Qur'anic Themes

The aim and theme of each chapter of the Qur'an, based on Tafsīr al-Mīzān.

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