At-Takwir

Sura 81 of the Quran

التكوير‎ At-Takwīr The OverThrowing
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Classification	Meccan
Other names	The Cessation, The Darkening, The Rolling, The turning into a sphere
Position	Juzʼ 30
No. of verses	29
No. of words	104
No. of letters	435

At-Takwīr (Arabic: التكوير, literally "The Turning Into a Sphere") is the eighty-first chapter (sura) of the Qur'an, with 29 verses (ayat). It tells about signs of the coming of the day of judgement.

Summary

• 1-14 The terrible signs of the judgment-day
• 15-25 Oaths that the Quran is the word of Allah, and that Muhammad is neither a madman nor deluded by the devil
• 26-29 The Quran an admonition to all men

Hadith

• Whoever wants to see the Qiyamah with his/her eyes should read the verses of at-Takwir, al-Infitar and al-Inshiqaq.”
• Imam Ahmad recorded from Ibn Umar that Muhammad said: "Whoever wishes to look at the Day of Resurrection, as if he is seeing it with this eye, then let him recite: ‘When the sun Kuwwirat’(At-Takwir) and ‘When the heaven is cleft sunder (Al-Infitar) and ‘When the heaven is split asunder.(Al-Inshiqaq)’”
• Umar ibn Horayth said: "I heard the Prophet (ﷺ) reciting: 'When the sun is wound round.' in fajr. (at-Takwir (81:1)) "
• Sahabah reported that Muhammad used to recite surahs An-Naba (78) and Al-Mursalat (77) in one rak'ah, and surahs Ad-Dukhan (44) and At-Takwir (81) in one rak'ah.