![]() They will be winners and will be rewarded for their faith and their good deeds and actions. It is also a glad tiding for the believers who do good deeds, who exhort righteousness and patience. It is a call from Allah to those who lack faith, to those who do not do good deeds and those who do not exhort (or urge) one another to Truth and Patience to wake up, to avoid becoming losers before it is too late. This Surah is a warning to those who do not listen, the misguided and those who are blinded by their whims and desires not to waste or misuse life. Allah excludes those who believe with all their hearts and do good deeds and also exhort (or urge) one another to Truth and Patience or constancy. The subject of the oath is that mankind, or Al Insan is in loss except those who believe and do righteous deeds. On that day, everyone will find out through his final account and last Balance Sheet whether he or she is in profit or in loss. ![]() Every day we grow older, every day we come closer to our destiny, to the Day of Reckoning. All other creations are affected by time including us. ![]() Others say that it means Time through the ages. ![]() Some scholars, like Malik, say that ‘Asr here means the time of the ‘Asr prayer. In this Surah, Allah is making an oath by Al ‘Asr, by Time. “By Time (through the ages), Verily, man is in loss, Except those who have faith and do righteous deeds and exhort one another to Truth and exhort one another to patience and constancy.
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