Text of verse 84:16
فَلَآ أُقْسِمُ بِٱلشَّفَقِ ١٦
Transliteration
falā uq'simu bil-shafaqi
Translation
So I swear by the twilight glow
Translation in another language
Mahmoud Khalil Al-Hussary
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Surah Al-Inshiqaq, Verse 16
سورة الإنشقاق، الآية ١٦
Verse 16 of Surah Al-Inshiqaq (84:16), a Meccan surah, is in juz 30, on page 589 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 16
Al-Mukhtasar
Allah took an oath by the redness that is in the horizon after the sun sets.
Other translations of verse 16
Indeed, I swear by the twilight,
So I swear by the afterglow of sunset;
Oh, I swear by the afterglow of sunset,
So I do call to witness the ruddy glow of Sunset;
But nay! I swear by the sunset redness,
Yet no! I swear by the twilight,
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Cited by Ibn Kathir in his explanation of this verse
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Qaf 50:22
لَّقَدْ كُنتَ فِى غَفْلَةٍ مِّنْ هَٰذَا فَكَشَفْنَا عَنكَ غِطَآءَكَ فَبَصَرُكَ ٱلْيَوْمَ حَدِيدٌ
[It will be said], "You were certainly in unmindfulness of this, and We have removed from you your cover, so your sight, this Day, is sharp."
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Hud 11:108
وَأَمَّا ٱلَّذِينَ سُعِدُوا۟ فَفِى ٱلْجَنَّةِ خَٰلِدِينَ فِيهَا مَا دَامَتِ ٱلسَّمَٰوَٰتُ وَٱلْأَرْضُ إِلَّا مَا شَآءَ رَبُّكَ عَطَآءً غَيْرَ مَجْذُوذٍ
And as for those who were [destined to be] prosperous, they will be in Paradise, abiding therein as long as the heavens and the earth endure, except what your Lord should will - a bestowal uninterrupted.
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Yunus 10:10
دَعْوَىٰهُمْ فِيهَا سُبْحَٰنَكَ ٱللَّهُمَّ وَتَحِيَّتُهُمْ فِيهَا سَلَٰمٌ وَءَاخِرُ دَعْوَىٰهُمْ أَنِ ٱلْحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ رَبِّ ٱلْعَٰلَمِينَ
Their call therein will be, "Exalted are You, O Allāh," and their greeting therein will be, "Peace." And the last of their call will be, "Praise to Allāh, Lord of the worlds!"