Surah Al-Mu'minun: The Believers | Quran Study Guide

Ta'awwudh · Seeking Refuge

أَعُوذُ بِاللَّهِ مِنَ الشَّيْطَانِ الرَّجِيمِ

A'udhu billahi min ash-shaytani ar-rajim. I seek refuge in Allah from Satan, the accursed.

The Name · Bismillah

بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَٰنِ الرَّحِيمِ

Bismillahi ar-Rahmani ar-Rahim. In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.

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The Surah · In Two Parts

One hundred and eighteen verses, read in two sittings. The surah opens with a verdict already delivered, in the past tense, before any argument is made. The believers have succeeded. Then it lists what those men actually do, moves through the stages a human being is built in, runs the same objection past three different nations in three different centuries, and ends at the edge of a grave with a request that is refused. It closes by asking the reader whether he thought he was created for no reason.

Part One

Verses 1 to 50

The Ones Who Have Already Succeeded.

The qualities of the successful, listed plainly and framed on both sides by the prayer. The stages a man is made in. Water sent down in measure. And Nuh, and the generations after him, meeting the same objection every time.

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Verses 51 to 118

Send Me Back.

The command to the messengers, the community that cut itself into pieces, wealth and children misread as approval, the hearts that fear while they give, the man at death asking for a return, the scales, and the question that ends the surah.

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آمِين

Prepared with discipline · Ameen