Protection from evil
Verses concerning seeking protection from various forms of evil, harm, and spiritual mischief.
- 12
- verses
- 11
- Meccan
- 1
- Medinan
- 0.93
- cohesion
Cohesion is how alike these verses are to the group’s centre, from 0 to 1. This is on the loose side, so the group holds together less tightly than most.
The verses
Closest to the group’s centre first.
مِن شَرِّ مَا خَلَقَ
From the evil of that which He created
وَحِفْظًا مِّن كُلِّ شَيْطَٰنٍ مَّارِدٍ
And as protection against every rebellious devil
وَمِن شَرِّ حَاسِدٍ إِذَا حَسَدَ
And from the evil of an envier when he envies."
وَمِن شَرِّ غَاسِقٍ إِذَا وَقَبَ
And from the evil of darkness when it settles
وَمِن شَرِّ ٱلنَّفَّٰثَٰتِ فِى ٱلْعُقَدِ
And from the evil of the blowers in knots
مِن شَرِّ ٱلْوَسْوَاسِ ٱلْخَنَّاسِ
From the evil of the retreating whisperer -
ٱلَّذِينَ هُمْ فِى صَلَاتِهِمْ خَٰشِعُونَ
They who are during their prayer humbly submissive
يَدْعُوا۟ لَمَن ضَرُّهُۥٓ أَقْرَبُ مِن نَّفْعِهِۦ لَبِئْسَ ٱلْمَوْلَىٰ وَلَبِئْسَ ٱلْعَشِيرُ
He invokes one whose harm is closer than his benefit - how wretched the protector and how wretched the associate.
أَلَّا تَزِرُ وَازِرَةٌ وِزْرَ أُخْرَىٰ
That no bearer of burdens will bear the burden of another
عَبْدًا إِذَا صَلَّىٰٓ
A servant when he prays?
سَأَلَ سَآئِلٌۢ بِعَذَابٍ وَاقِعٍ
A supplicant asked for a punishment bound to happen
لِّلسَّآئِلِ وَٱلْمَحْرُومِ
For the petitioner and the deprived -
Where it falls
These verses across the book in reading order. Most of them sit in Al-Falaq.
A histogram of where this topic’s verses fall across the book in reading order.
How it sounds
Measured against the whole book, so the difference is what matters.
how strongly mercy sounds
how strongly judgment sounds
how much it instructs rather than describes
how much it points beyond this life
how positive the verse feels
how charged the language is
The pale line in each bar is the whole book’s average for that channel.
Next to this
The groups sitting closest to this one in meaning.