Al-Asr

Sura 103 of the Quran
العصر‎ ; Al-ʻAṣr; The Declining Day
Arabic text; ; English translation;
Classification	Meccan
Other names	Eventide, The Epoch, Time, Afternoon, The Flight of Time, Time through the Ages, Time and Age
Position	Juzʼ 30
No. of verses	3
	← Quran 102 Quran 104 →

Al-Asr (Arabic: العصر, romanized: al-ʻaṣr, The Declining Day, Eventide, The Epoch, Time) is the 103rd chapter (sūrah) of the Qur’ān, the Muslim holy book. It contains three āyāt or verses. Surat al-‘Asr is the third shortest chapter after Al-Kawthar and Al-Nasr, being shorter than Al-Nasr by only two words in the 3rd verse.

۝^[1] By the afternoon;

۝ verily man employeth himself in that which will prove of loss:

۝ except those who believe, and do that which is right; and who mutually recommend the truth, and mutually recommend perseverance unto each other.^[2]

^ Arabic script in Unicode symbol for a Quran verse, U+06DD, page 3, Proposal for additional Unicode characters
^ George Sale's translation

[1] Arabic script in Unicode symbol for a Quran verse, U+06DD, page 3, Proposal for additional Unicode characters

[GS-2] George Sale's translation

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العصر‎ Al-ʻAṣr The Declining Day
Arabic text Audio file^ⓘ English translation
Classification	Meccan
Other names	Eventide, The Epoch, Time, Afternoon, The Flight of Time, Time through the Ages, Time and Age
Position	Juzʼ 30
No. of verses	3
← Quran 102 Quran 104 →