سورة العنكبوت، الآية ٤
أَمْ حَسِبَ ٱلَّذِينَ يَعْمَلُونَ ٱلسَّيِّـَٔاتِ أَن يَسْبِقُونَا سَآءَ مَا يَحْكُمُونَ ٤
am ḥasiba alladhīna yaʿmalūna l-sayiāti an yasbiqūnā sāa mā yaḥkumūna
Or do those who do evil deeds think they can outrun [i.e., escape] Us? Evil is what they judge.
Verse 4 of Surah Al-’Ankabut (29:4), a Meccan surah, is in juz 20, on page 396 of the mushaf. Read it in Arabic with its transliteration, translations and tafsir, and listen to it recited by 72 reciters.
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Or did those who commit sins such as idolatry and so forth think they will escape us and be saved from My punishment? Bad is the judgment they make, for they will not be able to make Allah powerless nor will they be saved from His punishment if they die on their disbelief.
Do the evildoers think that they can escape Us? How evil is their judgment!
Or think those who do evil deeds that they can outstrip Us (i.e. escape Our punishment)? Evil is that which they judge!
Or do those who do ill-deeds imagine that they can outstrip Us? Evil (for them) is that which they decide.
Do those who practise evil think that they will get the better of Us? Evil is their judgment!
Or do they who work evil think that they will escape Us? Evil is it that they judge!
Or even do they reckon- the ones who do odious deeds- that they will outstrip Us? Odious is (the way) they judge!
