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Surah Al-Ahzab, Verse 66

سورة الأحزاب، الآية ٦٦

33:66 Juz 22 Hizb 43 Page 427 of the mushaf Medinan surah

Text of verse 33:66

يَوْمَ تُقَلَّبُ وُجُوهُهُمْ فِى ٱلنَّارِ يَقُولُونَ يَٰلَيْتَنَآ أَطَعْنَا ٱللَّهَ وَأَطَعْنَا ٱلرَّسُولَا۠ ۝٦٦

Transliteration

yawma tuqallabu wujūhuhum fī l-nāri yaqūlūna yālaytanā aṭaʿnā l-laha wa-aṭaʿnā l-rasūlā

Translation

The Day their faces will be turned about in the Fire, they will say, "How we wish we had obeyed Allāh and obeyed the Messenger."

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Verse 66 of Surah Al-Ahzab (33:66), a Medinan surah, is in juz 22, on page 427 of the mushaf. Read it in Arabic with its transliteration, translations and tafsir, and listen to it recited by 73 reciters.

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Tafsir of verse 66

Al-Mukhtasar

On the Day of Judgement their faces will be turned in the hellfire, and they will say out of severe regret and remorse: “If only we obeyed Allah by doing what He commanded us to and refrained from the things He prohibited us from, and obeyed the Messenger in what he brought from his Lord!”

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Other translations of verse 66

On the Day when their faces are turned over in the Fire, they will say, “Would that we had obeyed Allah and obeyed the Messenger!”

On the Day when their faces will be turned over in the Fire, they will say: "Oh, would that we had obeyed Allâh and obeyed the Messenger (Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم)."

On the day when their faces are turned over in the Fire, they say: Oh, would that we had obeyed Allah and had obeyed His messenger!

The Day that their faces will be turned upside down in the Fire, they will say: "Woe to us! Would that we had obeyed Allah and obeyed the Messenger!"

On the day when their faces shall be turned back into the fire, they shall say: O would that we had obeyed Allah and obeyed the Messenger!

On the Day when their faces are turned about in the Fire, they will say, "O, would that we had obeyed Allah and had obeyed the Messenger!"

Verse 66 word by word

  1. يَوْمَ yawma (The) Day ي و م
  2. تُقَلَّبُ tuqallabu will be turned about ق ل ب
  3. وُجُوهُهُمْ wujūhuhum their faces و ج ه
  4. فِى fī in
  5. ٱلنَّارِ l-nāri the Fire ن و ر
  6. يَقُولُونَ yaqūlūna they will say ق و ل
  7. يَٰلَيْتَنَآ yālaytanā O we wish
  8. أَطَعْنَا aṭaʿnā we (had) obeyed ط و ع
  9. ٱللَّهَ l-laha Allah
  10. وَأَطَعْنَا wa-aṭaʿnā and obeyed ط و ع
  11. ٱلرَّسُولَا۠ l-rasūlā the Messenger ر س ل

Verses related to verse 66

Cited by Ibn Kathir in his explanation of this verse

  • Al-Furqan 25:27–29

    وَيَوْمَ يَعَضُّ ٱلظَّالِمُ عَلَىٰ يَدَيْهِ يَقُولُ يَٰلَيْتَنِى ٱتَّخَذْتُ مَعَ ٱلرَّسُولِ سَبِيلًا …

    And the Day the wrongdoer will bite on his hands [in regret] he will say, "Oh, I wish I had taken with the Messenger a way. …

  • Al-Hijr 15:2

    رُّبَمَا يَوَدُّ ٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا۟ لَوْ كَانُوا۟ مُسْلِمِينَ

    Perhaps those who disbelieve will wish that they had been Muslims.

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