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سُورَةُ الكَافِرُونَ · 109:6
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لَكُمْ دِينُكُمْ وَلِىَ دِينِ

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For you is your religion, and for me is my religion."

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Introduction

This is āyah 6 of Sūrat Al-Kaafiroon (The Disbelievers), the 18th 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
18 of 114
Surah
Al-Kaafiroon (109)

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

The Recitation of these Surahs in the Optional Prayers It has been confirmed in Sahih Muslim from Jabir that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ recited this Surah (Al-Kafirun) and قُلْ هُوَ اللَّهُ أَحَدٌ (Say: "He is Allah One.")(112:1) in the two Rak'ahs of Tawaf. It is also recorded in Sahih Muslim in a Hadith of Abu Hurayrah that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ recited these two Surahs in the two Rak'ahs (optional prayer) of the Morning prayer. Imam Ahmad recorded from Ibn 'Umar that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ recited in the two Rak'ahs before the Morning prayer and the two Rak'ahs after the Sunset prayer on approximately ten or twenty different occasions, قُلْ يَا أَيُّهَا الْكَافِرُونَ (Say: "O Al-Kafirun!") and قُلْ هُوَ اللَّهُ أَحَدٌ (Say: " He is Allah One.")(112:1) Ahmad also recorded that Ibn 'Umar said, "I watched the Prophet ﷺ twenty-four or twenty-five times reciting in the two Rak'…
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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