{
  "number": 50,
  "slug": "qaf",
  "name": "Qaf",
  "arabicName": "ق",
  "meaning": "Qaf · The Opening Letter",
  "juz": 26,
  "period": "Makkan",
  "tagline": "RAIN THAT REVIVES & THE HEART THAT RETURNS",
  "overview": "Rain reviving a lifeless landscape answers doubts about resurrection. The chapter moves inward to thought and speech, then toward the final account and the garden’s welcome. It closes with lessons from history, daily remembrance and a reminder delivered without compulsion.",
  "sources": [
    {
      "title": "Arabic text · quranjson (MIT)",
      "url": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/semarketir/quranjson/master/source/surah/surah_50.json"
    },
    {
      "title": "Sahih International · English translation (AlQuran Cloud)",
      "url": "https://alquran.cloud/quran/en.sahih"
    },
    {
      "title": "Word glosses · Quranic Arabic Corpus (GPL-3.0)",
      "url": "https://corpus.quran.com/wordbyword.jsp?chapter=50&verse=6"
    },
    {
      "title": "Word glosses · Quranic Arabic Corpus (GPL-3.0)",
      "url": "https://corpus.quran.com/wordbyword.jsp?chapter=50&verse=38"
    },
    {
      "title": "Word glosses · Quranic Arabic Corpus (GPL-3.0)",
      "url": "https://corpus.quran.com/wordbyword.jsp?chapter=50&verse=13"
    },
    {
      "title": "Word glosses · Quranic Arabic Corpus (GPL-3.0)",
      "url": "https://corpus.quran.com/wordbyword.jsp?chapter=50&verse=4"
    },
    {
      "title": "Word glosses · Quranic Arabic Corpus (GPL-3.0)",
      "url": "https://corpus.quran.com/wordbyword.jsp?chapter=50&verse=16"
    },
    {
      "title": "Word glosses · Quranic Arabic Corpus (GPL-3.0)",
      "url": "https://corpus.quran.com/wordbyword.jsp?chapter=50&verse=1"
    },
    {
      "title": "Word glosses · Quranic Arabic Corpus (GPL-3.0)",
      "url": "https://corpus.quran.com/wordbyword.jsp?chapter=50&verse=29"
    },
    {
      "title": "Word glosses · Quranic Arabic Corpus (GPL-3.0)",
      "url": "https://corpus.quran.com/wordbyword.jsp?chapter=50&verse=19"
    },
    {
      "title": "Word glosses · Quranic Arabic Corpus (GPL-3.0)",
      "url": "https://corpus.quran.com/wordbyword.jsp?chapter=50&verse=33"
    },
    {
      "title": "Word glosses · Quranic Arabic Corpus (GPL-3.0)",
      "url": "https://corpus.quran.com/wordbyword.jsp?chapter=50&verse=26"
    },
    {
      "title": "Word glosses · Quranic Arabic Corpus (GPL-3.0)",
      "url": "https://corpus.quran.com/wordbyword.jsp?chapter=50&verse=9"
    },
    {
      "title": "Word glosses · Quranic Arabic Corpus (GPL-3.0)",
      "url": "https://corpus.quran.com/wordbyword.jsp?chapter=50&verse=36"
    },
    {
      "title": "Word glosses · Quranic Arabic Corpus (GPL-3.0)",
      "url": "https://corpus.quran.com/wordbyword.jsp?chapter=50&verse=22"
    },
    {
      "title": "Word glosses · Quranic Arabic Corpus (GPL-3.0)",
      "url": "https://corpus.quran.com/wordbyword.jsp?chapter=50&verse=44"
    },
    {
      "title": "Word glosses · Quranic Arabic Corpus (GPL-3.0)",
      "url": "https://corpus.quran.com/wordbyword.jsp?chapter=50&verse=41"
    },
    {
      "title": "Surah introduction · Quran.com",
      "url": "https://quran.com/qaf/info"
    },
    {
      "title": "622 CE period boundary · Encyclopaedia Britannica (1911)",
      "url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/Hejira"
    },
    {
      "title": "632 CE period boundary · Encyclopaedia Britannica (1911)",
      "url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/Mahomet"
    },
    {
      "title": "Qaf in the Friday sermon · Muslim 873a",
      "url": "https://sunnah.com/muslim:873a"
    },
    {
      "title": "Knowledge, nearness and recording · Ibn Kathir",
      "url": "https://quran.com/50:16/tafsirs/en-tafisr-ibn-kathir"
    }
  ],
  "verses": [
    {
      "n": 1,
      "arabic": "قٓ ۚ وَٱلْقُرْءَانِ ٱلْمَجِيدِ",
      "translation": "Qaf. By the honored Qur'an..."
    },
    {
      "n": 2,
      "arabic": "بَلْ عَجِبُوٓا۟ أَن جَآءَهُم مُّنذِرٌۭ مِّنْهُمْ فَقَالَ ٱلْكَٰفِرُونَ هَٰذَا شَىْءٌ عَجِيبٌ",
      "translation": "But they wonder that there has come to them a warner from among themselves, and the disbelievers say, \"This is an amazing thing."
    },
    {
      "n": 3,
      "arabic": "أَءِذَا مِتْنَا وَكُنَّا تُرَابًۭا ۖ ذَٰلِكَ رَجْعٌۢ بَعِيدٌۭ",
      "translation": "When we have died and have become dust, [we will return to life]? That is a distant return.\""
    },
    {
      "n": 4,
      "arabic": "قَدْ عَلِمْنَا مَا تَنقُصُ ٱلْأَرْضُ مِنْهُمْ ۖ وَعِندَنَا كِتَٰبٌ حَفِيظٌۢ",
      "translation": "We know what the earth diminishes of them, and with Us is a retaining record."
