Juz ʿAmma

جزء عمّ

The thirtieth and last part of the Quran, named for its first words, عَمَّ يَتَسَآءَلُونَ (“Whereof do they question one another?”). Its 37 short sūras, 564 verses, are the ones most often learned by heart and recited in prayer. Tap any word for its root and grammar from the Quranic Arabic Corpus.

Themes & resonances AI

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Themes

Return to the Lord, resurrection and reckoningالرُّجْعَىal-rujʿāroot رجع
The soul at peace called homeالنَّفْسُ الْمُطْمَئِنَّةal-nafs al-muṭmaʾinnaroot طمن
Looking at the signs in creationيَنظُرُونَyanẓurūnroot نظر
The One who neither begets nor is begottenأَحَدaḥadroot احد
Making the soul grow pureزَكَّاهَاzakkāhāroot زكو
The rusted heart and the secrets of the breastsرَانَrānaroot رين
Reminder and remembranceالذِّكْرَىal-dhikrāroot ذكر
Worship of the Lord alone, and refuge in Himعِبَادَةʿibādaroot عبد
The steep path: the orphan, the poor, the slaveالْيَتِيمal-yatīmroot يتم

What each theme is here

Return to the Lord, resurrection and reckoning. Almost every sūra turns on the coming Day, when bones are raised, records are opened and 'unto thy Lord is the return' (96:8, 88:25).
The soul at peace called home. Sūra 89 ends with God addressing the soul at peace, telling it to return content and enter among His servants and His Garden (89:27-30).
Looking at the signs in creation. The hearer is told to look at camels, sky, hills and earth (88:17-20), at his food (80:24) and at his own origin (86:5) as evidence of the Creator.
The One who neither begets nor is begotten. Sūra 112 names God as One and as al-Ṣamad, denies begetting, and says nothing is comparable to Him.
Making the soul grow pure. After swearing by sun, moon, sky and soul, sūra 91 says the one who purifies the soul succeeds and the one who buries it fails (91:9-10; also 87:14).
The rusted heart and the secrets of the breasts. What the deniers earned has rusted over their hearts (83:14), and on the Day what is in the breasts is brought out (100:10, 86:9).
Reminder and remembrance. The Prophet is called a remembrancer and the revelation a reminder that benefits the one who fears (87:9-10, 88:21, 80:11).
Worship of the Lord alone, and refuge in Him. Sūra 109 separates the worship of the believer from that of the deniers, and the last two sūras seek refuge in the Lord, King and God of humankind.
The steep path: the orphan, the poor, the slave. The Ascent is freeing a slave and feeding the orphan and the destitute (90:11-16), and neglect of the orphan marks the one who denies religion (107:2, 89:17, 93:9).

Connections

Lineage 3

Documented transmission: a chain of reading, teaching, translation or citation, grounded in a verified reference or in the later text itself.

al-Amīr ʿAbd al-Qādir, Kitāb al-Mawāqif: commentaries on verses of Juz ʿAmmaAkbarian tradition (after Ibn Arabi) · firm
The Emir writes stations on the soul at peace (89:27), on sūra 112 as a third of the Quran, on the rust of 83:14, on the degrees of certainty in sūra 102 and on al-Kawthar, reading each in Ibn ʿArabī's terms.
Carried byالْمُطْمَئِنَّةal-muṭmaʾinnaroot طمن“the soul at peace”
In the library:al-Mawāqif ¶859 al-Mawāqif ¶405 al-Mawāqif ¶1559 al-Mawāqif ¶1561 al-Mawāqif ¶3721
Abū Yaʿqūb al-Sijistānī, Kitāb al-Maqālīd, Key 18: the Sūra of Sincerity and the testimony of faithShii and Ismaili thought · firm
Sijistānī reads sūra 112 against the formula 'no god but God', finding in it the negation and affirmation of his double negation of attributes.
Carried byأَحَدaḥadroot احد“One”
In the library:al-Maqālīd al-malakūtiyya ¶27 al-Maqālīd al-malakūtiyya ¶28 al-Maqālīd al-malakūtiyya ¶30
al-Qushayrī, al-Risāla: knowledge of certainty and eye of certaintySufism · probable
The Sufi grades ʿilm al-yaqīn and ʿayn al-yaqīn take their names from 102:5-7, and Qushayrī defines them among the technical terms of the path.
Carried byعِلْمَ الْيَقِينʿilm al-yaqīnroot يقن“certainty”
In the library:al-Risāla al-Qushayriyya ¶68

Resonance, not influence 8

Resonance, not influence: a structural or thematic likeness. No influence is claimed.

