Text of verse 51:45
فَمَا ٱسْتَطَٰعُوا۟ مِن قِيَامٍ وَمَا كَانُوا۟ مُنتَصِرِينَ ٤٥
Transliteration
famā is'taṭāʿū min qiyāmin wamā kānū muntaṣirīna
Translation
And they were unable to arise, nor could they defend themselves.
سورة الذاريات، الآية ٤٥
فَمَا ٱسْتَطَٰعُوا۟ مِن قِيَامٍ وَمَا كَانُوا۟ مُنتَصِرِينَ ٤٥
famā is'taṭāʿū min qiyāmin wamā kānū muntaṣirīna
And they were unable to arise, nor could they defend themselves.
Verse 45 of Surah Adh-Dhariyat (51:45), 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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So they were unable to repel the punishment that befell them nor did they have any power to defend themselves with.
They could not withstand it, nor could they ward it off.
Then they were unable to rise up, nor could they help themselves.
And they were unable to rise up, nor could they help themselves.
Then they could not even stand (on their feet), nor could they help themselves.
So they were not able to rise up, nor could they defend themselves-
So in no way were they able to be upright, and in no way were they vindicators.