سورة الحجر، الآية ٤٠
إِلَّا عِبَادَكَ مِنْهُمُ ٱلْمُخْلَصِينَ ٤٠
illā ʿibādaka min'humu l-mukh'laṣīna
Except, among them, Your chosen servants."
Verse 40 of Surah Al-Hijr (15:40), a Meccan surah, is in juz 14, on page 264 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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Except for those servants You select to be worshipful to You.
except for Your chosen slaves among them.”
"Except Your chosen, (guided) slaves among them."
Save such of them as are Thy perfectly devoted slaves.
"Except Thy servants among them, sincere and purified (by Thy Grace)."
Except Thy servants from among them, the devoted ones.
Excepting Your bondmen among them, who are most faithful."
قَالَ أَرَءَيْتَكَ هَٰذَا ٱلَّذِى كَرَّمْتَ عَلَىَّ لَئِنْ أَخَّرْتَنِ إِلَىٰ يَوْمِ ٱلْقِيَٰمَةِ لَأَحْتَنِكَنَّ ذُرِّيَّتَهُۥٓ إِلَّا قَلِيلًا
[Iblees] said, "Do You see this one whom You have honored above me? If You delay me [i.e., my death] until the Day of Resurrection, I will surely destroy his descendants, except for a few."
They share a sequence of words with this verse: useful for telling them apart when memorising.
إِلَّا عِبَادَكَ مِنْهُمُ ٱلْمُخْلَصِينَ
Except, among them, Your chosen servants."
