Al-Ḥijr[1][2] (Arabic: الحِجْرْ, lit. 'The Stoneland') is the 15th Quranic chapter (sūrah). It has 99 verses (āyāt).

Regarding the timing and contextual background of the revelation (asbāb al-nuzūl), it is an earlier Meccan surah, believed to have been received by Prophet Muhammad shortly after chapter 12, Yusuf, during his last year in Mecca. Like other surahs of this period, it praises God.

Summary of this Surah

1-3 Unbelievers will one day wish themselves Muslims

4-5 Every nation has its day of grace

6 Muhammad charged with demoniacal possession by the disbelievers (the Quraish)

7 The unbelievers say a true prophet would have come with a company of angels

8 Angels are not sent to gratify curiosity, but to minister judgment

9 God the author and preserver of the Quran

10-11 The former prophets were laughed to scorn

12-15 The scoffing Quraish judicially blinded

16-20 God declares his glory in the heaven and the earth

21-22 He is active in every part of Nature

23-25 He is the God of life, death, and judgment

26-29 God says Men created of clay—the Jinn of fire

29-33 Iblís among the angels refuses to worship Adam

34-38 He is cursed and respited until the judgment

39-40 Satan declares to God his purpose to seduce men

41-42 The elect are safe from Satan’s power

43-44 The seven gates of hell will receive Satan’s followers

45-50 Paradise joys in store for true believers

51-77 The story of Abraham and Lot

78-79 The unbelieving Midianites are destroyed

80-81 The scoffing inhabitants of Al Hajr reject their prophets though accompanied with miracles

82-84 Rock-hewn houses fail to save them

85-86 The heaven and earth created in righteousness

87 Command to repeat the seven verses (Al-Fatiha)

88-90 Muhammad not to envy the prosperity of infidels

91-93 The enemies of God will surely be punished

94-96 Muhammad commanded to preach boldly

97-99 He is exhorted to praise and serve God until death