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Surah Al-Ghashiyah, Verse 18

سورة الغاشية، الآية ١٨

88:18 Juz 30 Hizb 60 Page 592 of the mushaf Meccan surah

Text of verse 88:18

وَإِلَى ٱلسَّمَآءِ كَيْفَ رُفِعَتْ ۝١٨

Transliteration

wa-ilā l-samāi kayfa rufiʿat

Translation

And at the sky - how it is raised?

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Verse 18 of Surah Al-Ghashiyah (88:18), a Meccan surah, is in juz 30, on page 592 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 18

Al-Mukhtasar

And at the sky, how He raised it so that it became a protected ceiling above them, that does not fall on them?!

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Other translations of verse 18

and the sky, how it is raised high;

And at the heaven, how it is raised?

And the heaven, how it is raised?

And at the Sky, how it is raised high?-

And the heaven, how it is reared aloft,

And at the heaven, how it has been raised up,

Verse 18 word by word

  1. وَإِلَى wa-ilā And towards
  2. ٱلسَّمَآءِ l-samāi the sky س م و
  3. كَيْفَ kayfa how ك ي ف
  4. رُفِعَتْ rufiʿat it is raised ر ف ع

Verses related to verse 18

Cited by Ibn Kathir in his explanation of this verse

  • Qaf 50:6

    أَفَلَمْ يَنظُرُوٓا۟ إِلَى ٱلسَّمَآءِ فَوْقَهُمْ كَيْفَ بَنَيْنَٰهَا وَزَيَّنَّٰهَا وَمَا لَهَا مِن فُرُوجٍ

    Have they not looked at the heaven above them - how We structured it and adorned it and [how] it has no rifts?

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