Text of verse 96:16
نَاصِيَةٍ كَٰذِبَةٍ خَاطِئَةٍ ١٦
Transliteration
nāṣiyatin kādhibatin khāṭi-atin
Translation
A lying, sinning forelock.
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Mahmoud Khalil Al-Hussary
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Surah Al-’Alaq, Verse 16
سورة العلق، الآية ١٦
Verse 16 of Surah Al-’Alaq (96:16), a Meccan surah, is in juz 30, on page 597 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
The owner of that forehead is a liar in speech and erroneous in action.
Other translations of verse 16
a lying, sinful forelock6.
Notes
[6] It alludes to the frontal lobe of the brain, where reasoning is processed.
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Sahih Muslim 2797
If he had come near me, the angels would have torn him to pieces
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