A Study of the Semantic Reflection of Ashura Movement in Surah al-Fajr

Al-Fajr is a Quranic surah or chapter revealed in Mecca containing 30 verses, 139 words, and 509 letters. Like many other chapters that contain verses revealed in Mecca it is short, shocking, filled with substance, and delivers a lot of warnings. Therefore, this surah is called the Surah of Hussein Ibn Ali dealing with his martyrdom and uprising during and against an era of darkness rightly to act as a dawn and a new origin for life and movement. In this surah, we deal with many swears or oaths that are unique in their kind, such as when we swear by Fajr and we mean "the beginning of the rituals of the month of Muharram, to refer to ‘Ashura and its relation to the start of the new year and the tenth day of Muharram in the year 61 AH, when the purest blood was shed, these are among many other issues which have been studied in this article.