Skip to content

English

Surah Al-Anbya, Verse 12

سورة الأنبياء، الآية ١٢

21:12 Juz 17 Hizb 33 Page 323 of the mushaf Meccan surah

Text of verse 21:12

فَلَمَّآ أَحَسُّوا۟ بَأْسَنَآ إِذَا هُم مِّنْهَا يَرْكُضُونَ ۝١٢

Transliteration

falammā aḥassū basanā idhā hum min'hā yarkuḍūna

Translation

And when they [i.e., its inhabitants] perceived Our punishment, at once they fled from it.

Translation in another language

Choose a translation

Mahmoud Khalil Al-Hussary Read in the surah

Verse 12 of Surah Al-Anbya (21:12), a Meccan surah, is in juz 17, on page 323 of the mushaf. Read it in Arabic with its transliteration, translations and tafsir, and listen to it recited by 74 reciters.

Listen to verse 12 of Surah Al-Anbya

80 recitations by 74 reciters: pick one and it plays in the player.

All voices (80)

Tafsir of verse 12

Al-Mukhtasar

Then when those who were destroyed saw My destructive punishment, they began to run from their towns to flee destruction.

Tafsir of the whole Surah Al-Anbya

Other translations of verse 12

When they sensed Our punishment, they started running away from it.

Then, when they perceived (saw) Our Torment (coming), behold, they (tried to) flee from it.

And, when they felt Our might, behold them fleeing from it!

Yet, when they felt Our Punishment (coming), behold, they (tried to) flee from it.

So when they felt Our punishment, lo! they began to fly

Then, when they perceived Our violence, only then did they (run) scampering out of it.

Verse 12 word by word

فَلَمَّآ falammā Then when
أَحَسُّوا۟ aḥassū they perceived ح س س
بَأْسَنَآ basanā Our torment ب أ س
إِذَا idhā behold
هُم hum they
مِّنْهَا min'hā from it
يَرْكُضُونَ yarkuḍūna were fleeing ر ك ض

Go further