ٱلْحِجْر : ١

  • الٓرۚ Alif Laam Ra
  • تِلۡكَ These
  • ءَايَٰتُ (are) the Verses
  • ٱلۡكِتَٰبِ (of) the Book
  • وَقُرۡءَانٖ and Quran
  • مُّبِينٖ clear
Alif, Lām, Rā.1 These are the verses of the Book and a clear Qur’ān [i.e., recitation].
Footnotes
1 See footnote to 2:1.
Al-Hijr (the Rocky Tract) Meccan, consisting of 99 verses. Alif laam raa': God knows best what He means by these [letters]. Those - these verses - are the verses of the Book, Al-Qur'an (aayaatu'l-kitaabi: this annexation functions in the sense of min, 'from') and of a manifest Qur'aan, one that makes evident what is truth and what is falsehood (wa-qur'aanin mubeenin is [made up of] a supplement with an added adjectival qualification).