Surah 095

At-Tīn

التين

8 verses · Meccan

Key structural observations

The surah is structured as a moral axis of stature: the human is created in the best form, then measured by whether that dignity is honoured or betrayed under the law of dīn.
Its central reversal is that decline is not a denial of original dignity but the consequence of failing to live up to its entrusted measure.
The surah therefore binds anthropology to accountability: to deny the dīn is, structurally, to deny the very measure by which human worth remains upright.

بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَٰنِ الرَّحِيمِ

وَالتِّينِ وَالزَّيْتُونِ

وَطُورِ سِينِينَ

وَهَٰذَا الْبَلَدِ الْأَمِينِ

لَقَدْ خَلَقْنَا الْإِنْسَانَ فِي أَحْسَنِ تَقْوِيمٍ

ثُمَّ رَدَدْنَاهُ أَسْفَلَ سَافِلِينَ

إِلَّا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا وَعَمِلُوا الصَّالِحَاتِ فَلَهُمْ أَجْرٌ غَيْرُ مَمْنُونٍ

فَمَا يُكَذِّبُكَ بَعْدُ بِالدِّينِ

أَلَيْسَ اللَّهُ بِأَحْكَمِ الْحَاكِمِينَ