    },
    {
      "n": 5,
      "arabic": "بَلْ كَذَّبُوا۟ بِٱلْحَقِّ لَمَّا جَآءَهُمْ فَهُمْ فِىٓ أَمْرٍۢ مَّرِيجٍ",
      "translation": "But they denied the truth when it came to them, so they are in a confused condition."
    },
    {
      "n": 6,
      "arabic": "أَفَلَمْ يَنظُرُوٓا۟ إِلَى ٱلسَّمَآءِ فَوْقَهُمْ كَيْفَ بَنَيْنَٰهَا وَزَيَّنَّٰهَا وَمَا لَهَا مِن فُرُوجٍۢ",
      "translation": "Have they not looked at the heaven above them - how We structured it and adorned it and [how] it has no rifts?"
    },
    {
      "n": 7,
      "arabic": "وَٱلْأَرْضَ مَدَدْنَٰهَا وَأَلْقَيْنَا فِيهَا رَوَٰسِىَ وَأَنۢبَتْنَا فِيهَا مِن كُلِّ زَوْجٍۭ بَهِيجٍۢ",
      "translation": "And the earth - We spread it out and cast therein firmly set mountains and made grow therein [something] of every beautiful kind,"
    },
    {
      "n": 8,
      "arabic": "تَبْصِرَةًۭ وَذِكْرَىٰ لِكُلِّ عَبْدٍۢ مُّنِيبٍۢ",
      "translation": "Giving insight and a reminder for every servant who turns [to Allah]."
    },
    {
      "n": 9,
      "arabic": "وَنَزَّلْنَا مِنَ ٱلسَّمَآءِ مَآءًۭ مُّبَٰرَكًۭا فَأَنۢبَتْنَا بِهِۦ جَنَّٰتٍۢ وَحَبَّ ٱلْحَصِيدِ",
      "translation": "And We have sent down blessed rain from the sky and made grow thereby gardens and grain from the harvest"
    },
    {
      "n": 10,
      "arabic": "وَٱلنَّخْلَ بَاسِقَٰتٍۢ لَّهَا طَلْعٌۭ نَّضِيدٌۭ",
      "translation": "And lofty palm trees having fruit arranged in layers -"
    },
    {
      "n": 11,
      "arabic": "رِّزْقًۭا لِّلْعِبَادِ ۖ وَأَحْيَيْنَا بِهِۦ بَلْدَةًۭ مَّيْتًۭا ۚ كَذَٰلِكَ ٱلْخُرُوجُ",
      "translation": "As provision for the servants, and We have given life thereby to a dead land. Thus is the resurrection."
    },
    {
      "n": 12,
      "arabic": "كَذَّبَتْ قَبْلَهُمْ قَوْمُ نُوحٍۢ وَأَصْحَٰبُ ٱلرَّسِّ وَثَمُودُ",
      "translation": "The people of Noah denied before them, and the companions of the well and Thamud"
    },
    {
      "n": 13,
      "arabic": "وَعَادٌۭ وَفِرْعَوْنُ وَإِخْوَٰنُ لُوطٍۢ",
      "translation": "And 'Aad and Pharaoh and the brothers of Lot"
    },
    {
      "n": 14,
      "arabic": "وَأَصْحَٰبُ ٱلْأَيْكَةِ وَقَوْمُ تُبَّعٍۢ ۚ كُلٌّۭ كَذَّبَ ٱلرُّسُلَ فَحَقَّ وَعِيدِ",
      "translation": "And the companions of the thicket and the people of Tubba'. All denied the messengers, so My threat was justly fulfilled."
    },
    {
      "n": 15,
      "arabic": "أَفَعَيِينَا بِٱلْخَلْقِ ٱلْأَوَّلِ ۚ بَلْ هُمْ فِى لَبْسٍۢ مِّنْ خَلْقٍۢ جَدِيدٍۢ",
      "translation": "Did We fail in the first creation? But they are in confusion over a new creation."
    },
    {
      "n": 16,
      "arabic": "وَلَقَدْ خَلَقْنَا ٱلْإِنسَٰنَ وَنَعْلَمُ مَا تُوَسْوِسُ بِهِۦ نَفْسُهُۥ ۖ وَنَحْنُ أَقْرَبُ إِلَيْهِ مِنْ حَبْلِ ٱلْوَرِيدِ",
      "translation": "And We have already created man and know what his soul whispers to him, and We are closer to him than [his] jugular vein"
    },
    {
      "n": 17,
      "arabic": "إِذْ يَتَلَقَّى ٱلْمُتَلَقِّيَانِ عَنِ ٱلْيَمِينِ وَعَنِ ٱلشِّمَالِ قَعِيدٌۭ",
      "translation": "When the two receivers receive, seated on the right and on the left."
    },
    {
      "n": 18,
      "arabic": "مَّا يَلْفِظُ مِن قَوْلٍ إِلَّا لَدَيْهِ رَقِيبٌ عَتِيدٌۭ",
      "translation": "Man does not utter any word except that with him is an observer prepared [to record]."
    },
    {
      "n": 19,
      "arabic": "وَجَآءَتْ سَكْرَةُ ٱلْمَوْتِ بِٱلْحَقِّ ۖ ذَٰلِكَ مَا كُنتَ مِنْهُ تَحِيدُ",
      "translation": "And the intoxication of death will bring the truth; that is what you were trying to avoid."
