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Surah ’Abasa, Verse 5

سورة عبس، الآية ٥

80:5 Juz 30 Hizb 59 Page 585 of the mushaf Meccan surah

Text of verse 80:5

أَمَّا مَنِ ٱسْتَغْنَىٰ ۝٥

Transliteration

ammā mani is'taghnā

Translation

As for he who thinks himself without need,¹⁸⁵⁵

Notes

[1855] i.e., without need of faith or need of Allāh (subḥānahu wa taʿālā) . Here it is in reference to a certain influential member of the Quraysh whom the Prophet (ﷺ) had hoped to bring to Islām.

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Verse 5 of Surah ’Abasa (80:5), 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 5

Al-Mukhtasar

As for those who feel they have no need to bring faith in what you have brought, due to the wealth they possess.

Tafsir of the whole Surah ’Abasa

Other translations of verse 5

But he who was indifferent³,

Notes

[3] Towards faith. Here it is referring to that influential pagan of the Quraysh whom the Prophet (ﷺ) had hoped to embrace Islam.

As for him who thinks himself self-sufficient,

As for him who thinketh himself independent,

As to one who regards Himself as self-sufficient,

As for him who considers himself free from need (of you),

(But) as for him who thinks himself self- sufficient,

Verse 5 word by word

أَمَّا ammā As for
مَنِ mani (him) who
ٱسْتَغْنَىٰ is'taghnā considers himself free from need غ ن ي

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