سورة الذاريات، الآية ٢٩
فَأَقْبَلَتِ ٱمْرَأَتُهُۥ فِى صَرَّةٍ فَصَكَّتْ وَجْهَهَا وَقَالَتْ عَجُوزٌ عَقِيمٌ ٢٩
fa-aqbalati im'ra-atuhu fī ṣarratin faṣakkat wajhahā waqālat ʿajūzun ʿaqīmun
And his wife approached with a cry [of alarm] and struck her face and said, "[I am] a barren old woman!"
Verse 29 of Surah Adh-Dhariyat (51:29), 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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When his wife heard the glad tiding, she came screaming out of happiness and slapped her face, and said in surprise: “Will an old woman give birth when she is actually barren?”
His wife cried out loud, and struck her face [in astonishment] and said, “[I am] a barren old woman!”
Then his wife came forward with a loud voice: she smote her face, and said: "A barren old woman!"3
[3] (V.51:29) "How can I bear a child." At that time she (Sarah) was approximately 99 years old. (Tafsîr Al-Qurtubi ).
Then his wife came forward, making moan, and smote her face, and cried: A barren old woman!
But his wife came forward (laughing) aloud: she smote her forehead and said: "A barren old woman!"
Then his wife came up in great grief, and she struck her face and said: An old barren woman!
So came forward his wife, clamoring; (literally: with a clamor) then she beat her face, and said, "An old sterile woman!"
