Text of verse 87:17
وَٱلْـَٔاخِرَةُ خَيْرٌ وَأَبْقَىٰٓ ١٧
Transliteration
wal-ākhiratu khayrun wa-abqā
Translation
While the Hereafter is better and more enduring.
Translation in another language
Mahmoud Khalil Al-Hussary
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Surah Al-A’la, Verse 17
سورة الأعلى، الآية ١٧
Verse 17 of Surah Al-A’la (87:17), 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 17
Al-Mukhtasar
The Hereafter is indeed, better and superior to the world and the enjoyments and pleasures it contains, and it is more lasting, because the bliss it contains does not ever end.
Other translations of verse 17
even though the Hereafter is better and more lasting.
Although the Hereafter is better and more lasting.
Although the Hereafter is better and more lasting.
But the Hereafter is better and more enduring.
While the hereafter is better and more lasting.
And the Hereafter is more charitable (i.e., better) and more enduring.