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Surah ’Abasa, Verse 21

سورة عبس، الآية ٢١

80:21 Juz 30 Hizb 59 Page 585 of the mushaf Meccan surah

Text of verse 80:21

ثُمَّ أَمَاتَهُۥ فَأَقْبَرَهُۥ ۝٢١

Transliteration

thumma amātahu fa-aqbarahu

Translation

Then He causes his death and provides a grave for him.¹⁸⁶¹

Notes

[1861] To conceal his decaying body.

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Verse 21 of Surah ’Abasa (80:21), a Meccan surah, is in juz 30, on page 585 of the mushaf. Read it in Arabic with its transliteration, translations and tafsir, and listen to it recited by 73 reciters.

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Tafsir of verse 21

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Then, after spending the amount of life decreed for him, Allah caused death upon him and made a grave for him wherein he remains until he is resurrected.

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Other translations of verse 21

then He caused him to die and be buried;

Then He causes him to die and puts him in his grave.

Then causeth him to die, and burieth him;

Then He causeth him to die, and putteth him in his grave;

Then He causes him to die, then assigns to him a grave,

Thereafter He makes him to die, so He entombs him,

Verse 21 word by word

ثُمَّ thumma Then
أَمَاتَهُۥ amātahu He causes him to die م و ت
فَأَقْبَرَهُۥ fa-aqbarahu and provides a grave for him ق ب ر

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