    },
    {
      "n": 20,
      "arabic": "وَنُفِخَ فِى ٱلصُّورِ ۚ ذَٰلِكَ يَوْمُ ٱلْوَعِيدِ",
      "translation": "And the Horn will be blown. That is the Day of [carrying out] the threat."
    },
    {
      "n": 21,
      "arabic": "وَجَآءَتْ كُلُّ نَفْسٍۢ مَّعَهَا سَآئِقٌۭ وَشَهِيدٌۭ",
      "translation": "And every soul will come, with it a driver and a witness."
    },
    {
      "n": 22,
      "arabic": "لَّقَدْ كُنتَ فِى غَفْلَةٍۢ مِّنْ هَٰذَا فَكَشَفْنَا عَنكَ غِطَآءَكَ فَبَصَرُكَ ٱلْيَوْمَ حَدِيدٌۭ",
      "translation": "[It will be said], \"You were certainly in unmindfulness of this, and We have removed from you your cover, so your sight, this Day, is sharp.\""
    },
    {
      "n": 23,
      "arabic": "وَقَالَ قَرِينُهُۥ هَٰذَا مَا لَدَىَّ عَتِيدٌ",
      "translation": "And his companion, [the angel], will say, \"This [record] is what is with me, prepared.\""
    },
    {
      "n": 24,
      "arabic": "أَلْقِيَا فِى جَهَنَّمَ كُلَّ كَفَّارٍ عَنِيدٍۢ",
      "translation": "[Allah will say], \"Throw into Hell every obstinate disbeliever,"
    },
    {
      "n": 25,
      "arabic": "مَّنَّاعٍۢ لِّلْخَيْرِ مُعْتَدٍۢ مُّرِيبٍ",
      "translation": "Preventer of good, aggressor, and doubter,"
    },
    {
      "n": 26,
      "arabic": "ٱلَّذِى جَعَلَ مَعَ ٱللَّهِ إِلَٰهًا ءَاخَرَ فَأَلْقِيَاهُ فِى ٱلْعَذَابِ ٱلشَّدِيدِ",
      "translation": "Who made [as equal] with Allah another deity; then throw him into the severe punishment.\""
    },
    {
      "n": 27,
      "arabic": "۞ قَالَ قَرِينُهُۥ رَبَّنَا مَآ أَطْغَيْتُهُۥ وَلَٰكِن كَانَ فِى ضَلَٰلٍۭ بَعِيدٍۢ",
      "translation": "His [devil] companion will say, \"Our Lord, I did not make him transgress, but he [himself] was in extreme error.\""
    },
    {
      "n": 28,
      "arabic": "قَالَ لَا تَخْتَصِمُوا۟ لَدَىَّ وَقَدْ قَدَّمْتُ إِلَيْكُم بِٱلْوَعِيدِ",
      "translation": "[Allah] will say, \"Do not dispute before Me, while I had already presented to you the warning."
    },
    {
      "n": 29,
      "arabic": "مَا يُبَدَّلُ ٱلْقَوْلُ لَدَىَّ وَمَآ أَنَا۠ بِظَلَّٰمٍۢ لِّلْعَبِيدِ",
      "translation": "The word will not be changed with Me, and never will I be unjust to the servants.\""
    },
    {
      "n": 30,
      "arabic": "يَوْمَ نَقُولُ لِجَهَنَّمَ هَلِ ٱمْتَلَأْتِ وَتَقُولُ هَلْ مِن مَّزِيدٍۢ",
      "translation": "On the Day We will say to Hell, \"Have you been filled?\" and it will say, \"Are there some more,\""
    },
    {
      "n": 31,
      "arabic": "وَأُزْلِفَتِ ٱلْجَنَّةُ لِلْمُتَّقِينَ غَيْرَ بَعِيدٍ",
      "translation": "And Paradise will be brought near to the righteous, not far,"
    },
    {
      "n": 32,
      "arabic": "هَٰذَا مَا تُوعَدُونَ لِكُلِّ أَوَّابٍ حَفِيظٍۢ",
      "translation": "[It will be said], \"This is what you were promised - for every returner [to Allah] and keeper [of His covenant]"
    },
    {
      "n": 33,
      "arabic": "مَّنْ خَشِىَ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنَ بِٱلْغَيْبِ وَجَآءَ بِقَلْبٍۢ مُّنِيبٍ",
      "translation": "Who feared the Most Merciful unseen and came with a heart returning [in repentance]."
    },
    {
      "n": 34,
      "arabic": "ٱدْخُلُوهَا بِسَلَٰمٍۢ ۖ ذَٰلِكَ يَوْمُ ٱلْخُلُودِ",
      "translation": "Enter it in peace. This is the Day of Eternity.\""
    },
    {
      "n": 35,
      "arabic": "لَهُم مَّا يَشَآءُونَ فِيهَا وَلَدَيْنَا مَزِيدٌۭ",
      "translation": "They will have whatever they wish therein, and with Us is more."
    },
    {
      "n": 36,
      "arabic": "وَكَمْ أَهْلَكْنَا قَبْلَهُم مِّن قَرْنٍ هُمْ أَشَدُّ مِنْهُم بَطْشًۭا فَنَقَّبُوا۟ فِى ٱلْبِلَٰدِ هَلْ مِن مَّحِيصٍ",
      "translation": "And how many a generation before them did We destroy who were greater than them in [striking] power and had explored throughout the lands. Is there any place of escape?"
    },
    {
      "n": 37,
      "arabic": "إِنَّ فِى ذَٰلِكَ لَذِكْرَىٰ لِمَن كَانَ لَهُۥ قَلْبٌ أَوْ أَلْقَى ٱلسَّمْعَ وَهُوَ شَهِيدٌۭ",
      "translation": "Indeed in that is a reminder for whoever has a heart or who listens while he is present [in mind]."
