Chapter 103

AL-ASR (THE DECLINING DAY, EVENTIDE, THE EPOCH) Total Verses: 3 Revealed At: MAKKA

In the name of Allah, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful.

103.001 Y: By (the Token of) Time (through the ages),

P: By the declining day,

S: I swear by the time,

103.002 Y: Verily Man is in loss,

P: Lo! man is a state of loss,

S: Most surely man is in loss,

103.003 Y: Except such as have Faith, and do righteous deeds, and (join together) in the mutual teaching of Truth, and of Patience and Constancy.

P: Save those who believe and do good works, and exhort one another to truth and exhort one another to endurance.

S: Except those who believe and do good, and enjoin on each other truth, and enjoin on each other patience.