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Al-'Aṣr takes its name from a word in verse 1.

A very early Meccan Sûrah.

In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful. By the declining day, Lo! man is in a state of loss, Save those who believe and do good works, and exhort one another to truth and exhort one another to endurance. Rh