Al-Mu'awwidhatayn

Al-Mu'awwidhatayn (Arabic: المعوذتين) is an Arabic expression referring to the last two surahs (chapters) of the Quran: 113 (Al-Falaq) and 114 (Al-Nas). These surahs have been grouped with each other in this manner both because of their consecutive appearance in the Quran and because of the stylistic resemblances between each other, both functioning as incantations that appeal to God's protection from evils or ailments. Some in the Islamic tradition have claimed that the two surahs were also revealed at the same time to Muhammad.

Some scholars have argued that the content and style of the Al-Mu'awwidhatayn is "wholly different" from the rest of that in the Quran. Relatedly, the placement of the Al-Mu'awwidhatayn in the Quran appears to have been disputed in the earliest years of Islam, as these two surahs, along with Surah Al-Fatihah (the first chapter of the Uthmanic codex used today), are absent from the codex of Ibn Mas'ud, one of Muhammad's companions.^[1][2]