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Surah Al-Anbya, Verse 15

سورة الأنبياء، الآية ١٥

21:15 Juz 17 Hizb 33 Page 323 of the mushaf Meccan surah

Text of verse 21:15

فَمَا زَالَت تِّلْكَ دَعْوَىٰهُمْ حَتَّىٰ جَعَلْنَٰهُمْ حَصِيدًا خَٰمِدِينَ ۝١٥

Transliteration

famā zālat til'ka daʿwāhum ḥattā jaʿalnāhum ḥaṣīdan khāmidīna

Translation

And that declaration of theirs did not cease until We made them [as] a harvest [mowed down], extinguished [like a fire].

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Verse 15 of Surah Al-Anbya (21:15), 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.

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Tafsir of verse 15

Al-Mukhtasar

So they continued confessing to their sins and praying for their own destruction until I made them like harvested crops, dead without any movement.

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Other translations of verse 15

They kept crying this out loud until We mowed them down, lifeless⁸.

Notes

[8] i.e., extinguished like ashes.

And that cry of theirs ceased not, till We made them as a field that is reaped, extinct (dead).

And this their crying ceased not till We made them as reaped corn, extinct.

And that cry of theirs ceased not, till We made them as a field that is mown, as ashes silent and quenched.

And this ceased not to be their cry till We made them cut off, extinct.

So that their (unjust) plea did not cease until We made them a harvest mown down.

Verse 15 word by word

فَمَا famā Then not
زَالَت zālat ceased ز ي ل
تِّلْكَ til'ka [this]
دَعْوَىٰهُمْ daʿwāhum their cry د ع و
حَتَّىٰ ḥattā until
جَعَلْنَٰهُمْ jaʿalnāhum We made them ج ع ل
حَصِيدًا ḥaṣīdan reaped ح ص د
خَٰمِدِينَ khāmidīna extinct خ م د

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