(Revealed at Mecca)

75 Verses in 8 Sections

Sections of Az-Zumar (Az-Zumur) - The Companions

1. Prayer to be purely and exclusively for God alone.

2. The patient shall be rewarded without any account.

3. Qur’an, a Guidance without any crookedness.

4. Those who bring the Truth and testify it.

5. Consequences of the evil wrought, shall not be averted.

6. God’s Mercy.

7. The Judgment.

8. The just recompense.

Important Topics

1. The Holy Qur’an sent to the Holy Prophet in the complete Book form (besides the gradual revelation). (Verse 1).

2. All men created from one single self (soul) and then made into mates. (Verse 6).

3. Kingdom belongs only to God. (Verse 6).

4. No bearer shall bear the burden of the other. (Verse 7).

5. He who spends standing in prayer (the Holy Imam Ali Ibn Abi Talib) seeking the mercy of the Lord, and the knowing and the ignorant can never be equal. (Verse 9).

6. The Holy Prophet, the First who submitted to the Lord, (i.e. the First of God’s creation). (Verse 12).

7. Those who keep away from falsehood and turn to God, are given the glad tidings. (Verse 17).

8. Whosoever’s heart is opened for Islam (submission to the Lord) he is on a Light from the Lord. (Verse 22).

9. Whosoever is let by God to stray, he will not have any one else to guide him aright. (Verses 23, 36).

10. God is sufficient for those who rely exclusively on Him. (Verse 38).

11. Whatever good or evil, one does is only for and against his own self. (Verse 41).

12. All intercession right is only with God, (none shall intercede without His leave. (Refer to the notes on the references quoted besides the verse in the margin). (Verse 44).

13. Even if all that is in the earth is offered by the unjust ones as a ransom, against the chastisement on the Day of Judgment, it shall never be of any avail to them. (Verse 47).

14. When any affliction afflicts man, he turns imploring to God for the relief and when the relief prayed for reached him, he ascribes it to his own means. (Verse 49).

15. To man befalls only that which he himself acts of the evils. (Verse 51)

16. Man should know that it is God and none else Who extends and amplifies the sustenance and straitens it to whomsoever He wills. (Verse 52)