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Ad-Duha — the morning brightness

Surah 93 · Ayat 3–5

مَا وَدَّعَكَ رَبُّكَ وَمَا قَلَىٰ

Your Lord ˹O Prophet˺ has not abandoned you, nor has He become hateful ˹of you˺.

وَلَلْـَٔاخِرَةُ خَيْرٌۭ لَّكَ مِنَ ٱلْأُولَىٰ

And the next life is certainly far better for you than this one.

وَلَسَوْفَ يُعْطِيكَ رَبُّكَ فَتَرْضَىٰٓ

And ˹surely˺ your Lord will give so much to you that you will be pleased.

On the choice

This surah was revealed during a silence. The revelation had stopped, and the absence was long enough that it was read as abandonment.

Archive 001 was made across a stretch that felt the same way. These three ayat are the answer that came: the silence was not what it looked like, and what follows is better than what came before.

Every archive is dated to a period. This is the one that period belongs to.