[1] (In the name of God, Most Gracious, Most Merciful)

The meaning

More explanation

[2] 1. [I swear] by the severe heat of [the region of] the noon-time^a!

[3] 2. And [by] the night when it shall be ‘quiet and everlasting’!

[4] 3. Your Lord has not forsaken you, [Mohammed], nor has He hated you.^b

[5] 4. And surely [what We have prepared for you] for the Next Life is far better for you than [all that is in] the first [life of the World.]

[6] 5. And assuredly, [in the Next Life] your Lord [O Mohammed] will grant you [the favor of honor and intercession], and you will be well-contented.

^{1 a} He means by it the long day which has been explained in soora (or chapter) 92 and other chapters.

^{3 b} That was when the revelation was suspended from the Prophet for fifteen days, so the associaters said mocking and gloating about the Prophet: “Mohammed, your Lord has forsaken and hated you!”

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[7] 6. Did He not find you an orphan, and shelter you^a?

[8] 7. Did He not find you astray [from the religion], and guide you?^b

[9] 8. Did He not know [that] you were ‘poor and responsible about a family’, and enrich you [by trading and by the wealth of your wife Khadijah]?

^{6 a} It means: He gave you shelter with your grandfather Abdul-muttalib, then when he died, He gave you shelter with your uncle Abu Talib.

^{7 b} To His religion by revelation and inspiration.

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[10] 9. Therefore, as for the orphan: oppress him not^a.

[11] 10. As for the beggar: scold him not^b.

[12] 11. And as for your Lord's favor^c [on you]: 'rehearse and proclaim' it [to people.]^d

^{9 a} With any annoying word, if he asks of you or wrangles with you.

^{10 b} If he insists on his begging and speaks much.

^{11 c} It is the message which God favored him with.

This is confirmed by His saying – be glorified – in the Quran 52: 29, which means:

(Therefore [O Mohammed], admonish [your people with the Quran]; for with your Lord's blessing [making you, an apostle] you are neither a soothsayer nor mad [as do they claim.])

It means: With the revelation and the message which God has given you, you are neither soothsayer as they claim, nor mad or possessed as they say.

^{11 d} The meaning:

Proclaim your message and tell people and do not conceal your mission.

By God's help, the interpretation of the soora 93 of the Quran is completed;

So (praise be to God: Lord of the worlds.)

[1] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

[2] 1. وَالضُّحَى

[3] 2. وَاللَّيْلِ إِذَا سَجَى