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Surah Al-Anbya, Verse 21

سورة الأنبياء، الآية ٢١

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

Text of verse 21:21

أَمِ ٱتَّخَذُوٓا۟ ءَالِهَةً مِّنَ ٱلْأَرْضِ هُمْ يُنشِرُونَ ۝٢١

Transliteration

ami ittakhadhū ālihatan mina l-arḍi hum yunshirūna

Translation

Or have they [i.e., men] taken for themselves gods from the earth who resurrect [the dead]?

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

Al-Mukhtasar

But the idolaters took gods besides Allah which cannot revive the dead, so how do they worship something unable to do this?

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Other translations of verse 21

Or have they taken gods from the earth who [cannot even] resurrect the dead?

Or have they taken (for worship) âlihah (gods) from the earth who raise the dead?

Or have they chosen gods from the earth who raise the dead?

Or have they taken (for worship) gods from the earth who can raise (the dead)?

Or have they taken gods from the earth who raise (the dead).

Or even have they taken to themselves gods from the earth who make (the dead) rise up again?

Verse 21 word by word

أَمِ ami Or
ٱتَّخَذُوٓا۟ ittakhadhū (have) they taken أ خ ذ
ءَالِهَةً ālihatan gods أ ل ه
مِّنَ mina from
ٱلْأَرْضِ l-arḍi the earth أ ر ض
هُمْ hum they
يُنشِرُونَ yunshirūna raise (the dead) ن ش ر

Verses related to verse 21

Cited by Ibn Kathir in his explanation of this verse

Al-Hijr 15:92–93
فَوَرَبِّكَ لَنَسْـَٔلَنَّهُمْ أَجْمَعِينَ …

So by your Lord, We will surely question them all …

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