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Surah Al-Isra, Verse 109

سورة الإسراء، الآية ١٠٩

17:109 Juz 15 Hizb 30 Page 293 of the mushaf Meccan surah Verse of prostration

Text of verse 17:109

وَيَخِرُّونَ لِلْأَذْقَانِ يَبْكُونَ وَيَزِيدُهُمْ خُشُوعًا ۝١٠٩

Transliteration

wayakhirrūna lil'adhqāni yabkūna wayazīduhum khushūʿan

Translation

And they fall upon their faces weeping, and it [i.e., the Qur’ān] increases them in humble submission.

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Verse 109 of Surah Al-Isra (17:109), a Meccan surah, is in juz 15, on page 293 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 109

Al-Mukhtasar

And they fall on their faces, prostrating to Allah and crying out of His fear. And listening to the Qur’ān and contemplating its meanings increases them in submission to Allah and fearing Him.

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Other translations of verse 109

They fall down on their faces weeping, and it increases their humility.”

And they fall down on their faces weeping and it increases their humility.

They fall down on their faces, weeping, and it increaseth humility in them.

They fall down on their faces in tears, and it increases their (earnest) humility.

And they fall down on their faces weeping, and it adds to their humility.

And they collapse upon their faces weeping, and it increases them in submissiveness. A prostration is to be performed here.

Verse 109 word by word

  1. وَيَخِرُّونَ wayakhirrūna And they fall خ ر ر
  2. لِلْأَذْقَانِ lil'adhqāni on their faces ذ ق ن
  3. يَبْكُونَ yabkūna weeping ب ك ي
  4. وَيَزِيدُهُمْ wayazīduhum and it increases them ز ي د
  5. خُشُوعًا khushūʿan (in) humility خ ش ع

Verses related to verse 109

Cited by Ibn Kathir in his explanation of this verse

  • Muhammad 47:17

    وَٱلَّذِينَ ٱهْتَدَوْا۟ زَادَهُمْ هُدًى وَءَاتَىٰهُمْ تَقْوَىٰهُمْ

    And those who are guided - He increases them in guidance and gives them their righteousness.

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