107:1
اَرَءَیْتَ الَّذِیْ یُكَذِّبُ بِالدِّیْنِ ۟ؕ
Have you seen the one who denies the Recompense?
Surah 107 of 114 · Makkah · Juz 30
Surah Al-Ma'un
The Small kindnesses
الماعون7 ayahs
Revealed in Makkah
Translation: Saheeh International
About Surah Al-Ma'un
Ma'un is the small ordinary help neighbours pass between one another, the borrowed pot or bucket, the thing nobody keeps accounts of. It is the last word of the surah and gives it its name. The subject is the connection between believing in a day of reckoning and how a person behaves when no one is keeping score, which is why the surah spends no time on argument and all of it on conduct.
It opens as a question about the one who denies the Recompense (107:1), then answers by describing behaviour rather than belief: he shoves the orphan aside (107:2) and does not encourage anyone to feed the poor (107:3). Halfway through, the target changes. Woe now falls on people who pray (107:4), those heedless of the prayer they are performing (107:5), who do it to be seen (107:6) and then refuse the loan of a household item (107:7). Prayer is not what is being criticised. Prayer emptied of what it was meant to produce is. The indictment runs from a pushed away orphan down to a withheld bucket, and the descent in scale is the point.
بِسْمِ اللّٰهِ الرَّحْمٰنِ الرَّحِیْمِ
107:2
فَذٰلِكَ الَّذِیْ یَدُعُّ الْیَتِیْمَ
For that is the one who drives away the orphan
107:3
وَلَا یَحُضُّ عَلٰی طَعَامِ الْمِسْكِیْنِ ۟ؕ
And does not encourage the feeding of the poor.
107:4
فَوَیْلٌ لِّلْمُصَلِّیْنَ
So woe to those who pray
107:5
الَّذِیْنَ هُمْ عَنْ صَلَاتِهِمْ سَاهُوْنَ
[But] who are heedless of their prayer -
107:6
الَّذِیْنَ هُمْ یُرَآءُوْنَ
Those who make show [of their deeds]
107:7
وَیَمْنَعُوْنَ الْمَاعُوْنَ
And withhold [simple] assistance.
Surah Al-Ma'un in the Quran, with the Arabic in IndoPak Nastaleeq, 7 ayahs, translation, word by word meaning and recitation. Recite it offline on your phone with the free Android app.