Wikipedia's first sentence called it “the 81st sura of the qur'an with 29 ayat”. Today it says “eighty-first chapter”.
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81st chapter of the Qur'an At-Takwīr ( , literally "The Turning Into a Sphere") is the eighty-first chapter ( sura ) of the Qur'an , with 29 verses ( ayat ). It tells about signs of the coming of the day of judgement.1Some of these signs include the following: (a) When the sun is covered in darkness (solar eclipse), (b) When the stars fall, (c) And when the mountains vanish (blown away), (d) When the camels big with young are abandoned. (e) And when the wild beasts are herded together (f) And when the seas rise, (g) And when the souls are sorted, (h) And when the girl [who was] buried alive is asked, (i) For what crime she was killed? (j) And when the books [records of deeds] are open, (k) And when the sky is torn away, (l) And when Hell is set ablaze, (m) And when Paradise draws near, (n) Then every Soul shall know what it has done.2
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The opening as it stood in 2005
Surat At-Takwir (The Overthrowing) is the 81st sura of the Qur'an with 29 ayat. v t e
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Surat At-Takwir ( ) (The Overthrowing) is the 81st sura of the Qur'an with 29 ayat . The prohibition of female infanticide was revealed in ayat 8,9 of this Sura: "And when the female (infant) buried alive (as the pagan Arabs used to do) shall be questioned:(8) For what sin she was killed?
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The opening as it stood in 2015
Sūrat al-Takwīr ( sūrat at-takwīr , “the Overthrowing chapter”) is the 81st sura of the Qur'an with 29 ayat .It tells about signs of the coming of the day of judgement.Some of these signs include the following: (a) When the sun is shrouded in darkness (b) When the stars lose their light (c) When the mountains are made to vanish (d) When the seas boil over (e) when the she camel about to give birth is left untended. The condemnation of female infanticide was revealed in ayat 8,9 of this Sura: "And when the female (infant) buried alive (as the pagan Arabs used to do) shall be questioned: (8) For what sin she was killed?
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81st chapter of the Qur'an Sūrat at-Takwīr ( , “The Overthrowing”, literally “The Turning Into a Sphere”) is the eighty-first sura of the Qur'an with 29 ayat . It tells about signs of the coming of the day of judgement. Some of these signs include the following: (a) When the sun is shrouded in darkness (turns into a sphere) (b) When the stars lose their light (c) When the mountains are made to vanish (d) When the seas boil over (e) when the she camel about to give birth is left untended.
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81st chapter of the Qur'an At-Takwīr ( Arabic : التكوير , literally "The Turning Into a Sphere") is the eighty-first chapter ( sura ) of the Qur'an , with 29 verses ( ayat ). It tells about the signs of the coming of the day of judgement in Islam .
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the 81st sura of the qur'an with 29 ayat
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eighty-first chapter
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