Sura al-Qasas

Sura al-Qasas (audio - translation)

Sūra al-Qaṣaṣ (Arabic: سورة القصص) is the twenty eighth sura of the Qur'an. It is a Makki sura located in the twentieth juz' of the Qur'an. It is called "al-Qasas" (stories) because it concerns stories of some prophets, including the stories of the birth of Moses (a), his marriage to Shu'ayb's daughter, Moses's fight against the Pharaoh, the story of Korah, and pretexts of polytheists of Mecca for not believing in the Prophet (s).

One well-known verse of Sura al-Qasas is its verse five concerning the victory of the oppressed and their inheritance of the earth, which is appealed to for Mahdawiyya. As to the virtues of reciting Sura al-Qasas, it is said that if one recites suras of Qur'an 27, Qur'an 26, and al-Qasas on eves of Friday, he will be a friend of God, will stay in His adjacency, and under His protection, and will never suffer any hardships, and in the afterlife, he will be given the Heaven to the degree of his satisfaction or even more.