Surah # 103 - Al 'Asr

 (Arabic: سورة العصر‎ ) (The Declining Day, Eventide, The Epoch, Time)

This is the 103rd sūrah of the Qur’ān. It contains three ayaah.

 Surah Al-‘Asr is the second shortest surah after Al-Kawthar. 

                  THEME 

 This Surah is a matchless specimen of comprehensiveness and brevity. A whole world of meaning has been compressed into its few brief words, which is too vast in content to be fully expressed even in a book. 

In it, in a clear and plain way it has been stated what is the way to true success for man and what is the way to ruin and destruction for him. 

       SUBJECT MATTER 

 It teaches that all human beings are in loss, except those who have Imaan (concept), do righteous deeds and remind others of the Haqq (truth, rights, reality) and remind others of Sabr (patience).

Imam Shafi has very rightly said that if the people only considered this Surah well, it alone would suffice them for their guidance. 

 How important this Surah was in the sight of the Companions can be judged from the tradition cited from Hadrat Abdullah bin Hisn ad-Darimi Abu Madinah, according to which whenever any two of them met they would not part company until they had recited Surah Al- 'Asr to each other (Tabarani).