    },
    {
      "n": 38,
      "arabic": "وَلَقَدْ خَلَقْنَا ٱلسَّمَٰوَٰتِ وَٱلْأَرْضَ وَمَا بَيْنَهُمَا فِى سِتَّةِ أَيَّامٍۢ وَمَا مَسَّنَا مِن لُّغُوبٍۢ",
      "translation": "And We did certainly create the heavens and earth and what is between them in six days, and there touched Us no weariness."
    },
    {
      "n": 39,
      "arabic": "فَٱصْبِرْ عَلَىٰ مَا يَقُولُونَ وَسَبِّحْ بِحَمْدِ رَبِّكَ قَبْلَ طُلُوعِ ٱلشَّمْسِ وَقَبْلَ ٱلْغُرُوبِ",
      "translation": "So be patient, [O Muhammad], over what they say and exalt [Allah] with praise of your Lord before the rising of the sun and before its setting,"
    },
    {
      "n": 40,
      "arabic": "وَمِنَ ٱلَّيْلِ فَسَبِّحْهُ وَأَدْبَٰرَ ٱلسُّجُودِ",
      "translation": "And [in part] of the night exalt Him and after prostration."
    },
    {
      "n": 41,
      "arabic": "وَٱسْتَمِعْ يَوْمَ يُنَادِ ٱلْمُنَادِ مِن مَّكَانٍۢ قَرِيبٍۢ",
      "translation": "And listen on the Day when the Caller will call out from a place that is near -"
    },
    {
      "n": 42,
      "arabic": "يَوْمَ يَسْمَعُونَ ٱلصَّيْحَةَ بِٱلْحَقِّ ۚ ذَٰلِكَ يَوْمُ ٱلْخُرُوجِ",
      "translation": "The Day they will hear the blast [of the Horn] in truth. That is the Day of Emergence [from the graves]."
    },
    {
      "n": 43,
      "arabic": "إِنَّا نَحْنُ نُحْىِۦ وَنُمِيتُ وَإِلَيْنَا ٱلْمَصِيرُ",
      "translation": "Indeed, it is We who give life and cause death, and to Us is the destination"
    },
    {
      "n": 44,
      "arabic": "يَوْمَ تَشَقَّقُ ٱلْأَرْضُ عَنْهُمْ سِرَاعًۭا ۚ ذَٰلِكَ حَشْرٌ عَلَيْنَا يَسِيرٌۭ",
      "translation": "On the Day the earth breaks away from them [and they emerge] rapidly; that is a gathering easy for Us."
    },
    {
      "n": 45,
      "arabic": "نَّحْنُ أَعْلَمُ بِمَا يَقُولُونَ ۖ وَمَآ أَنتَ عَلَيْهِم بِجَبَّارٍۢ ۖ فَذَكِّرْ بِٱلْقُرْءَانِ مَن يَخَافُ وَعِيدِ",
      "translation": "We are most knowing of what they say, and you are not over them a tyrant. But remind by the Qur'an whoever fears My threat."
    }
  ],
  "glosses": [
    [
      "Qaf.",
      "By the Quran,",
      "the Glorious."
    ],
    [
      "Nay,",
      "they wonder",
      "that",
      "has come to them",
      "a warner",
      "from them.",
      "So say",
      "the disbelievers,",
      "\"This",
      "(is) a thing",
      "amazing."
    ],
    [
      "What! When",
      "we die",
      "and have become",
      "dust.",
      "That",
      "(is) a return",
      "far.\""
    ],
    [
      "Certainly,",
      "We know",
      "what",
      "diminishes",
      "the earth",
      "of them,",
      "and with Us",
      "(is) a Book",
      "guarded."
    ],
    [
      "Nay,",
      "they denied",
      "the truth",
      "when",
      "it came (to) them,",
      "so they",
      "(are) in",
      "a state",
      "confused."
    ],
    [
      "Then do not",
      "they look",
      "at",
      "the sky",
      "above them -",
      "how",
      "We structured it",
      "and adorned it",
      "and not",
      "for it",
      "any",
      "rifts?"
    ],
    [
      "And the earth,",
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      "therein",
      "firmly set mountains",
      "and We made to grow",
      "therein",
      "of",
      "every",
      "kind",
      "beautiful,"
    ],
    [
      "Giving insight",
      "and a reminder",
      "for every",
      "slave",
      "who turns."
    ],
    [
      "And We have sent down",
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      "water",
      "blessed,",
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      "gardens",
      "and grain",
      "(for) the harvest,"
    ],
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      "And the palms trees",
      "tall -",
      "for it",
      "(are) layers",
      "arranged."
    ],
    [
      "A provision",
      "for the slaves,",
      "and We give life",
      "therewith",
      "(to) a land",
      "dead.",
      "Thus",
      "(will be) the coming forth."
    ],
    [
      "Denied",
      "before them",
      "(the) people",
      "(of) Nuh",
      "and (the) companions",
      "(of) Ar-Raas",
      "and Thamud,"
    ],
    [
      "And Aad",
      "and Firaun",
      "and (the) brothers",
      "(of) Lut,"
    ],
    [
      "And (the) companions",
      "(of) the wood",
      "and (the) people",
      "(of) Tubba.",
      "All",
      "denied",
      "the Messengers,",
      "so was fulfilled",
      "My Threat."
