يُونُس : ١

  • الٓرۚ Alif Lam Ra
  • تِلۡكَ These
  • ءَايَٰتُ (are the) verses
  • ٱلۡكِتَٰبِ (of) the Book
  • ٱلۡحَكِيمِ the wise
Alif, Lām, Rā.1 These are the verses of the wise Book.
Footnotes
1

See footnote to 2:1.

[511] The adjective "wise" expresses the qualities of will, purpose, discrimination and precision.

Yuunus (Jones) Meccan, except for verses 40, 94, 95 and 96, which are Medinese; it consists of 109 or 110 verses, and was revealed after [soorat] al-Israa'. Alif laam raa': God knows best what He means by these [letters]. Those, namely, these signs, are the signs of the wise Book, that is, Al-Qur'an (the genitive annexation [aayaat al-kitaab] has the meaning of min [sc. Min aayaati'l-kitaab, 'from among the verses of the Book']), which has been made clear.