Surah Al-Ma'un (The Small Kindnesses)

Topics in Surah Al-Ma'un

Study guides that discuss verses of this surah, most connected first.

• Nurturing (Tarbiyah) (7 verses)
• Repelling (Daf') (6 verses)
• Prayer (Salah) (4 verses)
• Weakness (Da'f) (3 verses)
• Food (Ta'am) (3 verses)
• Adoption (Tabanni) (2 verses)
• Encouragement (Targhib) (2 verses)
• Preservation (Hifz) (2 verses)
• Loss (Khusran) (2 verses)
• Time (Waqt) (2 verses)
• Orphans (Yateem) (2 verses)
• Torment (Adhab) (2 verses)
• Ostentation (Riya) (1 verses)
• Reward (Thawab) (1 verses)
• Questioning (Su'al) (1 verses)

Read Surah Al-Ma'un with English translation

1. 107:1

   بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ أَرَءَيْتَ ٱلَّذِى يُكَذِّبُ بِٱلدِّينِ

   [Prophet], have you considered the person who denies the Judgement?

2. 107:2

   فَذَٰلِكَ ٱلَّذِى يَدُعُّ ٱلْيَتِيمَ

   It is he who pushes aside the orphan

3. 107:3

   وَلَا يَحُضُّ عَلَىٰ طَعَامِ ٱلْمِسْكِينِ

   and does not urge others to feed the needy.

4. 107:4

   فَوَيْلٌۭ لِّلْمُصَلِّينَ

   So woe to those who pray

5. 107:5

   ٱلَّذِينَ هُمْ عَن صَلَاتِهِمْ سَاهُونَ

   but are heedless of their prayer;

6. 107:6

   ٱلَّذِينَ هُمْ يُرَآءُونَ

   those who are all show

7. 107:7

   وَيَمْنَعُونَ ٱلْمَاعُونَ

   and forbid common kindnesses.

English translation: M.A.S. Abdel Haleem.