    ],
    [
      "Were We then tired",
      "with the creation",
      "the first?",
      "Nay,",
      "they",
      "(are) in",
      "doubt",
      "about",
      "a creation",
      "new."
    ],
    [
      "And certainly",
      "We created",
      "man",
      "and We know",
      "what",
      "whispers",
      "to him",
      "his soul,",
      "and We",
      "(are) nearer",
      "to him",
      "than",
      "(the) cord",
      "(of) the jugular vein."
    ],
    [
      "When",
      "receive",
      "the two receivers",
      "on",
      "the right",
      "and on",
      "the left",
      "seated."
    ],
    [
      "Not",
      "he utters",
      "any",
      "word",
      "but",
      "with him",
      "(is) an observer",
      "ready."
    ],
    [
      "And will come",
      "(the) stupor",
      "(of) death",
      "in truth,",
      "\"That",
      "(is) what",
      "you were",
      "[from it]",
      "avoiding.\""
    ],
    [
      "And will be blown",
      "[in]",
      "the trumpet.",
      "That",
      "(is the) Day",
      "(of) the Warning."
    ],
    [
      "And will come",
      "every",
      "soul,",
      "with it",
      "a driver",
      "and a witness."
    ],
    [
      "\"Certainly",
      "you were",
      "in",
      "heedlessness",
      "of",
      "this.",
      "So We have removed",
      "from you",
      "your cover,",
      "so your sight",
      "today",
      "(is) sharp.\""
    ],
    [
      "And (will) say",
      "his companion,",
      "\"This",
      "(is) what",
      "(is) with me",
      "ready.\""
    ],
    [
      "\"Throw",
      "in (to)",
      "Hell",
      "every",
      "disbeliever",
      "stubborn,"
    ],
    [
      "Forbidder",
      "of good,",
      "transgressor",
      "doubter,"
    ],
    [
      "Who",
      "made",
      "with",
      "Allah",
      "a god",
      "another;",
      "so throw him",
      "in(to)",
      "the punishment",
      "the severe.\""
    ],
    [
      "Will say",
      "his companion,",
      "\"Our Lord,",
      "not",
      "I made him transgress,",
      "but",
      "he was",
      "in",
      "error",
      "far.\""
    ],
    [
      "He will say,",
      "\"(Do) not",
      "dispute",
      "(in) My presence",
      "and indeed,",
      "I sent forth",
      "to you",
      "the Warning."
    ],
    [
      "Not",
      "will be changed",
      "the word",
      "with Me,",
      "and not",
      "I Am",
      "unjust",
      "to My slaves.\""
    ],
    [
      "(The) Day",
      "We will say",
      "to Hell,",
      "\"Are",
      "you filled?\"",
      "And it will say,",
      "\"Are",
      "(there) any",
      "more?\""
    ],
    [
      "And will be brought near",
      "the Paradise",
      "to the righteous,",
      "not",
      "far."
    ],
    [
      "\"This",
      "(is) what",
      "you were promised,",
      "for everyone",
      "who turns",
      "(and) who keeps,"
    ],
    [
      "Who",
      "feared",
      "the Most Gracious",
      "in the unseen,",
      "and came",
      "with a heart",
      "returning."
    ],
    [
      "Enter it",
      "in peace.",
      "That",
      "(is) a Day",
      "(of) Eternity.\""
    ],
    [
      "For them",
      "whatever",
      "they wish",
      "therein",
      "and with Us",
      "(is) more."
    ],
    [
      "And how many",
      "We destroyed",
      "before them",
      "of",
      "a generation,",
      "they",
      "(were) stronger",
      "than them",
      "(in) power.",
      "so they explored",
      "throughout",
      "the lands.",
      "Is (there)",
      "any",
      "place of escape?"
    ],
    [
      "Indeed,",
      "in",
      "that",
      "surely, is a reminder",
      "for (one) who,",
      "is -",
      "for him",
      "a heart",
      "or",
      "gives",
      "ear",
      "while he",
      "(is) a witness."
    ],
    [
      "And certainly,",
      "We created",
      "the heavens",
      "and the earth",
      "and whatever",
      "(is) between both of them",
      "in",
      "six",
      "periods,",
      "and (did) not",
      "touch Us",
      "any",
      "fatigue."
    ],
    [
      "So be patient",
      "over",
      "what",
      "they say",
      "and glorify",
      "(the) praise",
      "(of) your Lord,",
      "before",
      "(the) rising",
      "(of) the sun",
      "and before",
      "the setting,"
    ],
    [
      "And of",
      "the night",
      "glorify Him",
      "and after",
      "the prostration."
    ],
    [
      "And listen!",
      "(The) Day",
      "will call",
      "the caller",
      "from",
      "a place",
      "near,"
    ],
    [
      "(The) Day",
      "they will hear",
      "the Blast",
      "in truth.",
      "That",
      "(is the) Day",
      "(of) coming forth."
    ],
    [
      "Indeed, We",
      "[We]",
      "[We] give life",
      "and [We] cause death,",
      "and to Us",
      "(is) the final return."
    ],
    [
      "(The) Day",
      "will split",
      "the earth",
      "from them,",
      "hurrying.",
      "That",
      "(is) a gathering",
      "for Us",
      "easy."
    ],
    [
      "We",
      "know best",
      "[of] what",
      "they say,",
      "and not",
      "(are) you",
      "over them",
      "the one to compel.",
      "But remind",
      "with the Quran",
      "whoever",
      "fears",
      "My threat."
