Text of verse 87:16
بَلْ تُؤْثِرُونَ ٱلْحَيَوٰةَ ٱلدُّنْيَا ١٦
Transliteration
bal tu'thirūna l-ḥayata l-dun'yā
Translation
But you prefer the worldly life,
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Mahmoud Khalil Al-Hussary
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Surah Al-A’la, Verse 16
سورة الأعلى، الآية ١٦
Verse 16 of Surah Al-A’la (87:16), a Meccan surah, is in juz 30, on page 592 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 16
Al-Mukhtasar
But, you give preference to the worldly life and prefer it over the afterlife despite the huge disparity between them.
Other translations of verse 16
But you prefer the life of this world,
Nay, you prefer the life of this world,
But ye prefer the life of the world
Day (behold), ye prefer the life of this world;
Nay! you prefer the life of this world,
No indeed, (but) you prefer the present life, (Literally: the lowly life, i.e., the life of this world).
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أَمْ لَمْ يُنَبَّأْ بِمَا فِى صُحُفِ مُوسَىٰ …
Or has he not been informed of what was in the scriptures of Moses …