سورة الحجر، الآية ٩٩
وَٱعْبُدْ رَبَّكَ حَتَّىٰ يَأْتِيَكَ ٱلْيَقِينُ ٩٩
wa-uʿ'bud rabbaka ḥattā yatiyaka l-yaqīnu
And worship your Lord until there comes to you the certainty [i.e., death].
Verse 99 of Surah Al-Hijr (15:99), a Meccan surah, is in juz 14, on page 267 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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Go on worshipping your Lord and continue doing so as long as you live until death comes to you in that state.
and worship your Lord until the certainty [of death] comes to you.
And worship your Lord until there comes unto you the certainty (i.e. death).8
[8] (V.15:99) Narrated Anas رضي الله عنه: Allâh’s Messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم said, "None of you should long for death because of a calamity that had befallen him; and if he cannot, but long for death, then he should say, ‘O Allâh! Let me live as long as life is better for me, and take my life if death is better for me’" (Sahih Al-Bukhari, Vol.8, Hadith No.362).
And serve thy Lord till the Inevitable cometh unto thee.
And serve thy Lord until there come unto thee the Hour that is Certain.
And serve your Lord until there comes to you that which is certain.
And worship your Lord until the Certitude comes up to you.
One hadith cites this verse; its text is in Arabic.
قَالُوا۟ لَمْ نَكُ مِنَ ٱلْمُصَلِّينَ …
They will say, "We were not of those who prayed, …