    ]
  ],
  "glossNote": "Some Corpus glosses repeat a complete English phrase across adjacent Arabic words. This edition separates those into individual word meanings using the same page’s Arabic and grammar, so word hover does not repeat a whole phrase. Original glosses and every adjustment are retained in the source audit; idiomatic expressions may include a literal component gloss.",
  "titles": [
    "Qaf and the glorious Quran",
    "A warner from among them",
    "The question of returning from dust",
    "Nothing lost from knowledge",
    "Truth met with confusion",
    "Look at the sky",
    "Earth, mountains and growth",
    "A reminder for the returning heart",
    "Blessed rain",
    "The tall date palms",
    "Revival as a sign of resurrection",
    "Earlier denials remembered",
    "Ad, Pharaoh and Lot’s people",
    "The warning across generations",
    "Creation is not exhaustion",
    "The inward whisper is known",
    "The two receivers",
    "Every spoken word",
    "The truth of death",
    "The promised trumpet",
    "A driver and a witness",
    "The covering removed",
    "The record presented",
    "Rebellion brought to account",
    "Obstructing good",
    "A partner assigned to Allah",
    "An attempted denial of responsibility",
    "The warning was already given",
    "No injustice in the judgment",
    "Is there more?",
    "The garden brought near",
    "For the one who returns",
    "Reverence unseen, a returning heart",
    "Enter in peace",
    "What they desire, and more",
    "Powerful generations without refuge",
    "Listen with a present heart",
    "Creation without weariness",
    "Patience before sunrise and sunset",
    "Praise in the night",
    "The call from near",
    "The day of coming forth",
    "Life, death and the return",
    "The earth opens for the gathering",
    "Remind through the Quran"
  ],
  "notes": [
    "The chapter takes its name from the opening letter Qaf, followed by an oath by the glorious Quran. The text does not explain the letter here. Attention is directed immediately toward revelation and the message about to unfold.",
    "The hearers are astonished that a warner has come from among them. Familiarity with the messenger becomes part of their objection. The verse introduces a question that recurs in revelation: why should shared humanity prevent someone from carrying a serious warning?",
    "Their difficulty centres on returning after death and becoming dust. Resurrection appears remote from what they expect. The chapter will answer by directing attention to knowledge, the first creation and the revival already visible in a landscape after rain.",
    "What the earth takes from human bodies is not lost from divine knowledge. The recording Book answers the assumption that dispersal makes return impossible. The verse presents preservation of knowledge as part of the response to the preceding doubt.",
    "Denial of the truth leaves the speakers in confusion. The verse describes a condition produced by rejection rather than offering their uncertainty as a final answer. The surrounding argument invites a more attentive look at the world before them.",
    "The sky becomes the first object of observation. Construction, beauty and the absence of rifts are presented as signs worth noticing. The question turns the discussion from distant speculation toward the ordered creation already within the listener’s experience.",
    "Earth, mountains and varied growth extend the invitation downward from the sky. The landscape is both stable and productive. Its abundance provides a setting for thought, preparing the later comparison between renewed land and the resurrection people find difficult to imagine.",
    "The signs are described as insight and a reminder for a servant who turns back. Observation is joined with a receptive disposition. Seeing the landscape involves more than looking; it asks whether the viewer is willing to be reminded.",
    "Blessed water brings gardens and grain into growth. The verse makes provision visible through a familiar transformation. Rain is not only scenery here: it becomes part of the chapter’s reasoning about the renewal of what had seemed without life.",
    "The tall date palms and their ordered clusters give the scene a distinctive detail. Nourishment appears within a beautiful structure. The reader is invited to notice both what sustains human life and the created form in which that provision arrives.",
    "The revived land completes the comparison: bringing life to barren ground becomes a sign pointing toward resurrection. The text states the connection explicitly. Everyday provision and the larger promise are placed within the same account of divine power.",
    "Noah’s people, the dwellers of al-Rass and Thamud enter as earlier examples of denial. The chapter names them without giving a full history. Uncertain locations or dates should not be supplied merely to make this brief sequence appear complete.",
    "Ad, Pharaoh and the people of Lot continue the recollection. Different societies are joined by their response to messengers. The verse does not identify Pharaoh’s dynasty or a surviving burial, so those details cannot be inferred from this mention alone.",
    "The dwellers of the wood and the people of Tubba complete the sequence. Its unifying theme is rejection of messengers and the consequence that followed. The passage supplies a moral comparison rather than a fully dated chronology of ancient kingdoms.",
    "The question returns to creation itself: did bringing life into being exhaust the Creator? Doubt about a new creation is placed beside the existence of the first. The argument asks listeners to reconsider what their own beginning already implies.",
    "Humanity’s Creator knows even the whisper within the self. The image of nearness makes hidden thought impossible to treat as beyond knowledge. It is theological language about divine awareness and presence, not a bodily portrait or anatomical location for Allah.",
    "The two receivers appear on the right and left, introducing the recording of conduct. Ibn Kathir identifies them as angels. Their role concerns witness and record; the reader is not given a visual description from which to draw their forms.",
    "Every utterance is accompanied by a ready observer. Speech that feels momentary is placed within a lasting account. The verse encourages attention to what words do, without requiring an imagined portrait of the unseen beings associated with their recording.",
    "The truth of death arrives despite attempts to turn away from it. The verse brings the discussion from abstract doubt to an unavoidable human encounter. Its purpose is to awaken seriousness about life, not to predict an individual’s final moment.",
    "The trumpet announces the day that had been warned of. The scene passes from individual death to the wider gathering. No earthly date is supplied, and the sound belongs to the chapter’s theological portrayal of the promised future.",
    "Every soul comes with a driver and a witness. The pairing gives the gathering a sense of direction and testimony rather than aimless arrival. The passage presents accountability as personal even within an event that includes everyone.",
