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Surah Adh-Dhariyat, Verse 40

سورة الذاريات، الآية ٤٠

51:40 Juz 27 Hizb 53 Page 522 of the mushaf Meccan surah

Text of verse 51:40

فَأَخَذْنَٰهُ وَجُنُودَهُۥ فَنَبَذْنَٰهُمْ فِى ٱلْيَمِّ وَهُوَ مُلِيمٌ ۝٤٠

Transliteration

fa-akhadhnāhu wajunūdahu fanabadhnāhum fī l-yami wahuwa mulīmun

Translation

So We took him and his soldiers and cast them into the sea, and he was blameworthy.

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Verse 40 of Surah Adh-Dhariyat (51:40), a Meccan surah, is in juz 27, on page 522 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 40

Al-Mukhtasar

So I seized him and all of his armies, then threw them in the sea, so they were drowned and destroyed. And Pharaoh will be held accountable for his blameworthy actions- denial of the message and his claim of divinity.

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Other translations of verse 40

So We seized him and his soldiers and cast them into the sea while he was blameworthy10.

Notes

[10] For his disbelief and arrogance.

So We took him and his hosts, and dumped them into the sea, for he was blameworthy.

So We seized him and his hosts and flung them in the sea, for he was reprobate.

So We took him and his forces, and threw them into the sea; and his was the blame.

So We seized him and his hosts and hurled them into the sea and he was blamable.

So We took him (away) and his hosts; then We flung them off in the main, (and) he was blameworthy.

Verse 40 word by word

  1. فَأَخَذْنَٰهُ fa-akhadhnāhu So We took him أ خ ذ
  2. وَجُنُودَهُۥ wajunūdahu and his hosts ج ن د
  3. فَنَبَذْنَٰهُمْ fanabadhnāhum and threw them ن ب ذ
  4. فِى fī into
  5. ٱلْيَمِّ l-yami the sea ي م م
  6. وَهُوَ wahuwa while he
  7. مُلِيمٌ mulīmun (was) blameworthy ل و م

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  • Al-Qasas 28:40

    فَأَخَذْنَٰهُ وَجُنُودَهُۥ فَنَبَذْنَٰهُمْ فِى ٱلْيَمِّ فَٱنظُرْ كَيْفَ كَانَ عَٰقِبَةُ ٱلظَّٰلِمِينَ

    So We took him and his soldiers and threw them into the sea. So see how was the end of the wrongdoers.

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