Which Surah and Juz is Quran 25:45 from?

This ayah is from Surah Al-Furqaan (The Criterion), the 25th surah of the Quran. It appears in Juz 19.

Are there hadiths related to Quran 25:45?

Yes — there are 5 hadiths related to this ayah from Sahih al-Bukhari, Sahih Muslim, Sunan Abu Dawud.

What tafsir is available for Quran 25:45?

Commentary on this ayah is available from Ibn Kathir, Ibn Kathir, Al-Jalalayn, Ibn Abbas — classical scholars of Quranic exegesis.

What topics does Quran 25:45 relate to?

This ayah connects to these Quranic topics: Divine Signs, Divine Power, Tawhid, Creation, Natural Phenomena.

Ayah 44

أَمْ تَحْسَبُ أَنَّ أَكْثَرَهُمْ يَسْمَعُونَ أَوْ ...

25:45Al-Furqaan

Q: What does Quran 25:45 mean?

Quran 25:45 (Surah Al-Furqaan, Ayah 45) translates to: "Have you not considered your Lord - how He extends the shadow, and if He willed, He could have made it stationary? Then We made the sun for it an indication."

Ayah 46

ثُمَّ قَبَضْنَٰهُ إِلَيْنَا قَبْضًۭا يَسِيرًۭا...

أَلَمْ تَرَ إِلَىٰ رَبِّكَ كَيْفَ مَدَّ ٱلظِّلَّ وَلَوْ شَآءَ لَجَعَلَهُۥ سَاكِنًۭا ثُمَّ جَعَلْنَا ٱلشَّمْسَ عَلَيْهِ دَلِيلًۭا

Alam tara ilaa Rabbika kaifa maddaz zilla wa law shaaa'a laja'alahoo saakinan summa ja'alnash shamsa 'alaihe daleelaa

Have you not considered your Lord - how He extends the shadow, and if He willed, He could have made it stationary? Then We made the sun for it an indication.

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Signs in creation

25:45Ayah 177

11 ayahs in Al-Furqaan are strongly about signs in creation. This is one of them.

← Previous on Signs in creation25:2He to whom belongs the dominion of the heavens and the earth and who has not taken a son and has not had a partner in dominion and has created each thing and…Next on Signs in creation →25:46Then We hold it in hand for a brief grasp.

Tafsir

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Have you not seen contemplated the work of your Lord how He extends the twilight shadow? from the point of daybreak to the point of sunrise. For had He your Lord willed He would have made it still ever-present so that it does not disappear with the rising of the sun. Then We made the sun an indicator of it of the shadow; were it not for the sun the shadow would not have been known.

I asked the Prophet (ﷺ) regarding the Verse:--'And the sun runs on its fixed course for a term decreed for it.' (36.28) He said, "Its fixed course is underneath Allah's Throne."

Sahih Muslim #307Abu Dharr reported:Sahih

I asked the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) the (implication of the) words of Allah, the Exalted: The sun glides to its appointed resting place. He replied: Its appointed resting place is under the Throne.

Sahih Muslim #1278A'isha reported:Sahih

The Apostle of Allah (ﷺ) said the afternoon" prayer as the sun shone in my apartment, and the afternoon shadow did not extend further. Abu Bakr said: The afternoon shadow did not appear to extend further.

Sunan Abu Dawud #4823Narrated AbuHurayrah:Sahih

AbulQasim (ﷺ) said: When one of you is in the sun (Shams)--Makhlad's version has "fay'"--and the shadow withdraws from him so that he is partly in sun and partly in shade, he should get up.

Sunan Abu Dawud #400Narrated Abdullah ibn Mas'ud:Sahih

The extent of the shadow when the Messenger of Allah prayed (the noon prayer) was three to five feet in summer and five to seven feet in winter.