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Surah Al-Hijr, Verse 72

سورة الحجر، الآية ٧٢

15:72 Juz 14 Hizb 27 Page 266 of the mushaf Meccan surah

Text of verse 15:72

لَعَمْرُكَ إِنَّهُمْ لَفِى سَكْرَتِهِمْ يَعْمَهُونَ ۝٧٢

Transliteration

laʿamruka innahum lafī sakratihim yaʿmahūna

Translation

By your life, [O Muḥammad], indeed they were, in their intoxication, wandering blindly.

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Verse 72 of Surah Al-Hijr (15:72), a Meccan surah, is in juz 14, on page 266 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 72

Al-Mukhtasar

By your life - O Messenger - the people of Lot wander blindly in pursuit of their lusts.

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Other translations of verse 72

By your life [O prophet], they were wandering blindly in their intoxication [of lust]34.

Notes

[34] Admonition is of no use, no matter how reasonable it is, when someone is drunk in their lust.

Verily, by your life (O Muhammad صلى الله عليه و سلم), in their wild intoxication, they were wandering blindly.

By thy life (O Muhammad) they moved blindly in the frenzy of approaching death.

Verily, by thy life (O Prophet), in their wild intoxication, they wander in distraction, to and fro.

By your life! they were blindly wandering on in their intoxication.

By your life, surely they were indeed blundering in their stupor.

Verse 72 word by word

  1. لَعَمْرُكَ laʿamruka By your life ع م ر
  2. إِنَّهُمْ innahum indeed, they
  3. لَفِى lafī were in
  4. سَكْرَتِهِمْ sakratihim their intoxication س ك ر
  5. يَعْمَهُونَ yaʿmahūna wandering blindly ع م ه

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