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Surah Al-Fajr, Verse 23

سورة الفجر، الآية ٢٣

89:23 Juz 30 Hizb 60 Page 593 of the mushaf Meccan surah

Text of verse 89:23

وَجِا۟ىٓءَ يَوْمَئِذٍۭ بِجَهَنَّمَ يَوْمَئِذٍ يَتَذَكَّرُ ٱلْإِنسَٰنُ وَأَنَّىٰ لَهُ ٱلذِّكْرَىٰ ۝٢٣

Transliteration

wajīa yawma-idhin bijahannama yawma-idhin yatadhakkaru l-insānu wa-annā lahu l-dhik'rā

Translation

And brought [within view], that Day, is Hell - that Day, man will remember, but how [i.e., what good] to him will be the remembrance?

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Verse 23 of Surah Al-Fajr (89:23), a Meccan surah, is in juz 30, on page 593 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 23

Al-Mukhtasar

And on that day, hell will be brought with it having seventy thousand reins, each rein being pulled by seventy thousand angels. On that day, the human will remember his shortcomings in the rights of Allah, but that remembrance on that day will not benefit him in the slightest, because it will be a Day of Requital, not action!

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Other translations of verse 23

and Hell is brought near on that Day – this is when man will understand, but what is the use of that understanding?

And Hell will be brought near that Day. On that Day will man remember, but how will that remembrance (then) avail him?

And hell is brought near that day; on that day man will remember, but how will the remembrance (then avail him)?

And Hell, that Day, is brought (face to face),- on that Day will man remember, but how will that remembrance profit him?

And hell is made to appear on that day. On that day shall man be mindful, and what shall being mindful (then) avail him?

And Hell is made to come (face to face) upon that Day, man will remember, upon that Day, and however will the Reminding (avail) him?

Verse 23 word by word

  1. وَجِا۟ىٓءَ wajīa And is brought ج ي أ
  2. يَوْمَئِذٍۭ yawma-idhin that Day ي و م
  3. بِجَهَنَّمَ bijahannama Hell
  4. يَوْمَئِذٍ yawma-idhin That Day ي و م
  5. يَتَذَكَّرُ yatadhakkaru will remember ذ ك ر
  6. ٱلْإِنسَٰنُ l-insānu man أ ن س
  7. وَأَنَّىٰ wa-annā but how
  8. لَهُ lahu (will be) for him
  9. ٱلذِّكْرَىٰ l-dhik'rā the remembrance ذ ك ر

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