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Al-'Asr — The Declining Day

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Surah Al-'Asr (The Declining Day, العصر) is the 103rd surah of the Noble Quran — a Meccan surah of 3 verses. Read it below in Arabic with the English translation of Marmaduke Pickthall, and listen verse by verse to famous Egyptian reciters.

بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ
103:1
وَٱلْعَصْرِ ١
By the declining day,
103:2
إِنَّ ٱلْإِنسَٰنَ لَفِى خُسْرٍ ٢
Lo! man is a state of loss,
103:3
إِلَّا ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوا۟ وَعَمِلُوا۟ ٱلصَّٰلِحَٰتِ وَتَوَاصَوْا۟ بِٱلْحَقِّ وَتَوَاصَوْا۟ بِٱلصَّبْرِ ٣
Save those who believe and do good works, and exhort one another to truth and exhort one another to endurance.

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Arabic text: Tanzil Project (tanzil.net) · English translation: M. M. Pickthall · Recitations: mp3quran.net
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