Surah 109

Al-Kāfirūn

الكافرون

6 verses · Meccan

Key structural observations

The surah is structured as a system of four locks: it does not merely negate compromise, it seals the sanctuary of worship against present mixing, false equivalence, inherited continuity, and imagined future overlap.
Its repeated negations are therefore not redundancy but anti-dilution architecture: the text closes every small window through which tawḥīd might be softened in the name of peace or practicality.
The final line does not relativise truth; it establishes peace through clarity: the house remains open to conduct, but the source of worship remains unshared.

بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَٰنِ الرَّحِيمِ

قُلْ يَا أَيُّهَا الْكَافِرُونَ

لَا أَعْبُدُ مَا تَعْبُدُونَ

وَلَا أَنْتُمْ عَابِدُونَ مَا أَعْبُدُ

وَلَا أَنَا عَابِدٌ مَا عَبَدْتُمْ

وَلَا أَنْتُمْ عَابِدُونَ مَا أَعْبُدُ

لَكُمْ دِينُكُمْ وَلِيَ دِينِ