Early Muslims were persecuted in Mecca where Muhammed was not a leader, and not persecuted in Medina, where he was a protected leader. Regarding the timing and contextual background of the believed revelation ( asbāb al-nuzūl), it is an earlier " Meccan surah", which indicates a revelation in Mecca rather than in Medina. This surah and the 114th (and last) surah in the Qur'an, an-Nās, are collectively referred to as al-Mu'awwidhatayn, "the Refuges", as both begin with "I seek refuge" an-Nās tells to seek God for refuge from the evil from within, while al-Falaq tells to seek God for refuge from the evil from outside, so reading both of them would protect a person from his own mischief and the mischief of others. Say, "I seek refuge in the Lord of daybreak, From the evil of His creation And from the evil of darkness when it settles And from the evil of the blowers in knots And from the evil of an envier when he envies. It is a brief five ayat (verse) surah, asking God for protection from evil: Al-Falaq or The Daybreak ( Arabic: اَلْفَلَق, al-falaq) is the 113th chapter ( sūrah) of the Qur'an.
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