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Surah Al-Hijr, Verse 18

سورة الحجر، الآية ١٨

15:18 Juz 14 Hizb 27 Page 263 of the mushaf Meccan surah

Text of verse 15:18

إِلَّا مَنِ ٱسْتَرَقَ ٱلسَّمْعَ فَأَتْبَعَهُۥ شِهَابٌ مُّبِينٌ ۝١٨

Transliteration

illā mani is'taraqa l-samʿa fa-atbaʿahu shihābun mubīnun

Translation

Except one who steals a hearing and is pursued by a clear burning flame.

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Verse 18 of Surah Al-Hijr (15:18), a Meccan surah, is in juz 14, on page 263 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

Except for those who try to secretly listen to the high realm, they will be struck with a flaming meteor and they will be burned.

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Other translations of verse 18

except the one who manages to eavesdrop, he will then be pursued by a visible burning flame.

Except him (devil) who steals the hearing then he is pursued by a clear flaming fire.

Save him who stealeth the hearing, and them doth a clear flame pursue.

But any that gains a hearing by stealth, is pursued by a flaming fire, bright (to see).

But he who steals a hearing, so there follows him a visible flame.

Excepting him who (gains) hearing by stealth, (and) so an evidently flaming (meteor) follows him up.

Verse 18 word by word

إِلَّا illā Except
مَنِ mani (one) who
ٱسْتَرَقَ is'taraqa steals س ر ق
ٱلسَّمْعَ l-samʿa the hearing س م ع
فَأَتْبَعَهُۥ fa-atbaʿahu then follows him ت ب ع
شِهَابٌ shihābun a burning flame ش ه ب
مُّبِينٌ mubīnun clear ب ي ن

Hadiths that cite this verse

Authentic Sahih al-Bukhari 4701

The Prophet (ﷺ) said, "When Allah has ordained some affair in the Heaven, the angels beat with their wings in obedience to His statement, which sounds like a chain dragged over a rock." (`Ali and other sub-narrators said, "The sound reaches them.") "Until when fear is banished from their (angels)…

إِذَا قَضَى اللَّهُ الأَمْرَ فِي السَّمَاءِ ضَرَبَتِ الْمَلاَئِكَةُ بِأَجْنِحَتِهَا خُضْعَانًا لِقَوْلِهِ كَالسِّلْسِلَةِ عَلَى صَفْوَانٍ ـ

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