Quran Universe
54:22

وَلَقَدۡ يَسَّرۡنَا ٱلۡقُرۡءَانَ لِلذِّكۡرِ فَهَلۡ مِن مُّدَّكِرٖ

Walaqad yassarna alqurana lilththikri fahal min muddakirin

And We have certainly made the Qur'an easy for remembrance, so is there any who will remember?

Word by word
  1. وَلَقَدۡAnd certainly
  2. يَسَّرۡنَاWe have made easy
  3. ٱلۡقُرۡءَانَthe Quran
  4. لِلذِّكۡرِfor remembrance
  5. فَهَلۡso is (there)
  6. مِنany
  7. مُّدَّكِرٖwho will receive admonition
Al-Qamar · 54:22Makkah

The Quran is easy to remember. Will anyone?

The invitation again, after Ad

After the story of Ad
Ad's lessonstrength is no shelter
kept in
an easy Quranfor whoever will remember
The open door
only a threatwhat I hear
an invitationtake the lesson, easily

After Ad, the surah does not end with the wind. It ends with an offer: We have made the Quran easy to remember. Ibn Kathir includes this verse in the story of Ad. Their lesson is kept in a book anyone can carry.

A friend learned the hard way, and you got the lesson free in a five-minute conversation. The Quran hands you whole nations' lessons for the cost of reading.

I will learn my lessons the hard way, like everyone.

The Quran lets me learn from Ad without living through their end.

Try this

Read the story of Hud in the Quran this week, even a few verses.

Simplified reflection. Read the tafsir for scholarship.draft
Tafsir Ibn Kathir (shared passage from 54:18)

'Ad denied; then how was My torment and My warnings (18)Verily, We sent against them a violently cold (Sarsar) wind on a day of calamity, continuous (19)Plucking out men as if they were uprooted stems of date palms (20)Then, how was My torment and My warnings (21)And We have indeed made the Qur'an easy to understand and remember; then is there any that will remember (22)

The Story of 'Ad

Allah states that 'Ad, the People of Hud, denied their Messenger, just as the people of Nuh did. So, Allah sent on them,

عَلَيْهِمْ رِيحًا صَرْصَرًا 

(against them a violently cold (Sarsar) wind), means, a bitterly cold and furious wind,

 فِي يَوْمِ نَحْسٍ

(on a day of calamity), against them, according to Ad-Dahhak, Qatadah and As-Suddi,

 مُسْتَمِرٍّ

(continuous), upon them because the calamity, torment and destruction that they suffered in this life on that day continued with that of the Hereafter,

تَنْزِعُ النَّاسَ كَأَنَّهُمْ أَعْجَازُ نَخْلٍ مُنْقَعِرٍ 

(Plucking out men as if they were uprooted stems of date palms.)

The wind would pluck one of them and raise him high, until he could no longer be seen, and then violently send him down on his head to the ground. His head would be smashed and only his body would be left, headless,

كَأَنَّهُمْ أَعْجَازُ نَخْلٍ مُنْقَعِرٍ - فَكَيْفَ كَانَ عَذَابِي وَنُذُرِ - وَلَقَدْ يَسَّرْنَا الْقُرْآنَ لِلذِّكْرِ فَهَلْ مِنْ مُدَّكِرٍ

(as if they were uprooted stems of date palms. Then, how was My torment and My warnings? And We have indeed made the Qur'an easy to understand and remember; then is there any that will remember?)