Learn Surah Al falaq Quran for Kids القرآن للأطفال تعلّم سورة الفلق

The Daybreak ^[1] (Arabic: اَلْفَلَق‎, al-falaq) is the 113th chapter (sūrah) of the Qur'an. It is a brief five verse invocation, asking God for protection from the evil:

۝ ^[2] Say, "I seek refuge in the Lord of daybreak^{[3][o 1]}

۝ From the evil of that which He created^{[p 1]}

۝ And from the evil of darkness when it settles ^{[q 1]}

۝ And from the evil of the blowers in knots ^{[5] [r 1]}

۝ And from the evil of the blowers in knots^[3][9]

Sale notes:

1. ^ o The original word properly signifies a cleaving, and denotes, says Baidawi, the production of all things from the darkness of privation to the light of existence. Hence it is used more particularly to signify the breaking forth of the light from darkness.

1. ^ p ie from the mischiefs/evils proceeding either from the perverseness and evil choice of those beings wirh free will, or the effects of necessary natural agents: fire, poison etc, the world being good in the whole, though evils may follow from those two causes.^[4]

1. ^ q May also be rendered, "From the mischief of the moon, when she is eclipsed".

1. ^ r Witches, were believed to tie string into a number of knots while blowing upon them and murmuring magic incantations.^[6][7] The Knots which the wizards in the northern parts tie, when they sell mariners a wind (if the stories told of them be true), are also relics of the same superstition.
   The commentators relate that Lobeid, a Jew, with the assistance of his daughters, bewitched Mohammed, by tying eleven knots on a cord, which they hid in a well; whereupon Mohammed falling ill, GOD revealed this chapter and the following, and Gabriel acquainted him with the use he was to make of them, and of the place where the cord was hidden: according to whose directions the prophet sent Ali to fetch the cord, and the same being brought, he repeated the two chapters over it, and at every verse (for they consist of eleven) a knot was loosed, till on finishing the last words, he was entirely freed from the charm.^[4][8]