Al-Qur'an Surah Ad-Duhaa Verse 1

Mufti Taqi Usmani

I swear by the forenoon,

Dr. Mustafa Khattab, the Clear Quran

By the morning sunlight,

Ruwwad Translation Center

By the morning brightness,

A. J. Arberry

By the white forenoon

Abdul Haleem

By the morning brightness

Abdul Majid Daryabadi

By the morning brightness,

Abdullah Yusuf Ali

By the Glorious Morning Light,

Abul Ala Maududi

By the bright forenoon,

Ahmed Ali

I CALL TO witness the early hours of morning,

Ahmed Raza Khan

By oath of the late morning,

Ali Quli Qarai

By the morning brightness,

Ali Ünal

By the forenoon,

Amatul Rahman Omar

I call to witness the growing brightness of the forenoon,

English Literal

And/by the sunrise/daybreak .

Faridul Haque

By oath of the late morning,

Hamid S. Aziz

By the glorious morning light!

Hilali & Khan

By the forenoon (after sun-rise);

Maulana Mohammad Ali

And the night when it is still! --

Mohammad Habib Shakir

I swear by the early hours of the day,

Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall

By the morning hours

Muhammad Sarwar

By the midday brightness

Qaribullah & Darwish

By the midmorning,

Safi-ur-Rahman al-Mubarakpuri

By the forenoon.

Wahiduddin Khan

By the glorious morning light;

Talal Itani

By the morning light.

Tafsir jalalayn

By the forenoon, that is to say, the first part of the day or all of it,

Tafseer Ibn Kathir

The Reason for the Revelation of Surah Ad-Duha

Imam Ahmad recorded from Jundub that he said,

"The Prophet became ill, so he did not stand for prayer for a night or two. Then a woman came and said,

`O Muhammad! I think that your devil has finally left you.'

So Allah revealed,

وَالضُّحَى


وَالَّيْلِ إِذَا سَجَى

مَا وَدَّعَكَ رَبُّكَ وَمَا قَلَى

By the forenoon.

By the night when it darkens.

Your Lord has neither forsaken you nor hates you.

Al-Bukhari, Muslim, At-Tirmidhi, An-Nasa'i, Ibn Abi Hatim and Ibn Jarir, all recorded this Hadith.

This Jundub (who narrated it) is Ibn `Abdullah Al-Bajali Al-`Alaqi. In a narration from Al-Aswad bin Qays, he said that he heard Jundub say that Jibril was slow in coming to the Messenger of Allah . So the idolators said,

"Muhammad's Lord has abandoned him."

So Allah revealed,

وَالضُّحَى




وَاللَّيْلِ إِذَا سَجَى