قُلْ يَـٰٓأَيُّهَا ٱلْكَـٰفِرُونَ
Say, "O disbelievers,
بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَٰنِ الرَّحِيمِ
قُلْ يَـٰٓأَيُّهَا ٱلْكَـٰفِرُونَ
Say, "O disbelievers,
لَآ أَعْبُدُ مَا تَعْبُدُونَ
I do not worship what you worship.
وَلَآ أَنتُمْ عَـٰبِدُونَ مَآ أَعْبُدُ
Nor are you worshippers of what I worship.
وَلَآ أَنَا۠ عَابِدٌ مَّا عَبَدتُّمْ
Nor will I be a worshipper of what you worship.
وَلَآ أَنتُمْ عَـٰبِدُونَ مَآ أَعْبُدُ
Nor will you be worshippers of what I worship.
لَكُمْ دِينُكُمْ وَلِىَ دِينِ
For you is your religion, and for me is my religion."
Al-Kafirun was revealed when Quraysh proposed alternating worship — a year for their idols, a year for Allah. It is the Quran's decisive refusal to compromise on monotheism, sealed with the verse: 'For you is your religion, and for me is my religion' (109:6).
Al-Kafirun (الكافرون) means "The Disbelievers" in English. It is chapter 109 of the Holy Quran.
Surah Al-Kafirun has 6 verses (ayat). It appears on pages 603 to 603 of the mushaf.
Surah Al-Kafirun is a Makki surah, revealed in Makkah before the Prophet's ﷺ migration to Madinah.
Al-Kafirun was revealed when Quraysh proposed alternating worship — a year for their idols, a year for Allah. It is the Quran's decisive refusal to compromise on monotheism, sealed with the verse: 'For you is your religion, and for me is my religion' (109:6).
The Prophet ﷺ regularly recited Al-Kafirun together with Al-Ikhlas in the two rak'ahs before Fajr and after Maghrib (Sahih Muslim), and advised reciting it before sleep as a disavowal of shirk (Abu Dawud, At-Tirmidhi).