✦ AT A GLANCE ✦
الطور
At-Tur
✦ Why this name
The Mount — at-Tur, Mount Sinai, sworn by in the first verse.
✦ When it came
Meccan. Jubayr ibn Mut'im رضي الله عنه came to Makkah while still a disbeliever, heard the Prophet ﷺ reciting this surah in Maghrib, and said his heart was about to fly — he later accepted Islam.
✦ The story
A surah of oaths and of consolation. It swears by the mountain, by a Book inscribed, by the frequented House, by the raised canopy of the sky, by the sea filled with fire.
Then it runs through every accusation thrown at the Prophet ﷺ — poet, madman, soothsayer, forger — and turns each into a question the accusers cannot answer. *Or were they created by nothing? Or are they the creators? Or do they own the treasuries of your Lord?*
And it ends with a line that must have carried him through a great deal: *"So be patient for the decision of your Lord — for indeed, you are in Our eyes."*
✦ How it unfolds
- AYAH 1-16
The oaths
The mountain, the Book, the House, the sky, the sea — and a punishment with no repelling.
- AYAH 17-28
Families reunited
The God-conscious in gardens, their offspring joined to them, remembering how they used to fear.
- AYAH 29-49
The unanswerable questions
Every accusation turned back as a question — and "you are in Our eyes."