Eastern Christian hesychasts: hēsychia, stillness of the soul before GodEastern Christianity and Hesychasm · probable
Both name a settled, quiet soul as the condition in which it rests in God; the Quran gives this soul a call to return and enter, the hesychasts a practice of watchful prayer. Resonance, not influence.
Carried byمُطْمَئِنَّةmuṭmaʾinnaroot طمنἡσυχίαhēsychia“stillness”
In the library:Ennead VI.9, ch. 10
Ibn Sīnā, the Ode on the Soul (al-ʿAyniyya)Falsafa (Arabic philosophy) · probable
Sūra 95 says man was made in the best stature and then brought to the lowest of the low; Ibn Sīnā's dove descends from the highest place and asks why she was cast to the bottom. Both pose a fall from height; the ode makes it the soul's entry into the body.
Carried byأَسْفَلَ سَافِلِينasfala sāfilīnroot سفل“lowest of the low”
In the library:al-ʿAyniyya ¶1 al-ʿAyniyya ¶15
The Hymn of the Pearl (Acts of Thomas): the letter that wakes the princeGnosticism · probable
The prince who forgot he was a king's son is woken by a letter telling him to remember; the Juz ʿAmma presents revelation as a reminder to the heedless who will 'come to know'. Resonance, not influence.
Carried byذِكْرَىdhikrāroot ذكر“remember”
In the library:Hymn of the Pearl ¶44 Hymn of the Pearl ¶53
Plato, Phaedrus 249c-250a: recollection (anamnēsis) of what the soul once sawPlatonism · suggestive
The Emir reads dhikrā as reminding souls of a covenant they made before birth (Q 7:172); Plato has the soul recollect what it beheld before embodiment. Both treat learning the highest things as recovering something known; the Quran does not speak of a vision of forms.
Carried byذِكْرَىdhikrāroot ذكرἀνάμνησιςanamnēsis“recollection”
In the library:Phaedrus 249c Phaedrus 250a al-Mawāqif ¶3684
Ibn Ṭufayl, Ḥayy ibn Yaqẓān: the solitary knower reasoning from creaturesFalsafa (Arabic philosophy) · probable
Sūra 88 asks its hearers to look at camels, sky and earth; Ibn Ṭufayl's Ḥayy examines animals and plants on his island until he infers their maker. One commands looking, the other narrates it without scripture.
Carried byيَنظُرُونَyanẓurūnroot نظر“look”
In the library:Ḥayy (Ibn Ṭufayl) ¶84
Ibn al-Fāriḍ, the Wine Ode: the seal of the wine-jarArabic poetry · suggestive
The righteous drink a pure wine, sealed, whose seal is musk (83:25-26); in the Khamriyya even a glance at the seal of the vessel makes the companions drunk. Both make the seal itself a source of delight.
Carried byمَخْتُومmakhtūmroot ختم“sealed”
In the library:al-Khamriyya ¶8 al-Khamriyya ¶1
Buddhist recollection of death (maraṇasati)Buddhism · probable
Sūra 102 says rivalry in gain distracts people until they reach the graves; Buddhist practice keeps death in mind to cut attachment. Both use death to break absorption in accumulation, toward a judgment in one case and release in the other.
Carried byالتَّكَاثُرal-takāthurroot كثر“rivalry in increase”
Immanuel Kant, Critique of Practical Reason (1788), conclusion: the starry heavens above and the moral law withinEarly modern philosophy · suggestive
Sūra 91 swears by sun, moon and sky and then by a soul inspired with its wrong and its right; Kant sets the starry sky beside the moral law as the two things that fill him with awe. Resonance, not influence.
Carried byفَأَلْهَمَهَاfa-alhamahāroot لهم“inspired it”

Contrast 4

An instructive opposite: the difference teaches something about both.

Plotinus, Ennead VI.9: the One that is lovedNeoplatonism · firm
Plotinus's One is the object of the soul's desire and does not itself love; sūra 85 names God al-Wadūd, the Loving, beside the Forgiving.
Carried byالْوَدُودal-Wadūdroot ودد“the Loving”
In the library:Ennead VI.9, ch. 9
Nicene Creed: the Son 'begotten, not made'Early Christianity and the Fathers · firm
The creed confesses an eternal begetting within God; sūra 112 denies that God begets or is begotten.
Carried byلَمْ يَلِدْlam yalidroot ولدγεννηθένταgennēthenta“begotten”
In the library:Faṣṣ ʿĪsā ¶13
Brethren of Purity, Epistle 32: the ninefold order flowing from the CreatorNeoplatonism · probable
The Brethren describe Intellect as receiving the Creator's effusion and Soul as proceeding from Intellect, a descending chain of causes; sūra 112 speaks of a God who does not beget and has no equal, and the Juz ʿAmma speaks of direct creation by command.
Carried byفَيْضfayḍroot فيض“effusion”
In the library:Rasāʾil Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʾ ¶48 Rasāʾil Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʾ ¶49
Suhrawardī, The Sanctification of the Sun: prayer to HūrakhshIshraqi philosophy · probable
Suhrawardī greets the sun as a living, rational light and asks its intercession; the Juz ʿAmma swears by the sun as a created sign (91:1) and foretells its being overthrown (81:1).
Carried byالشَّمْسal-shamsroot شمس“the sun”
In the library:Taqdīs al-shams ¶1 Hayākil al-nūr ¶24

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Arabic: the Tanzil Uthmani text. Words: the Quranic Arabic Corpus. English: Abdel Haleem through the Quran Foundation, or Pickthall (1930, public domain). Recitation streamed from the Quran Foundation.

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