Al-Kāfirūn (, "The Kafirs") is the 109th chapter (sūrah) of the Quran. It has six ayat or verses as follows: Arabic script in Unicode symbol for a Quran verse, U+06DD, page 3, Proposal for additional Unicode characters Say, "O disbelievers, I do not worship what you worship. Nor are you worshippers of what I worship. Nor will I be a worshipper of what you worship. Nor will you be worshippers of what I worship. For you is your religion, and for me is my religion."Sahih International translation
Text and meaning Text and transliteration Hafs from Aasim ibn Abi al-Najud
Warsh from Nafiʽ al-Madani
Translations
Say (O Muhammad to these Mushrikun and Kafirun): “O Al-Kafirun (disbelievers in God, in His Oneness, in His Angels, in His Books, in His Messengers, in the Day of Resurrection, and in Al-Qadar, etc.)!
I worship not that which you worship,
Nor will you worship that which I worship.
And I shall not worship that which you are worshipping.
Nor will you worship that which I worship.
To you be your religion, and to me my religion (Tawhid).”
Say, “O disbelievers,
I do not worship what you worship.
Nor are you worshippers of what I worship.
Nor will I be a worshipper of what you worship.
Nor will you be worshippers of what I worship.
For you is your religion, and for me is my religion.”
Say: “O ye that reject Faith!
I worship not that which ye worship,
Nor will ye worship that which I worship.
And I will not worship that which ye have been wont to worship,
Nor will ye worship that which I worship.
To you be your Way, and to me mine.”
Say: “O disbelievers!
I worship not that which ye worship;
Nor worship ye that which I worship.
And I shall not worship that which ye worship.
Nor will ye worship that which I worship.
Unto you your religion, and unto me my religion.”
Summary 1-6 Muhammad declines to compromise with idolatry
Like many of the shorter surahs, the surah of the unbelievers takes the form of an invocation, telling the reader something they must ask for or say aloud. Here, the passage declares the separation between belief and unbelief both in the past and the present, ending with a firm rejection of the disbelief in Allah and Muhammad, "to you your religion, and to me mine".
Al-Kafirun is classified as a Meccan surah, meaning it's believed to have been revealed in Mecca. According to tradition, the surah was revealed when some chieftains of Mecca, including Walid ibn al-Mughira, proposed peace to Muhammad that one year the Muslims would worship pagan gods, and the next year Meccans would worship Allah.
Hadith Abdullah ibn Umar has related that on many an occasions he heard Muhammad recite Surahs Qul Ya- ayyuhal- kafirun and Qul Huwu-Allahu ahad in the two before the obligatory prayer and in the two after Maghrib prayer.Several traditions on this subject with a little variation in wording have been related by Imam Ahmad, Tirmidhi, Al-Nasa'i, Ibn Majah, Ibn Hibban, Ibn Marduyah from ibn Umar. Khabbab ibn al-Aratt says: "The Holy Prophet (upon whom be peace) said to me: when you lie down in bed to sleep, recite , and this was the Holy Prophet's own practice also; when he lay down to sleep, he recited this ."Abu Bakr Al-Bazzar, Al-Tabarani, Ibn Marduyah According to Ibn Abbas, Muhammad said to the people: "Should I tell you the word which will protect you from polytheism? It is that you should recite when you go to bed."Abu Ya'la, Al-Tabarani Anas says that Muhammad said to Mu'adh bin Jabal; "Recite at the time you go to bed, for this is immunity from polytheism."Al-Bayhaqi in Ash-Shu'abAbu Dawud: 4396 & Hakim ibn Hizam 1/565 Both Fardah bin Naufal and Abdur Rahman bin Naufal have stated that their father, Naufal bin Muawiyah al-Ashjai, said to Muhammad: "Teach me something which I may recite at the time I go to bed." Muhammad replied: "Recite to the end and then sleep, for this is immunity from polytheism."(Musnad Ahmad, Abu Dawud, Tirmidhi, Al-Nasa'i, Ibn Abi Shaibah, Hakim ibn Hizam, Ibn Marduyah, Al-Bayhaqi in Ash-Shuab). A similar request was made by Jabalah bin Harithah, brother of Said bin Harithah, to Muhammad and to him also he gave the same reply.(Musnad Ahmad, Al-Tabarani). Muhammad recited in the two before the morning prayer and the two after the sunset prayer on ten or twenty occasions: Say and say He is God, the One (surah 112: al-Ikhlas).Imam Ahmad recorded from ibn Umar
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, 1930 translation by Muhammad Marmaduke Pickthall Quran 109, 2020 Mustafa Khattab translation