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سُورَةُ الفَجۡرِ · 89:28
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ٱرْجِعِىٓ إِلَىٰ رَبِّكِ رَاضِيَةًۭ مَّرْضِيَّةًۭ

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Return to your Lord, well-pleased and pleasing [to Him],

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Introduction

This is āyah 28 of Sūrat Al-Fajr (The Dawn), the 10th sūrah in the traditional order of revelation. It was revealed in the Meccan period and sits within Juzʾ 30. Meccan verses tend to address faith, the oneness of God, and the hereafter.

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Revelation & occasion

Asbāb al-Nuzūl
Period
Meccan
Order revealed
10 of 114
Surah
Al-Fajr (89)

No specific occasion of revelation (Asbāb al-Nuzūl) is recorded for this āyah in al-Wāḥidī's collection. Many verses were revealed without a single triggering event.

Commentary

Tafsir

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Hafiz Ibn Kathir

Nay! When the earth is flatened, Dakkan Dakka (21)And your Lord comes with the angels in rows (22)And Hell will be brought near that Day. On that Day will man remember, but how will that remembrance avail him (23)He will say: "Alas! Would that I had sent forth for my life! (24)So on that Day none will punish as He will punish (25)And none will bind as He will bind (26)"O tranquil soul! (27)"Come back to your Lord, – well-pleased and well-pleasing! (28)"Enter then among My servants, (29)"And enter My Paradise! (30) On the Day of Judgement Everyone will be recompensed according to what He did of Good or Evil Allah informs of what will happen on the Day of Judgement of the great horrors. He says, كَلَّا (Nay!) meaning, truly. إِذَا دُكَّتِ الْأَرْضُ دَكًّا دَكًّا (When the earth is flatened, Dakkan Dakka.) meaning, the earth and the mountains will be flattened, leveled and made even, …
Provenance

Chains of transmission

Oral — isnād

  1. ~610–632 CERevelation & memorisation

    Received by the Prophet ﷺ and preserved by the ḥuffāẓ (memorisers) among the Companions.

  2. 1st century AHMutawātir transmissionawaiting curation

    Carried by mass-transmission through the generations of qurrāʾ.

  3. TodayLiving chainsawaiting curation

    Continuous ijāzah chains link reciters today back to the Prophet ﷺ.

Verified isnād chains for this āyah will be added by curators.

Written — the manuscript record

  1. ~650 CEʿUthmānic codicesawaiting curation

    The standardised muṣḥaf sent to the great cities (e.g. the Topkapı and Samarqand codices).

  2. 8th–10th c.Early Ḥijāzī & Kūfic foliosawaiting curation

    Surviving leaves in Birmingham, Sanaa, Paris (BnF) and beyond.

  3. Modern printModern printawaiting curation

    The 1924 Cairo edition → today: the standard printed muṣḥaf used worldwide.

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