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1-4 Oaths that God created man “a most excellent fabric”

5-6 God has made all men vile except true believers

7-8 None may rightly deny the judgment-day

1-4 God made Muhammad’s mission easy to him

5-8 He is exhorted to labour and pray after the mission is ended

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1-3 Muhammad comforted by the assurance that God is with him

4-5 The life to come to be preferred to the present life

6-11 Muhammad exhorted to care for the orphan and beggar

1-4 Oaths by various natural objects

5-13 The obedient blessed and the covetous accursed

14-16 The covetous threatened with hell-fire

17-21 True believers shall be rewarded hereafter

1-10 Oaths that man’s happiness and misery depends on the purity or corruption he hath wrought in it

11-15 Thamúd destroyed for rejecting their prophet

1-7 Man, though created in misery, yet boasts of his riches

8-16 Captives to be freed and the poor and orphan to be fed

17-20 Description of the companions of the right and left hand [1]

1-4 Various oaths by natural objects

5-13 Unbelievers are warned by the fate of Ád, Thamúd, and Pharaoh

14-17 Man praises God in prosperity, but reproaches him in adversity

18-22 Oppression of the poor and the orphan denounced

23-26 The wicked will vainly regret their evil deeds on the judgment-day

27-30 The believing soul invited to the joys of Paradise [5]

The surah opens with various oaths that extend up to the 4th ayah. Unbelievers are warned by the fate of Ád, Thamúd, and Pharaoh in ayaat 5th up to 13th.[6] Then the surah discusses that Man praises God in prosperity, but reproaches him in adversity in ayaat 14th to 17th. The discourse then denounces the oppression of the poor in ayaat 18th to 22nd. And approaching the end ayaat 23rd to 25th give the verdict that the wicked will vainly regret their evil deeds on the judgment-day, while ayaat 26th to the 30th gives the good news to the believing soul invited to the joys of Paradise.[7]

1-3 The terrible day of judgment

4-7 Description of the torments of hell

8-16 The joyful state of the Muslims on the judgment-day

17-20 God manifests himself in his works

21-22 Muhammad only to warn, not to rule over, the infidels

23-26 God will himself punish the unbelievers [1]

This surah refers to three broad-ranging topics. The first, God describes the difference between good and evil paths that an individual can take and the consequence of each path. He then clarifies their destiny and describes what hell would be like for the non-believers. The second theme mentions the creations God has made and referring to the sky, the earth, and the mountains. Lastly, In verses 21–22, God gives a direct message to Prophet Muhammad and tells him, "So remind, [O Muhammad]; you are only a reminder. You are not over them a controller."[2]

1-5 God, the Most High, praised for his works

6-9 God promises to help Muhammad to proclaim the Quran

10-11 The God-fearing only shall be admonished

12-15 The wicked shall be punished, but the righteous shall be blessed

16-17 Men choose the present life rather than the life to come

18-19 The books of Abraham and Moses attest the Quran [2]

1-4 Sins are being recorded

In this sura, God (Allah) takes an oath by the sky and At-Tariq to say that there is an assigned watcher over every human being and all the deeds and sins done by human beings are being recorded.

5-7 Between the backbone and the ribs

Allah then asks the human beings to think about how they were created. He then goes on to say that he has created human beings from the gushing water flowing between the backbone and the ribs.[1]

8-10 Judgment Day

Allah then reminds the human beings about the Judgment Day, the day when all the secrets would be revealed. On that day, human beings would have no power and no one would help them.

11-14 Oath on the heaven and the earth.

God then takes another oath on the heaven and the earth to say that, whatever being said here is word of God and must be taken very seriously.

15-17 Non-believers plotting a scheme

In the last three verses of the chapter, God says that the non-believers are plotting a scheme but in return God is also planning a scheme.