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Surah Ad-Dukhan, Verse 13

سورة الدخان، الآية ١٣

44:13 Juz 25 Hizb 50 Page 496 of the mushaf Meccan surah

Text of verse 44:13

أَنَّىٰ لَهُمُ ٱلذِّكْرَىٰ وَقَدْ جَآءَهُمْ رَسُولٌ مُّبِينٌ ۝١٣

Transliteration

annā lahumu l-dhik'rā waqad jāahum rasūlun mubīnun

Translation

How will there be for them a reminder [at that time]? And there had come to them a clear Messenger.

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Verse 13 of Surah Ad-Dukhan (44:13), a Meccan surah, is in juz 25, on page 496 of the mushaf. Read it in Arabic with its transliteration, translations and tafsir, and listen to it recited by 74 reciters.

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Tafsir of verse 13

Al-Mukhtasar

How can they take heed and repent to their Lord now, when a clear Messenger came to them before, and they knew of his truthfulness and honesty?

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Other translations of verse 13

How will they take heed, when a messenger who explained things clearly has already come to them?

How can there be for them an admonition (at the time when the torment has reached them), when a Messenger explaining things clearly has already come to them.

How can there be remembrance for them, when a messenger making plain (the Truth) had already come unto them,

How shall the message be (effectual) for them, seeing that an Messenger explaining things clearly has (already) come to them,-

How shall they be reminded, and there came to them an Messenger making clear (the truth),

However could they have the Reminding, and an evident Messenger has already come to them,

Verse 13 word by word

  1. أَنَّىٰ annā How can
  2. لَهُمُ lahumu (there be) for them
  3. ٱلذِّكْرَىٰ l-dhik'rā the reminder ذ ك ر
  4. وَقَدْ waqad when verily
  5. جَآءَهُمْ jāahum had come to them ج ي أ
  6. رَسُولٌ rasūlun a Messenger ر س ل
  7. مُّبِينٌ mubīnun clear ب ي ن

Hadiths that cite this verse

Authentic Muttafaq ‘alayh (Bukhari and Muslim) Sahih al-Bukhari 4809

We came upon `Abdullah bin Mas`ud and he said "O people! If somebody knows something, he can say it, but if he does not know it, he should say, "Allah knows better,' for it is a sign of having knowledge to say about something which one does not know, 'Allah knows better.' Allah said to His Prophet…

اللَّهُمَّ أَعِنِّي عَلَيْهِمْ بِسَبْعٍ كَسَبْعِ يُوسُفَ ‏"

Narrated by Abdullah ibn Mas‘ūd + 9 other versions

Authentic Muttafaq ‘alayh (Bukhari and Muslim) Sahih al-Bukhari 4823

I came upon `Abdullah and he said, "When Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) invited Quraish (to Islam), they disbelieved him and stood against him. So he (the Prophet) said, "O Allah! Help me against them by afflicting them with seven years of famine similar to the seven years of Joseph.' So they were stricken…

اللَّهُمَّ أَعِنِّي عَلَيْهِمْ بِسَبْعٍ كَسَبْعِ يُوسُفَ ‏"

Narrated by Abdullah ibn Mas‘ūd + 9 other versions

Authentic Muttafaq ‘alayh (Bukhari and Muslim) Sahih al-Bukhari 1007

We were with `Abdullah and he said, "When the Prophet (ﷺ) saw the refusal of the people to accept Islam he said, "O Allah! Send (famine) years on them for (seven years) like the seven years (of famine during the time) of (Prophet) Joseph." So famine overtook them for one year and destroyed every…

اللَّهُمَّ سَبْعٌ كَسَبْعِ يُوسُفَ ‏"‏‏.‏ فَأَخَذَتْهُمْ سَنَةٌ حَصَّتْ كُلَّ شَىْءٍ حَتَّى أَكَلُوا الْجُلُودَ وَالْمَيْتَةَ وَالْجِيَفَ، وَيَنْظُرَ أَحَدُهُمْ إِلَى السَّمَاءِ فَيَرَى الدُّخَانَ مِنَ الْجُوعِ

Narrated by Abdullah ibn Mas‘ūd + 9 other versions

Authentic Sahih al-Bukhari 1020

One day I went to Ibn Mas`ud who said, "When Quraish delayed in embracing Islam, the Prophet (ﷺ) I invoked Allah to curse them, so they were afflicted with a (famine) year because of which many of them died and they ate the carcasses and Abu Sufyan came to the Prophet (ﷺ) and said, 'O Muhammad! You…

اللَّهُمَّ حَوَالَيْنَا وَلاَ عَلَيْنَا ‏"‏‏.‏ فَانْحَدَرَتِ السَّحَابَةُ عَنْ رَأْسِهِ، فَسُقُوا النَّاسُ حَوْلَهُمْ‏.‏

Narrated by Abdullah ibn Mas‘ūd

Verses related to verse 13

Cited by Ibn Kathir in his explanation of this verse

  • Al-Fajr 89:23–24

    وَجِا۟ىٓءَ يَوْمَئِذٍۭ بِجَهَنَّمَ يَوْمَئِذٍ يَتَذَكَّرُ ٱلْإِنسَٰنُ وَأَنَّىٰ لَهُ ٱلذِّكْرَىٰ …

    And brought [within view], that Day, is Hell - that Day, man will remember, but how [i.e., what good] to him will be the remembrance? …

  • Saba 34:51–54

    وَلَوْ تَرَىٰٓ إِذْ فَزِعُوا۟ فَلَا فَوْتَ وَأُخِذُوا۟ مِن مَّكَانٍ قَرِيبٍ …

    And if you could see when they are terrified but there is no escape, and they will be seized from a place nearby. …

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