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سُورَةُ الفَلَقِ al-Falaq

The Daybreak, Sūrah 113, 5 āyāt

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The first of the two sūrahs of seeking refuge with Allah from harm.

The text of al-Falaq

A rendering of the meaning in our own plain English. It is not the Qurʾān itself, and not a word-for-word translation.

  1. Āyah 113:1

    قُلْ أَعُوذُ بِرَبِّ ٱلْفَلَقِ

    Qul a-ʿū-dhu bi-rab-bil-fa-laq

    Say: I seek protection with the Lord of the breaking dawn

    Al-falaq is the breaking of dawn. Al-Ṭabarī notes that the word was explained in other ways too, and holds that Allah is Lord of everything the word names.1

  2. Āyah 113:2

    مِن شَرِّ مَا خَلَقَ

    Min shar-ri mā kha-laq

    from the harm of anything He has created,

  3. Āyah 113:3

    وَمِن شَرِّ غَاسِقٍ إِذَا وَقَبَ

    Wa min shar-ri ghā-si-qin i-dhā wa-qab

    and from the harm of the darkness of night when it settles in,

    Al-Ṭabarī: a ghāsiq is whatever grows dark, such as the night as it falls, and waqab means that it comes in. He holds that the āyah covers every such thing.2

  4. Āyah 113:4

    وَمِن شَرِّ ٱلنَّفَّٰثَٰتِ فِى ٱلْعُقَدِ

    Wa min shar-rin-naf-fā-thā-ti fil-ʿu-qad

    and from the harm of those who blow on knots to work sorcery,

    Al-Ṭabarī: the sorceresses who blow on knotted thread as they recite their spells.3

  5. Āyah 113:5

    وَمِن شَرِّ حَاسِدٍ إِذَا حَسَدَ

    Wa min shar-ri ḥā-si-din i-dhā ḥa-sad

    and from the harm of an envious person when they envy.

    Al-Ṭabarī holds that this covers every envier who acts on envy, by finding fault, by sorcery or by wishing harm.4

When it is recited

Al-Falaq and al-Nās are the two sūrahs of seeking refuge (al-muʿawwidhatān). The Prophet ﷺ said of them that āyāt had been sent down whose like had never been seen (Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim 814). Each night before sleeping he recited them with al-Ikhlāṣ, blew lightly into his cupped hands and wiped them over as much of his body as he could, three times (Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī 5017). When he was ill he recited them over himself and blew lightly (al-Bukhārī 5016). He told ʿUqbah ibn ʿĀmir to recite the sūrahs of refuge (al-muʿawwidhāt) after every prayer (Sunan Abī Dāwūd 1523, graded ṣaḥīḥ by al-Albānī; Jāmiʿ al-Tirmidhī 2903, graded ḥasan in the Darussalam edition). And he taught reciting them with al-Ikhlāṣ three times in the evening and in the morning, saying they would be enough for you against everything (Abū Dāwūd 5082, graded ḥasan by al-Albānī; al-Tirmidhī 3575, which al-Tirmidhī graded ḥasan ṣaḥīḥ gharīb).5,6,7,8,9,10,11

Sources

  1. al-Ṭabarī, Jāmiʿ al-Bayān, on 113:1
  2. al-Ṭabarī, Jāmiʿ al-Bayān, on 113:3
  3. al-Ṭabarī, Jāmiʿ al-Bayān, on 113:4
  4. al-Ṭabarī, Jāmiʿ al-Bayān, on 113:5
  5. Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim 814a
  6. Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī 5017
  7. Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī 5016
  8. Sunan Abī Dāwūd 1523Grading: ṣaḥīḥ (al-Albānī (as shown on sunnah.com))
  9. Jāmiʿ al-Tirmidhī 2903Grading: ḥasan (Darussalam (as shown on sunnah.com))
  10. Sunan Abī Dāwūd 5082Grading: ḥasan (al-Albānī (as shown on sunnah.com))
  11. Jāmiʿ al-Tirmidhī 3575Grading: ḥasan ṣaḥīḥ gharīb (al-Tirmidhī (his own grading, in the Arabic text on sunnah.com))

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