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Surah Al-Humazah, Verse 1

سورة الهمزة، الآية ١

104:1 Juz 30 Hizb 60 Page 601 of the mushaf Meccan surah

Text of verse 104:1

بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ

وَيْلٌ لِّكُلِّ هُمَزَةٍ لُّمَزَةٍ ۝١

Transliteration

waylun likulli humazatin lumazatin

Translation

Woe to every scorner and mocker

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Verse 1 of Surah Al-Humazah (104:1), a Meccan surah, is in juz 30, on page 601 of the mushaf. Read it in Arabic with its transliteration, translations and tafsir, and listen to it recited by 73 reciters.

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Tafsir of verse 1

Al-Mukhtasar

Evil consequences and a severe punishment awaits the one who frequently backbites the people and taunts them.

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Other translations of verse 1

Woe to every backbiter and slanderer,

Woe to every slanderer and backbiter.1

Notes

[1] (V.104:1) See the footnotes A, B, C, of (V.49:12).

Woe unto every slandering traducer,

Woe to every (kind of) scandal-monger and-backbiter,

Woe to every slanderer, defamer,

Woe to every persistent slanderer, persistent defamer,

Verse 1 word by word

  1. وَيْلٌ waylun Woe
  2. لِّكُلِّ likulli to every ك ل ل
  3. هُمَزَةٍ humazatin slanderer ه م ز
  4. لُّمَزَةٍ lumazatin backbiter ل م ز

Verses related to verse 1

Cited by Ibn Kathir in his explanation of this verse

  • Al-Qalam 68:11

    هَمَّازٍ مَّشَّآءٍۭ بِنَمِيمٍ

    [And] scorner, going about with malicious gossip -

  • Al-Ma’arij 70:18

    وَجَمَعَ فَأَوْعَىٰٓ

    And collected [wealth] and hoarded.

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