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Surah Adh-Dhariyat, Verse 42

سورة الذاريات، الآية ٤٢

51:42 Juz 27 Hizb 53 Page 522 of the mushaf Meccan surah

Text of verse 51:42

مَا تَذَرُ مِن شَىْءٍ أَتَتْ عَلَيْهِ إِلَّا جَعَلَتْهُ كَٱلرَّمِيمِ ۝٤٢

Transliteration

mā tadharu min shayin atat ʿalayhi illā jaʿalathu kal-ramīmi

Translation

It left nothing of what it came upon but that it made it like disintegrated ruins.

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Verse 42 of Surah Adh-Dhariyat (51:42), 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 42

Al-Mukhtasar

It did not leave any soul, wealth or anything else it came upon, except that it destroyed it and left it like scattered ruins.

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Other translations of verse 42

It spared nothing it came upon except that it reduced it to ruin and decay.

It spared nothing that it reached, but blew it into broken spreads of rotten ruins.

It spared naught that it reached, but made it (all) as dust.

It left nothing whatever that it came up against, but reduced it to ruin and rottenness.

It did not leave aught on which it blew, but it made it like ashes.

In no way did it come upon anything except that it left it out (and) made it as a rotten (stuff).

Verse 42 word by word

  1. مَا mā Not
  2. تَذَرُ tadharu it left و ذ ر
  3. مِن min any
  4. شَىْءٍ shayin thing ش ي أ
  5. أَتَتْ atat it came أ ت ي
  6. عَلَيْهِ ʿalayhi upon it
  7. إِلَّا illā but
  8. جَعَلَتْهُ jaʿalathu it made it ج ع ل
  9. كَٱلرَّمِيمِ kal-ramīmi like disintegrated ruins ر م م

Hadiths that cite this verse

Differing grades Jami' at-Tirmidhi 3273

from a man of Rabi'ah who said: "I arrived in Al-Madinah, entered upon the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) and mentioned the emissary of 'Ad to him. I said: 'I seek refuge in Allah from being like the emissary of 'Ad.' So the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: 'And what of the emissary of 'Ad?'" He said: "I said…

"‏ وَمَا وَافِدُ عَادٍ ‏"‏ ‏.‏ قَالَ فَقُلْتُ عَلَى الْخَبِيرِ سَقَطْتَ إِنَّ عَادًا لَمَّا أُقْحِطَتْ بَعَثَتْ قَيْلاً فَنَزَلَ عَلَى بَكْرِ بْنِ مُعَاوِيَةَ فَسَقَاهُ الْخَمْرَ وَغَنَّتْهُ الْجَرَادَتَانِ ثُمَّ خَرَجَ…

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