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Surah Al-A’raf, Verse 91

سورة الأعراف، الآية ٩١

7:91 Juz 9 Hizb 17 Page 162 of the mushaf Meccan surah

Text of verse 7:91

فَأَخَذَتْهُمُ ٱلرَّجْفَةُ فَأَصْبَحُوا۟ فِى دَارِهِمْ جَٰثِمِينَ ۝٩١

Transliteration

fa-akhadhathumu l-rajfatu fa-aṣbaḥū fī dārihim jāthimīna

Translation

So the earthquake seized them, and they became within their home [corpses] fallen prone.

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Verse 91 of Surah Al-A’raf (7:91), a Meccan surah, is in juz 9, on page 162 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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Tafsir of verse 91

Al-Mukhtasar

So a great earthquake took them; and in the morning they were dead in their homes, fallen on their knees and faces.

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Other translations of verse 91

Then they were seized by the earthquake and they fell lifeless in their homes.

So the earthquake seized them and they lay (dead), prostrate in their homes.

So the earthquake seized them and morning found them prostrate in their dwelling-place.

But the earthquake took them unawares, and they lay prostrate in their homes before the morning!

Then the earthquake overtook them, so they became motionless bodies in their abode.

Then the Commotion took them (away); so in the morning they became cowering (bodies) in their residence.

Verse 91 word by word

  1. فَأَخَذَتْهُمُ fa-akhadhathumu Then seized them أ خ ذ
  2. ٱلرَّجْفَةُ l-rajfatu the earthquake ر ج ف
  3. فَأَصْبَحُوا۟ fa-aṣbaḥū then they became ص ب ح
  4. فِى fī in
  5. دَارِهِمْ dārihim their home(s) د و ر
  6. جَٰثِمِينَ jāthimīna fallen prone ج ث م

Verses related to verse 91

Cited by Ibn Kathir in his explanation of this verse

  • Hud 11:94

    وَلَمَّا جَآءَ أَمْرُنَا نَجَّيْنَا شُعَيْبًا وَٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوا۟ مَعَهُۥ بِرَحْمَةٍ مِّنَّا وَأَخَذَتِ ٱلَّذِينَ ظَلَمُوا۟ ٱلصَّيْحَةُ فَأَصْبَحُوا۟ فِى دِيَٰرِهِمْ جَٰثِمِينَ

    And when Our command came, We saved Shuʿayb and those who believed with him, by mercy from Us. And the shriek seized those who had wronged, and they became within their homes [corpses] fallen prone

  • Hud 11:87

    قَالُوا۟ يَٰشُعَيْبُ أَصَلَوٰتُكَ تَأْمُرُكَ أَن نَّتْرُكَ مَا يَعْبُدُ ءَابَآؤُنَآ أَوْ أَن نَّفْعَلَ فِىٓ أَمْوَٰلِنَا مَا نَشَٰٓؤُا۟ إِنَّكَ لَأَنتَ ٱلْحَلِيمُ ٱلرَّشِيدُ

    They said, "O Shuʿayb, does your prayer [i.e., religion] command you that we should leave what our fathers worship or not do with our wealth what we please? Indeed, you are the forbearing, the discerning!"

  • Ash-Shu’ara 26:189

    فَكَذَّبُوهُ فَأَخَذَهُمْ عَذَابُ يَوْمِ ٱلظُّلَّةِ إِنَّهُۥ كَانَ عَذَابَ يَوْمٍ عَظِيمٍ

    And they denied him, so the punishment of the day of the black cloud seized them. Indeed, it was the punishment of a terrible day.

  • Ash-Shu’ara 26:187

    فَأَسْقِطْ عَلَيْنَا كِسَفًا مِّنَ ٱلسَّمَآءِ إِن كُنتَ مِنَ ٱلصَّٰدِقِينَ

    So cause to fall upon us fragments of the sky, if you should be of the truthful."

Verses with similar wording

They share a sequence of words with this verse: useful for telling them apart when memorising.

  • Al-A’raf 7:78

    فَأَخَذَتْهُمُ ٱلرَّجْفَةُ فَأَصْبَحُوا۟ فِى دَارِهِمْ جَٰثِمِينَ

    So the earthquake seized them, and they became within their home [corpses] fallen prone.

  • Al-’Ankabut 29:37

    فَكَذَّبُوهُ فَأَخَذَتْهُمُ ٱلرَّجْفَةُ فَأَصْبَحُوا۟ فِى دَارِهِمْ جَٰثِمِينَ

    But they denied him, so the earthquake seized them, and they became within their home [corpses] fallen prone.

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