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Surah Al-Ghashiyah, Verse 6

سورة الغاشية، الآية ٦

88:6 Juz 30 Hizb 60 Page 592 of the mushaf Meccan surah

Text of verse 88:6

لَّيْسَ لَهُمْ طَعَامٌ إِلَّا مِن ضَرِيعٍ ۝٦

Transliteration

laysa lahum ṭaʿāmun illā min ḍarīʿin

Translation

For them there will be no food except from a poisonous, thorny plant

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Verse 6 of Surah Al-Ghashiyah (88:6), 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 6

Al-Mukhtasar

They will not have any food to nourish them besides the worst and most rotten type of food from a plant that is called shibriq, which becomes poisonous when it becomes dry.

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Other translations of verse 6

and they will have no food except bitter thorny plants,

No food will there be for them but a poisonous thorny plant,

No food for them save bitter thorn-fruit

No food will there be for them but a bitter Dhari'

They shall have no food but of thorns,

No food will be brought for them except from daric, (Or: cactus thorn).

Verse 6 word by word

  1. لَّيْسَ laysa Not is ل ي س
  2. لَهُمْ lahum for them
  3. طَعَامٌ ṭaʿāmun food ط ع م
  4. إِلَّا illā except
  5. مِن min from
  6. ضَرِيعٍ ḍarīʿin a bitter thorny plant ض ر ع

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  • Al-Haqqah 69:36

    وَلَا طَعَامٌ إِلَّا مِنْ غِسْلِينٍ

    Nor any food except from the discharge of wounds;

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