Reports of a missing military expedition led by al-Mundhir ibn ʿAmr circulated for a month before these eleven verses confirmed the army's safety. This narrative grounds a strong position that the text is Madinan, though early authorities like Ibn Masʿūd counted it as the fourteenth Makkan revelation, placed between Sūrat al-ʿAṣr and al-Kawthar. The chapter takes its primary names—"Sūrat al-ʿĀdiyāt" (The Chargers) and "Sūrat al-Ḍabḥ" (The Panting)—from its opening oath, implicitly commending the warriors and their mounts.

The text opens with oaths swearing by the power and breath of these warhorses, using their exertion to affirm human ingratitude. It then turns to condemn an excessive love of wealth, warning Muslims against traits shared by polytheists and hypocrites.

The final ayahs establish the absolute certainty of accountability after death. The outward momentum of the charging mounts gives way to an unavoidable reality, where the contents of the graves are brought forth and the deepest secrets of human hearts are exposed and judged.

Surah Al-'Adiyat (The Courser) — 11 verses

بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ

100:1

By the charging steeds that pant

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100:2

and strike sparks with their hooves,

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100:3

who make dawn raids,

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100:4

raising a cloud of dust,

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100:5

and plunging into the midst of the enemy,

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100:6

man is ungrateful to his Lord––

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100:7

and He is witness to this––

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100:8

he is truly excessive in his love of wealth.

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100:9

Does he not know that when the contents of graves burst forth,

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100:10

when the secrets of hearts are uncovered, on that Day,

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100:11

their Lord will be fully aware of them all?

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End of Al-'Adiyat

চিন্তা-ভাবনা অন্বেষণ করুন সূরার তথ্য

Az-Zalzalah Al-Qari'ah

Surah Al-'Adiyat (The Courser) — 11 verses

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