Circumstances of Revelation
Where and when each sūrah was revealed, and the occasions reported for its verses, summarized from Tafsīr al-Mīzān with the ʿAllāmah's view of the reports.
| No. | Chapter | Meaning | Circumstances |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Al-Fātiḥah | The Opening | Read |
| 2 | Al-Baqarah | The Cow | Read |
| 3 | Āl ʿImrān | The Family of Imrān | Read |
| 4 | Al-Nisāʾ | The Women | Read |
| 5 | Al-Māʾidah | The Table | Read |
| 6 | Al-Anʿām | The Cattle | Read |
| 7 | Al-Aʿrāf | The Heights | Read |
| 8 | Al-Anfāl | The Spoils of War | Read |
| 9 | Al-Tawbah | The Repentance | Read |
| 10 | Yūnus | Jonah | Read |
| 11 | Hūd | Hūd | Read |
| 12 | Yūsuf | Joseph | Read |
| 13 | Al-Raʿd | The Thunder | Read |
| 14 | Ibrāhīm | Abraham | Read |
| 15 | Al-Ḥijr | The Rocky Tract | Read |
| 16 | Al-Naḥl | The Bee | Read |
| 17 | Al-Isrāʾ | The Night Journey | Read |
| 18 | Al-Kahf | The Cave | Read |
| 19 | Maryam | Mary | Read |
| 20 | Ṭā Hā | Ṭā Hā | Read |
| 21 | Al-Anbiyāʾ | The Prophets | Read |
| 22 | Al-Ḥajj | The Pilgrimage | Read |
| 23 | Al-Muʾminūn | The Believers | Read |
| 24 | Al-Nūr | The Light | Read |
| 25 | Al-Furqān | The Criterion | Read |
| 26 | Al-Shuʿarāʾ | The Poets | Read |
| 27 | Al-Naml | The Ant | Read |
| 28 | Al-Qaṣaṣ | The Story | Read |
| 29 | Al-ʿAnkabūt | The Spider | Read |
| 30 | Al-Rūm | The Romans | Read |
| 31 | Luqmān | Luqmān | Read |
| 32 | Al-Sajdah | The Prostration | Read |
| 33 | Al-Aḥzāb | The Confederates | Read |
| 34 | Sabaʾ | Sheba | Read |
| 35 | Fāṭir | The Originator | Read |
| 36 | Yā Sīn | Yā Sīn | Read |
| 37 | Al-Ṣāffāt | Those Ranged in Ranks | Read |
| 38 | Ṣād | Ṣād | Read |
| 39 | Al-Zumar | The Companies | Read |
| 40 | Ghāfir | The Forgiver | Read |
| 41 | Fuṣṣilat | Explained in Detail | Read |
| 42 | Al-Shūrā | The Consultation | Read |
| 43 | Al-Zukhruf | The Ornaments | Read |
| 44 | Al-Dukhān | The Smoke | Read |
| 45 | Al-Jāthiyah | The Kneeling | Read |
| 46 | Al-Aḥqāf | The Sand Dunes | Read |
| 47 | Muḥammad | Muḥammad | Read |
| 48 | Al-Fatḥ | The Victory | Read |
| 49 | Al-Ḥujurāt | The Chambers | Read |
| 50 | Qāf | Qāf | Read |
| 51 | Al-Dhāriyāt | The Scatterers | Read |
| 52 | Al-Ṭūr | The Mount | Read |
| 53 | Al-Najm | The Star | Read |
| 54 | Al-Qamar | The Moon | Read |
| 55 | Al-Raḥmān | The Beneficent | Read |
| 56 | Al-Wāqiʿah | The Event | Read |
| 57 | Al-Ḥadīd | The Iron | Read |
| 58 | Al-Mujādilah | The Pleading Woman | Read |
| 59 | Al-Ḥashr | The Banishment | Read |
| 60 | Al-Mumtaḥanah | The Examined One | Read |
| 61 | Al-Ṣaff | The Ranks | Read |
| 62 | Al-Jumuʿah | Friday | Read |
| 63 | Al-Munāfiqūn | The Hypocrites | Read |
| 64 | Al-Taghābun | Mutual Loss and Gain | Read |
| 65 | Al-Ṭalāq | Divorce | Read |
| 66 | Al-Taḥrīm | The Prohibition | Read |
| 67 | Al-Mulk | The Kingdom | Read |
| 68 | Al-Qalam | The Pen | Read |
| 69 | Al-Ḥāqqah | The Sure Reality | Read |
| 70 | Al-Maʿārij | The Ways of Ascent | Read |
| 71 | Nūḥ | Noah | Read |
| 72 | Al-Jinn | The Jinn | Read |
| 73 | Al-Muzzammil | The Wrapped One | Read |
| 74 | Al-Muddaththir | The Cloaked One | Read |
| 75 | Al-Qiyāmah | The Resurrection | Read |
| 76 | Al-Insān | Man | Read |
| 77 | Al-Mursalāt | Those Sent Forth | Read |
| 78 | Al-Nabaʾ | The Tidings | Read |
| 79 | Al-Nāziʿāt | Those Who Pull Out | Read |
| 80 | ʿAbasa | He Frowned | Read |
| 81 | Al-Takwīr | The Folding Up | Read |
| 82 | Al-Infiṭār | The Cleaving | Read |
| 83 | Al-Muṭaffifīn | The Defrauders | Read |
| 84 | Al-Inshiqāq | The Rending | Read |
| 85 | Al-Burūj | The Constellations | Read |
| 86 | Al-Ṭāriq | The Night-Comer | Read |
| 87 | Al-Aʿlā | The Most High | Read |
| 88 | Al-Ghāshiyah | The Overwhelming Event | Read |
| 89 | Al-Fajr | The Dawn | Read |
| 90 | Al-Balad | The City | Read |
| 91 | Al-Shams | The Sun | Read |
| 92 | Al-Layl | The Night | Read |
| 93 | Al-Ḍuḥā | The Morning Brightness | Read |
| 94 | Al-Sharḥ | The Expansion | Read |
| 95 | Al-Tīn | The Fig | Read |
| 96 | Al-ʿAlaq | The Clot | Read |
| 97 | Al-Qadr | The Majesty | Read |
| 98 | Al-Bayyinah | The Clear Evidence | Read |
| 99 | Al-Zalzalah | The Earthquake | Read |
| 100 | Al-ʿĀdiyāt | The Chargers | Read |
| 101 | Al-Qāriʿah | The Calamity | Read |
| 102 | Al-Takāthur | Rivalry in Increase | Read |
| 103 | Al-ʿAṣr | Time | Read |
| 104 | Al-Humazah | The Slanderer | Read |
| 105 | Al-Fīl | The Elephant | Read |
| 106 | Quraysh | Quraysh | Read |
| 107 | Al-Māʿūn | Small Kindnesses | Read |
| 108 | Al-Kawthar | Abundance | Read |
| 109 | Al-Kāfirūn | The Disbelievers | Read |
| 110 | Al-Naṣr | The Help | Read |
| 111 | Al-Masad | The Palm Fibre | Read |
| 112 | Al-Ikhlāṣ | Sincerity | Read |
| 113 | Al-Falaq | The Daybreak | Read |
| 114 | Al-Nās | Mankind | Read |