Al-Kafirun

  Sura 109 of the Quran  
الكافرون
Al-Kāfirūn
The Disbelievers

Arabic text · English translation


Classification Meccan
Other names Atheists, The Unbelievers
Position Juzʼ 30
Number of verses 6

Sūrat al-Kāfirūn (Arabic: سورة الكافرون, "The Unbelievers") is the name of the 109th Sura (chapter) of the Qur'an.

Like many of the shorter surahs, the surah of the Unbelievers takes the form of an invocation, telling the reader something they must ask for or say aloud. Here, the passage asks one to keep in mind the separation between belief and unbelief both in the past and the present, ending with the often cited line "To you your religion, and to me mine". Although some view this as an argument against religious intolerance, others see it as a more time-specific revelation, warning the newly founded Muslim minority in Mecca against being induced (by the Quraish majority) to collude with disbelievers. "Wahb bin Munabbih has related that the people of Quraish said to Allah's' Messenger: 'If you like we would enter your faith for a year and you would enter our faith for a year.'"(Abd bin Humaid, Ibn Abi Hatim). [1] In this latter view, from time to time the Quraish leaders would visit Muhammad with different proposals of compromise so that if he accepted one of them the dispute between them would be brought to an end.

It was revealed in Mecca when the Muslims were persecuted by the polytheists of Mecca.

Hadith

As for the esteem in which Muhammad held this surah, it can be judged from the following few hadith:

References

  1. The Noble Quran https://quran.com/109
  2. Several traditions on this subject with a little variation in wording have been related by Imam Ahmad, Tirmidhi, Al-Nasa'i, Ibn Majah, Ibn Hibban, Ibn Marduyah from ibn Umar.
  3. Abu Bakr Al-Bazzar, Al-Tabarani, Ibn Marduyah
  4. Abu Ya'la, Al-Tabarani
  5. Al-Bayhaqi in Ash-Shu'ab
  6. Abu Dawud: 4396 & Hakim ibn Hizam 1/565
  7. (Musnad Ahmad, Abu Dawud, Tirmidhi, Al-Nasa'i, Ibn Abi Shaibah, Hakim ibn Hizam, Ibn Marduyah, Al-Bayhaqi in Ash-Shuab).
  8. (Musnad Ahmad, Al-Tabarani).
  9. Imam Ahmad recorded from ibn Umar

9- Kafirun Suresi

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