Surah 85: The Constellations - Overview
Surah 86: The Night Star - Overview
Surah 87: The Most High - Overview
Surah 88: The Overwhelming Event - Overview
Surah 89: The Dawn - Overview
Surah 90: The City - Overview

Essential Koran

The Hidden Illumination of the Holy Koran [85:17-22] 
Hast thou received the story of the hosts, Pharaoh and Thamood? Nay, but the unbelievers still cry lies, and God is behind them, encompassing. Nay but it is a glorious Koran, in a guarded tablet.

Morning Star [86:1-4] 
In the Name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate
By the heaven and the night-star! And what shall teach thee what is the night-star? The piercing star! Over every soul there is a watcher.

Spring Rain [86:11-14] 
By heaven of the returning rain, by earth splitting with verdure, surely it is a decisive word; it is no merriment.

Training for the Soul [87:14-19] 
Prosperous is he who has cleansed himself, and mentions the Name of his Lord, and prays. Nay, but you prefer the present life; and the world to come is better, and more enduring.

The Awakened State [88:1-15] 
In the Name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate
Hast thou received the story of the Enveloper? Faces on that day humbled, laboring, toilworn, roasting at a scorching fire, watered at a boiling fountain, no food for them but cactus thorn unfattening, unappeasing hunger. Faces on that day jocund, with their striving well-pleased, in a sublime Garden, hearing there no babble; therein a running fountain, therein uplifted couches and goblets set forth and cushions arrayed and carpets outspread.

Homecoming [89:27-30] 
'O soul at peace, return to thy Lord, well-pleased, well-pleasing! Enter thou among My servants! Enter thou My Paradise!'

The Steep Ascent [90:8-17] 
Have We not appointed to him two eyes, and a tongue, and two lips, and guided him on the two highways? Yet he has not assaulted the steep; and what shall teach thee what is the steep? The freeing of a slave, or giving food upon a day of hunger to an orphan near of kin or a needy man in misery; then that he become of those who believe and counsel each other to be steadfast, and counsel each other to be merciful.