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Surah Al-Haqqah, Verse 27

سورة الحاقة، الآية ٢٧

69:27 Juz 29 Hizb 57 Page 567 of the mushaf Meccan surah

Text of verse 69:27

يَٰلَيْتَهَا كَانَتِ ٱلْقَاضِيَةَ ۝٢٧

Transliteration

yālaytahā kānati l-qāḍiyata

Translation

I wish it [i.e., my death] had been the decisive one.¹⁷⁴³

Notes

[1743] i.e., ending life rather than being the gateway to eternal life.

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Verse 27 of Surah Al-Haqqah (69:27), a Meccan surah, is in juz 29, on page 567 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 27

Al-Mukhtasar

“If only the death I died, was the final one after which I was never resurrected.”

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Other translations of verse 27

Would that it [i.e., death] had been the end of me⁶!

Notes

[6] Rather than a gateway to eternal life.

"Would that it had been my end (death)!

Oh, would that it had been death!

"Ah! Would that (Death) had made an end of me!

O would that it had made an end (of me):

Oh, would that it had been the decreed end!

Verse 27 word by word

يَٰلَيْتَهَا yālaytahā O! I wish it
كَانَتِ kānati had been ك و ن
ٱلْقَاضِيَةَ l-qāḍiyata the end ق ض ي

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