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Surah Al-’Asr

سورة العصر

Surah 103 3 verses Meccan page 601

Surah Al-’Asr (“The Declining Day”) is the 103rd surah of the Quran. Revealed in Makkah, it has 3 verses and begins in juz 30. Listen to it in full by 400 reciters and download the mp3 you prefer.

Listen by Abdul Rahman Al-SudaisHafs, 0:16. Choose another reciter below.
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Al-’Asr by 400 reciters

  1. Abdul Rahman Al-SudaisHafs, murattal عبد الرحمن السديس 0:16
  2. Saad Al-GhamdiHafs, murattal سعد الغامدي 0:21
  3. Mishary Rashid AlafasyHafs, murattal مشاري بن راشد العفاسي 0:27
  4. Maher Al-MuaiqlyHafs, murattal ماهر المعيقلي 0:20
  5. Abdul Basit Abdul SamadHafs, murattal عبد الباسط عبد الصمد 0:22
  6. Saud Al-ShuraimHafs, murattal سعود الشريم 0:15
  7. Ahmed Al-AjmiHafs, murattal أحمد بن علي العجمي 0:15
  8. Fares AbbadHafs, murattal فارس عباد 0:19
  9. Mahmoud Khalil Al-HussaryHafs, murattal محمود خليل الحصري 0:39
  10. Mohamed Siddiq El-MinshawiHafs, murattal محمد صديق المنشاوي 0:27
  11. Yasser Al-DosariHafs, murattal ياسر الدوسري 0:16
  12. Abdullah MatroodHafs, murattal عبد الله المطرود 0:22
  14. Abu Bakr Al-ShatriHafs, murattal أبو بكر الشاطري 0:22
  15. Alzain Mohamed AhmedHafs, murattal الزين محمد أحمد 0:19
  16. Omar Al-KazabriWarsh, murattal عمر القزابري 0:23
  17. Ali JaberHafs, murattal علي جابر 0:18
  18. Ali Al-HudhaifyHafs, murattal علي الحذيفي 0:26
  19. Salah BukhatirHafs, murattal صلاح بو خاطر 0:16
  20. Yassen Al-JazairiWarsh, murattal ياسين الجزائري 0:19
  21. Idris AbkarHafs, murattal إدريس أبكر 0:19
  22. Abdullah Awad Al-JuhanyHafs, murattal عبد الله عواد الجهني 0:18
  23. Abdirashid Ali SufiAs-Susi, murattal عبد الرشيد علي صوفي 0:19
  24. Laayoune El-KouchiWarsh, murattal العيون الكوشي 0:18
  25. Khalid Al-JalilHafs, tarawih خالد الجليل 0:15
  26. Abdul Wadood HaneefHafs, murattal عبد الودود حنيف 0:15
  27. Mohamed El-BarakHafs, murattal محمد البراك 0:16
  28. Mahmoud Ali Al-BannaHafs, murattal محمود علي البنا 0:23
  29. Nasser Al-QatamiHafs, murattal ناصر القطامي 0:14
  30. TH The Holy Quran in FrenchHafs, murattal القرآن الكريم باللغة الفرنسية 0:16
  31. Ahmad SaudHafs, murattal أحمد سعود 0:31
  32. Khalifa Al-TunaijiHafs, murattal خليفة الطنيجي 0:21
  33. Hassan SalehHafs, murattal حسن صالح 0:16
  34. Abdullah ibn Ali BasfarHafs, murattal عبد الله بن علي بصفر 0:24
  35. Muhammad AyyubHafs, murattal محمد أيوب 0:29
  36. Mustafa Al LahouniHafs, murattal مصطفى اللاهوني 0:27
  37. Adil Al-KalbaniHafs, murattal عادل الكلباني 0:17
  38. Muhammad JibreelHafs, murattal محمد جبريل 0:31
  39. Mohamed TablawiHafs, murattal محمد محمود الطبلاوي 0:36
  40. Muhammad Al-Aalim Al-DokaliQalun, murattal محمد العالم الدوكالي 0:20
  41. Muhammad Al-MohaisanyHafs, murattal محمد بن سليمان المحيسني 0:13

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Surah Al-’Asr for children, with repetition

Teaching recitations (mushaf mu’allim): each verse is recited and then repeated, to learn it by heart.

Teaching Quran (mushaf mu’allim)
  1. Saad Al-GhamdiHafs, teaching (mu’allim) سعد الغامدي 0:49
  2. Mishary Rashid AlafasyHafs, teaching (mu’allim) مشاري بن راشد العفاسي 0:48
  3. Maher Al-MuaiqlyHafs, teaching (mu’allim) ماهر المعيقلي 0:45
  4. Mahmoud Khalil Al-HussaryHafs, teaching (mu’allim) محمود خليل الحصري 0:50
  5. Mohamed Siddiq El-MinshawiHafs, teaching (mu’allim) محمد صديق المنشاوي 0:51
  6. Ali Al-HudhaifyHafs, teaching (mu’allim) علي الحذيفي 0:58

The verses of the surah

Full text in Uthmani script, with vowel marks (tashkeel).

Read Surah Al-’Asr in Arabic and English

بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ

وَٱلْعَصْرِ۝١ إِنَّ ٱلْإِنسَٰنَ لَفِى خُسْرٍ۝٢ إِلَّا ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوا۟ وَعَمِلُوا۟ ٱلصَّٰلِحَٰتِ وَتَوَاصَوْا۟ بِٱلْحَقِّ وَتَوَاصَوْا۟ بِٱلصَّبْرِ۝٣

Its virtues

All its virtues and hadiths

No hadith reports a virtue specific to Surah Al-’Asr, except that it belongs to the Mufassal by which the Prophet ﷺ was favoured over the other prophets. Brief as it is, it gathers the means of salvation from loss: faith, good deeds, and urging one another to truth and to patience. It is even reported that Ash-Shafi’i said: “Had nothing but this surah been revealed, it would have sufficed people.”

  • A surah of the Mufassal
  • Brief yet rich in meaning
  • The means of salvation from loss

Other ways to read the surah

In transliteration, word by word or with tajweed colours.

Surah Al-’Asr at a glance

Name

The Surah takes its name from the word al-'asr occurring in the first verse .

Period of Revelation

Although Mujahid, Qatadah and Muqatil regard Surah Al-'Asr as a Madani Surah, a great majority of the commentators opine that it is Makki; its subject matter also testifies that it must have been sent down in the earliest stage in Makkah, when the message of Islam was being presented in brief but highly impressive sentences so that the listeners who heard them once could not forget them even if they wanted to, for they were automatically committed to memory.

Theme and Subject Matter

This Surah is a inimitable specimen of comprehensiveness and brevity. A whole world of meaning has been compressed into its few brief words, which is too vast in content to be fully expressed even in a book. In the surah, in a clear and plain way, the way to true success for man and the way to ruin and destruction for him have both been stated. Imam Ash Shafi'i has very rightly said that if the people only considered this Surah well, it alone would suffice them for their guidance. How important this Surah was in the sight of the Companions can be judged from the tradition cited from Hadrat Abdullah bin Hisn ad-Darimi Abu Madinah, according to which whenever any two of them met, they would not part company until they had recited Surah Al-Asr to each other. (Tabarani)

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