The surahs
An introduction to every one of the 114 chapters of the Qur’an: what each one is, roughly when it was revealed, how long it is, what it deals with, and how Muslims have used it. Each page then links to every version of that surah held on this site — to read, to listen to, and to download.
- 1Al-FatihahThe Opening
- 2Al-BaqarahThe Cow
- 3Ali 'ImranThe Family of 'Imran
- 4An-NisaWomen
- 5Al-Ma'idahThe Table Spread
- 6Al-An'amThe Cattle
- 7Al-A'rafThe Heights
- 8Al-AnfalThe Spoils of War
- 9At-TawbahThe Repentance
- 10YunusJonah
- 11HudHud
- 12YusufJoseph
- 13Ar-Ra'dThe Thunder
- 14IbrahimAbraham
- 15Al-HijrThe Rocky Tract
- 16An-NahlThe Bee
- 17Al-IsraThe Night Journey
- 18Al-KahfThe Cave
- 19MaryamMary
- 20Ta-Ha
- 21Al-AnbiyaThe Prophets
- 22Al-HajjThe Pilgrimage
- 23Al-Mu'minunThe Believers
- 24An-NurThe Light
- 25Al-FurqanThe Criterion
- 26Ash-Shu'araThe Poets
- 27An-NamlThe Ants
- 28Al-QasasThe Stories
- 29Al-'AnkabutThe Spider
- 30Ar-RumThe Romans
- 31LuqmanLuqman
- 32As-SajdahThe Prostration
- 33Al-AhzabThe Confederates
- 34SabaSheba
- 35FatirThe Originator
- 36Ya-Sin
- 37As-SaffatThose Ranged in Ranks
- 38SadSad
- 39Az-ZumarThe Throngs
- 40GhafirThe Forgiver
- 41FussilatExplained in Detail
- 42Ash-ShuraThe Consultation
- 43Az-ZukhrufThe Gold Ornaments
- 44Ad-DukhanThe Smoke
- 45Al-JathiyahThe Kneeling
- 46Al-AhqafThe Sand Dunes
- 47MuhammadMuhammad
- 48Al-FathThe Victory
- 49Al-HujuratThe Private Rooms
- 50QafQaf
- 51Adh-DhariyatThe Scattering Winds
- 52At-TurThe Mount
- 53An-NajmThe Star
- 54Al-QamarThe Moon
- 55Ar-RahmanThe Most Merciful
- 56Al-Waqi'ahThe Inevitable
- 57Al-HadidThe Iron
- 58Al-MujadilahThe Woman Who Argues
- 59Al-HashrThe Gathering
- 60Al-MumtahanahThe Woman Examined
- 61As-SaffThe Ranks
- 62Al-Jumu'ahThe Congregation
- 63Al-MunafiqunThe Hypocrites
- 64At-TaghabunThe Mutual Loss and Gain
- 65At-TalaqThe Divorce
- 66At-TahrimThe Prohibition
- 67Al-MulkThe Dominion
- 68Al-QalamThe Pen
- 69Al-HaqqahThe Inevitable Reality
- 70Al-Ma'arijThe Ways of Ascent
- 71NuhNoah
- 72Al-JinnThe Jinn
- 73Al-MuzzammilThe Enshrouded One
- 74Al-MuddaththirThe Cloaked One
- 75Al-QiyamahThe Resurrection
- 76Al-InsanThe Human Being
- 77Al-MursalatThose Sent Forth
- 78An-Naba'The Announcement
- 79An-Nazi'atThose Who Pull Out
- 80'AbasaHe Frowned
- 81At-TakwirThe Folding Up
- 82Al-InfitarThe Cleaving
- 83Al-MutaffifinThose Who Give Short Measure
- 84Al-InshiqaqThe Splitting Open
- 85Al-BurujThe Great Constellations
- 86At-TariqThe Night Visitor
- 87Al-A'laThe Most High
- 88Al-GhashiyahThe Overwhelming Event
- 89Al-FajrThe Dawn
- 90Al-BaladThe City
- 91Ash-ShamsThe Sun
- 92Al-LaylThe Night
- 93Ad-DuhaThe Morning Brightness
- 94Ash-SharhThe Relief
- 95At-TinThe Fig
- 96Al-'AlaqThe Clinging Form
- 97Al-QadrThe Decree
- 98Al-BayyinahThe Clear Evidence
- 99Az-ZalzalahThe Earthquake
- 100Al-'AdiyatThe Charging Horses
- 101Al-Qari'ahThe Striking Calamity
- 102At-TakathurThe Rivalry for Increase
- 103Al-'AsrThe Passing Time
- 104Al-HumazahThe Slanderer
- 105Al-FilThe Elephant
- 106QurayshThe Quraysh
- 107Al-Ma'unSmall Kindnesses
- 108Al-KawtharAbundance
- 109Al-KafirunThose Who Reject
- 110An-NasrThe Help
- 111Al-MasadThe Palm Fibre
- 112Al-IkhlasSincerity
- 113Al-FalaqThe Daybreak
- 114An-NasMankind