Ayat-Al-Kursi

The Story Behind Ayat-Al-Kursi

Ayat-Al-Kursi is Hadiqa Kiani's 2020 recitation of the Qur'an's Throne Verse, released as a standalone devotional recording. The passage is verse 255 of Surah Al-Baqarah, with its Arabic text providing the foundation of the performance.

Kiani's official channel published the three-minute, fourteen-second video on 4 June 2020, describing it as a recitation with translation. Apple Music dates the digital single to 9 June that year. The upload credits Kiani as the reciter and presents the recording under her own name. Its focus is the delivery of a single scriptural passage, whose words centre on God's knowledge and sustaining power. The translation signalled in the video title gives listeners another way to engage with the meaning of the Arabic verse.

Meaning & Translation

Ayat-Al-Kursi means "Verse of the Seat" and is commonly known in English as the Throne Verse. Its focus is God's oneness, knowledge and sustaining power: creation depends on Him, while human understanding remains limited. References to sleep and weariness emphasise that divine care does not falter. The image of the kursi encompassing heaven and earth conveys the reach of God's authority. In this recitation, those ideas give the passage its devotional centre, directing attention toward trust in God and humility about what people can know.