prophet Lot (peace be upon him)?
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· 61-79 The
same angels came to Prophet Lut and executed Allah's d15:62) he
said: "Surely you are an unknown folk."36
·
36. Here the story has been related
in brief. But we learn from (Surah Houd, Ayats
77-83) that Prophet Lot (peace be upon him) was greatly
perturbed and distressed at the visit of the angels. He said to himself, “This
is a day of woe.” The reason why he was distressed, as implied in the Quran and
explicitly expressed in the traditions, was that the angels had come to Prophet
Lot (peace be upon him) in the form of beautiful boys, and he knew how perverse
and wicked his people were. He was distressed for he could not send them away
because they were his guests, and because he did not know how to protect them
from those villains
· ecree of stoning to death the nation
of homosexuals
61-72
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80-86 Punishment
to the people of Hijr for their disbelief
(15:80)
Surely the people of al-Hijr45 also
rejected the Messengers, calling them liars.
45. Al-Hijr was the capital city of
the people of Thamud, and its ruins are found near the modern city of Al-Ula
which is to the north west of Al-Madinah, and lies on the route from AI-Madinah to Tabuk. Though the caravans had to pass through
the valley of Al-Hijr, the Prophet (peace be upon him) had forbidden the
Muslims to stay in the valley on their journey.
When Ibn
Batutah reached there in the eighth century of Hijrah on his way to
Makkah, he wrote: I have seen the buildings of
Thamud hewed into red mountains; the paintings look so bright as if they have
been put on only recently, and rotten bones of human beings are found in them
even today."
See (E.N. 57 of
Surah Al-Aaraf).
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87-99 Al-Fatiha
is also called, "Seven verses worthy of oft-recitation" And Proclaim
the commandments of Allah publicly and turn away from the Mushrikin
(15:87) We
have indeed bestowed on you the seven oft-repeated verses49 and the
Great Qur'an.50
49. These seven verses which are recited over and over again in every
prescribed salat are the verses of Surah Al- Fatihah.
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1.
(15:88)
Do not even cast your eyes towards the worldly goods We have granted to
different kinds of people, nor grieve over the state they are in,51 but turn your loving
attention to the believers instead,
(15:90)
even as We had sent warning to those who had divided their religion into
fragments;
(15:91)
those who had split up their Qur'an into pieces.52
52. The schismatic were the Jews for they
had split their religion into many parts and caused division in it. They believed
in certain parts and rejected the other parts, and detracted some things from
it and added others to
(15:99) and
worship your Lord until the last moment (of your life) that will most certainly come.53 it. Thus they had been divided into many sectarian
groups, which were opposed to one another.
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