    "A covering is removed and sight becomes sharp. Earlier heedlessness is contrasted with recognition that can no longer be avoided. The image asks the present reader what might already be visible if distraction and refusal were set aside.",
    "The companion presents what is ready, continuing the scene of testimony. The emphasis falls on an account available for judgment. The brief verse does not invite invented details about the record’s physical appearance or the biography of its unseen bearer.",
    "The judgment names persistent rebellion and ingratitude. Its force belongs to the divine account described in the passage. It should not be transformed into permission for people to punish others on the basis of their own labels or accusations.",
    "Obstructing good, transgression and doubt deepen the description of the conduct being judged. The passage connects inward rejection with outward harm. It prevents the scene from being read simply as a contest of appearances or claims without reference to deeds.",
    "Assigning another god alongside Allah is explicitly named within the judgment. The theological issue of allegiance remains central alongside the previous moral description. The verse’s command belongs to the unseen scene and is not a mandate for human violence.",
    "The companion denies having compelled the person into rebellion. Blame is contested, but the attempted distancing does not erase the life under review. The passage examines responsibility even where influence and association have been part of the story.",
    "The dispute is stopped because warning had already been given. The scene does not allow argument after the fact to replace the opportunity that existed earlier. Its address to the living reader is to recognise that opportunity while it remains.",
    "The judgment is not altered, and injustice toward the servants is denied. This statement places the preceding scene within the Quran’s affirmation of divine justice. Its finality should be read together with the warning and responsibility already described.",
    "Hell is addressed and asks whether more will come. The startling exchange conveys the gravity of the judgment scene. It belongs to the chapter’s language about the hereafter, not a physical location whose dimensions can be mapped on earth.",
    "The garden is brought close to those who were mindful. After the preceding warnings, distance gives way to welcome. The verse changes the emotional direction of the passage, showing that the promised future also contains nearness and peace.",
    "The welcome is associated with repeatedly returning and keeping watch over one’s responsibility. The promise therefore recognises a continuing orientation of life, not merely an isolated claim. The vocabulary of return prepares for the heart described in the next verse.",
    "Reverence for the Merciful in the unseen is joined with a heart that returns. Faithfulness is not dependent on being watched by other people. The verse places inward sincerity beside hope in the One explicitly named through mercy.",
    "The invitation to enter in peace gathers safety and permanence into a brief welcome. The earlier anxiety of judgment gives way to an enduring home. This is the chapter’s promised garden, represented symbolically rather than as an earthly destination.",
    "What they wish for is present, with more still held in divine generosity. The promise exceeds a closed inventory of rewards. The verse leaves room for abundance beyond the listener’s present imagination, without asking the reader to invent its unseen details.",
    "Earlier generations possessed greater strength and ranged through the lands, yet found no refuge from judgment. The historical reminder challenges confidence based on reach and power. It asks what those achievements can secure when deeper responsibility is neglected.",
    "The reminder benefits one who has a receptive heart or listens with full attention. Hearing becomes an active presence rather than background sound. The verse offers a way to approach the chapter itself: bring attention to what is being said.",
    "Creation of heaven and earth is affirmed without weariness touching Allah. The verse rejects any implication that creating exhausts divine power. Its theological claim should not be flattened into an ordinary human working schedule or an imagined need for recovery.",
    "Patience with what is said is joined to praise before sunrise and sunset. The messenger is given a rhythm of worship within opposition. The instruction directs energy toward steadfast remembrance rather than allowing hostile speech to determine every response.",
    "Praise continues into the night and after prostration. Remembrance extends beyond one moment of formal attention, shaping the transitions of the day. The quiet instruction follows the vast scenes of judgment with a practice grounded in repeated devotion.",
    "The listener is told to attend to the call from a near place. The verse brings immediacy to what may have seemed distant. It does not identify a present-day landmark for the caller or offer coordinates for the gathering.",
    "The cry is heard in truth, and the day of coming forth arrives. Earlier doubts about return meet the reality of resurrection within the narrative. The chapter’s promised future is presented as disclosure, not merely as another disputed opinion.",
    "Life, death and the final return are placed with Allah. The concise declaration gathers the chapter’s argument from creation through judgment. Human beings do not independently possess their beginning or their end, and their journey is not described as purposeless.",
    "The earth opens and people emerge swiftly for the gathering. What seemed difficult to the original questioners is declared easy for Allah. The scene completes the contrast between limited human expectation and the power affirmed throughout the chapter.",
    "The closing verse defines the messenger’s work as reminding through the Quran, while denying him the role of compelling belief. Divine knowledge encompasses what opponents say. The reader is left with an invitation to receive the warning attentively."
  ],
  "sections": [
    {
      "start": 1,
      "end": 15,
      "title": "The earth that lives again",
      "summary": "Rain, gardens and palms answer the doubt that life can return after death.",
      "reflection": "What can renewal in the world teach you about the limits of your expectations?"
    },
    {
      "start": 16,
      "end": 29,
      "title": "What the whisper and the word leave behind",
      "summary": "Inner thought, recorded speech and the final account bring responsibility close to each person.",
      "reflection": "Which words deserve greater care before they leave your mouth?"
    },
    {
      "start": 30,
      "end": 35,
      "title": "Enter the garden in peace",
      "summary": "The warning is followed by a welcome for the returning heart and generosity beyond expectation.",
      "reflection": "What does it mean to keep returning with a sincere heart?"
    },
    {
      "start": 36,
      "end": 45,
      "title": "History, patient praise and the reminder",
      "summary": "Past power offers no refuge; present attention, worship and an unforced reminder remain the task.",
      "reflection": "How can patience make room for a message to be heard?"
