سورة الذاريات، الآية ١٦
ءَاخِذِينَ مَآ ءَاتَىٰهُمْ رَبُّهُمْ إِنَّهُمْ كَانُوا۟ قَبْلَ ذَٰلِكَ مُحْسِنِينَ ١٦
ākhidhīna mā ātāhum rabbuhum innahum kānū qabla dhālika muḥ'sinīna
Accepting what their Lord has given them. Indeed, they were before that doers of good.
Verse 16 of Surah Adh-Dhariyat (51:16), a Meccan surah, is in juz 26, on page 521 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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Taking the generous reward their Lord has given them. Before this generous reward, they used to do good in the world.
receiving what their Lord will give them, for they were indeed doers of good beforehand.
Taking joy in the things which their Lord has given them. Verily, they were before this Muhsinûn (good-doers. See V.2:112).
Taking that which their Lord giveth them; for lo! aforetime they were doers of good;
Taking joy in the things which their Lord gives them, because, before then, they lived a good life.
Taking what their Lord gives them; surely they were before that, the doers of good.
Taking whatever their Lord has brought them; surely, they were fair-doers before that.
كُلُوا۟ وَٱشْرَبُوا۟ هَنِيٓـًٔۢا بِمَآ أَسْلَفْتُمْ فِى ٱلْأَيَّامِ ٱلْخَالِيَةِ
[They will be told], "Eat and drink in satisfaction for what you put forth in the days past."
They share a sequence of words with this verse: useful for telling them apart when memorising.
إِنَّهُمْ كَانُوا۟ قَبْلَ ذَٰلِكَ مُتْرَفِينَ
Indeed they were, before that, indulging in affluence,
