Text of verse 90:4
لَقَدْ خَلَقْنَا ٱلْإِنسَٰنَ فِى كَبَدٍ ٤
Transliteration
laqad khalaqnā l-insāna fī kabadin
Translation
We have certainly created man into hardship.
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Surah Al-Balad, Verse 4
سورة البلد، الآية ٤
Verse 4 of Surah Al-Balad (90:4), a Meccan surah, is in juz 30, on page 594 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 4
Al-Mukhtasar
Verily, I have created the human in tiredness and difficulty, because of the severities he experiences in the world.
Other translations of verse 4
We have created man in hardship.
Verily, We have created man in toil.
We verily have created man in an atmosphere:
Verily We have created man into toil and struggle.
Certainly We have created man to be in distress.
Indeed We already created man in suffering.
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Al-Infitar 82:6–7
يَٰٓأَيُّهَا ٱلْإِنسَٰنُ مَا غَرَّكَ بِرَبِّكَ ٱلْكَرِيمِ …
O mankind, what has deceived you concerning your Lord, the Generous, …
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At-Tin 95:4
لَقَدْ خَلَقْنَا ٱلْإِنسَٰنَ فِىٓ أَحْسَنِ تَقْوِيمٍ
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