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The Meaning of the Glorious Koran (1930)/The Declining Day

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SÛRAH CIII

Al-'Aṣr takes its name from a word in verse 1.

A very early Meccan Sûrah.


THE DECLINING DAY

Revealed at Mecca

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

1 By the declining day,
2 Lo! man is in a state of loss,
3 Save those who believe and do good works, and exhort one another to truth and exhort one another to endurance.