Time/Hour

They ask you about the Hour, when will it come? Say, “Its knowledge is with my Lord alone. None but Him can reveal its time. It weighs heavily upon the heavens and the earth; it will come suddenly.” They ask as if you are eager to know. Say, “Its knowledge is with Allah alone, but most people do not realize it.”

7:187They ask thee of the (destined) Hour, when will it come to port. Say: Knowledge thereof is with my Lord only. He alone will manifest it at its proper time. It is heavy in the heavens and the earth. It cometh not to you save unawares. They question thee as if thou couldst be well informed thereof. Say: Knowledge thereof is with Allah only, but most of mankind know not.

And the Hour is coming, no doubt about it, and Allah will raise those in the graves.

22:7And because the Hour will come, there is no doubt thereof; and because Allah will raise those who are in the graves.

And when it was said, “Allah’s promise is true, and the Hour is coming, no doubt about it,” you said, “We do not know what the Hour is. We think it is only speculation, and we are not convinced.”

45:32And when it was said: Lo! Allah's promise is the truth, and there is no doubt of the Hour's coming, ye said: We know not what the Hour is. We deem it naught but a conjecture, and we are by no means convinced.

And what will make you realize that the Hour may be near?

42:17Allah it is Who hath revealed the Scripture with truth, and the Balance. How canst thou know? It may be that the Hour is nigh.

But the Hour is their appointed time, and the Hour is more severe and bitter.

54:46Nay, but the Hour (of doom) is their appointed tryst, and the Hour will be more wretched and more bitter (than their earthly failure).

"Do they feel secure that Allah’s overwhelming punishment will not come upon them, or that the Hour will not strike suddenly while they remain unaware?"

12:107Deem they themselves secure from the coming on them of a pall of Allah's punishment, or the coming of the Hour suddenly while they are unaware?

26:202So that it will come upon them suddenly, when they perceive not.

29:53They bid thee hasten on the doom (of Allah). And if a term had not been appointed, the doom would assuredly have come unto them (ere now). And verily it will come upon them suddenly when they perceive not.

39:25Those before them denied, and so the doom came on them whence they knew not.

43:66Await they aught save the Hour, that it shall come upon them suddenly, when they know not?

If only the disbelievers knew that when the Fire cannot be warded off from their faces or backs.

21:39If those who disbelieved but knew the time when they will not be able to drive off the fire from their faces and from their backs, and they will not be helped!

But they deny the Hour, and We have prepared for those who deny the Hour a blazing fire.

25:11Nay, but they deny (the coming of) the Hour, and for those who deny (the coming of) the Hour We have prepared a flame.

The Hour is coming; there is no doubt. But most people do not believe.

40:59Lo! the Hour is surely coming, there is no doubt thereof; yet most of mankind believe not.

But the disbelievers will remain in doubt until the Hour overtakes them suddenly, or the punishment of a barren Day descends upon them.

22:55And those who disbelieve will not cease to be in doubt thereof until the Hour come upon them unawares, or there come unto them the doom of a disastrous day.

Are they waiting for the Hour to come upon them suddenly? Its signs have already come. But how will they remember when it arrives?

47:18Await they aught save the Hour, that it should come upon them unawares? And the beginnings thereof have already come. But how, when it hath come upon them, can they take their warning?

Burn in it, whether you bear it patiently or not, it is the same. You are only being repaid for what you used to do.”

52:16Endure the heat thereof, and whether ye are patient of it or impatient of it is all one for you. Ye are only being paid for what ye used to do.

Say, “Imagine if His punishment comes by night or day, what part of it will the guilty seek to avoid?”

10:50Say: Have ye thought: When His doom cometh unto you as a raid by night, or in the (busy) day; what is there of it that the guilty ones desire to hasten?

For the wrongdoers is a share like the share of those before them, so let them not seek to hasten it.

51:59And lo! for those who (now) do wrong there is an evil day like unto the evil day (which came for) their likes (of old); so let them not ask Me to hasten on (that day).

Do they seek to hasten Our punishment?

26:204Would they (now) hasten on Our doom?

37:176Would they hasten on Our doom?

Those who do not believe in it seek to hasten it, while those who believe are apprehensive of it, knowing it to be the truth. Indeed, those who dispute the Hour are lost.

42:18Those who believe not therein seek to hasten it, while those who believe are fearful of it and know that it is the Truth. Are not they who dispute, in doubt concerning the Hour, far astray?

Will you believe in it only when it happens? Now? Yet you used to demand it impatiently.

10:51Is it (only) then, when it hath befallen you, that ye will believe? What! (Believe) now, when (until now) ye have been hastening it on (through disbelief)?

Then they will say, “Can we have a little more time?”

26:203Then they will say: Are we to be reprieved?

Woe to the disbelievers on the Day they are promised.

51:60And woe unto those who disbelieve, from (that) their day which they are promised.