    }
  ],
  "timeline": [
    {
      "title": "Before 622 CE · Makkan classification",
      "year": 622,
      "body": "Qaf is classified as Makkan. The date is the Hijrah boundary for that earlier period, not an exact revelation year.",
      "source": "https://quran.com/qaf/info"
    },
    {
      "title": "An undated remembrance · learned from Friday sermons",
      "year": null,
      "body": "Umm Hisham bint Harithah reports learning Qaf from the Prophet’s recurring Friday recitation. The report records how the chapter was heard and remembered, not when it was first revealed.",
      "source": "https://sunnah.com/muslim:873a"
    },
    {
      "title": "Earlier peoples · a thematic remembrance",
      "year": null,
      "body": "Verses 12–14 and 36 recall earlier communities and the limits of their strength. They provide no secure calendar dates for the named peoples or archaeological identifications.",
      "source": "https://sacred-texts.com/isl/pick/050.htm"
    },
    {
      "title": "The coming forth · an undated promised day",
      "year": null,
      "body": "Resurrection and the gathering complete the chapter’s argument. They are theological future events, not milestones with calculable earthly dates.",
      "source": "https://sacred-texts.com/isl/pick/050.htm"
    }
  ],
  "places": [
    {
      "id": "makkah",
      "name": "Makkah · the broad revelation setting",
      "body": "The Makkan classification provides the chapter’s general setting. The marker is city-level orientation and does not identify the place of a specific conversation or first recitation.",
      "lat": 21.4225,
      "lon": 39.8262,
      "source": "https://quran.com/qaf/info",
      "image": 0
    },
    {
      "id": "rain-land",
      "name": "A revived landscape · rain, grain and palms",
      "body": "Verses 9–11 present a land restored by water as a sign of resurrection. The landscape is an illustrative setting rather than a claim to a particular oasis named by the text.",
      "source": "https://sacred-texts.com/isl/pick/050.htm",
      "image": 0
    },
    {
      "id": "garden",
      "name": "The garden brought near",
      "body": "The peaceful welcome in verses 31–35 concerns the hereafter. Its symbolic landscape has no earthly coordinate and does not claim to reconstruct an ancient royal garden.",
      "source": "https://sacred-texts.com/isl/pick/050.htm",
      "image": 2
    },
    {
      "id": "earlier-lands",
      "name": "The lands of earlier generations",
      "body": "Verse 36 recalls powerful peoples ranging through the lands without finding final refuge. This broad image does not establish a route, a dated ruin or a specific archaeological monument.",
      "source": "https://sacred-texts.com/isl/pick/050.htm",
      "image": 3
    }
  ],
  "people": [
    {
      "id": "umm-hisham",
      "title": "Umm Hisham · a listener who learned by hearing",
      "body": "Muslim 873a preserves her recollection of learning Qaf from the Prophet’s Friday sermons. Her report shows the chapter’s place in communal listening and memory. It does not provide a year for the initial revelation.",
      "url": "https://sunnah.com/muslim:873a",
      "label": "Read Muslim 873a"
    },
    {
      "id": "recorders",
      "title": "The receivers · recording in the unseen",
      "body": "Verses 17–18 describe a record of speech; Ibn Kathir identifies the receivers as angels. Their role is explained through text and commentary, without literal portraits or invented names.",
      "url": "https://quran.com/50:16/tafsirs/en-tafisr-ibn-kathir",
      "label": "Read the commentary on recording"
    },
    {
      "id": "returning-heart",
      "title": "The person who returns · faith beyond public display",
      "body": "The garden’s welcome is directed toward one who repeatedly turns back, reveres the Merciful unseen and brings a returning heart. The description locates sincerity within a continuing way of life.",
      "verse": 33
    },
    {
      "id": "earlier-peoples",
      "title": "Earlier communities · strength was not final security",
      "body": "The named peoples in verses 12–14 appear as warnings about rejecting messengers. Their mention does not supply authenticated graves, exact years or a general judgment about modern populations bearing similar names.",
      "verse": 12
    }
  ],
  "history": [
    {
      "title": "A Makkan argument for resurrection",
      "body": "Quran.com’s introduction identifies resurrection, revelation and prophethood as the chapter’s central disputed questions. The reader uses that broad setting without inventing a dated debate or named group of questioners.",
      "source": "https://quran.com/qaf/info"
    },
    {
      "title": "A living practice of recitation",
      "body": "Umm Hisham’s report describes learning the chapter through repeated Friday sermons. Reception and transmission are important parts of its history, while remaining distinct from the occasion of first revelation.",
      "source": "https://sunnah.com/muslim:873a"
    },
    {
      "title": "Nearness and knowledge in commentary",
      "body": "Ibn Kathir discusses divine knowledge and interprets the nearness in verse 16 through the attendant angels; he also records a knowledge-based explanation. Neither is a claim that Allah has a bodily location within a person.",
      "source": "https://quran.com/50:16/tafsirs/en-tafisr-ibn-kathir"
    },
    {
      "title": "A reminder delivered without compulsion",
      "body": "Verse 45 ends by denying the messenger a role as compeller over the hearers and directing him to remind through the Quran. This instruction frames how the chapter’s grave warnings are communicated.",
      "source": "https://sacred-texts.com/isl/pick/050.htm"
    }
  ],
  "revelationNote": "Makkan. The 622 CE marker is a period boundary, not the date of a particular verse. The Friday-sermon report describes later recitation and remembrance; earlier peoples and the final gathering remain undated."
}