Skip to content

English

Surah Al-Isra, Verse 38

سورة الإسراء، الآية ٣٨

17:38 Juz 15 Hizb 29 Page 285 of the mushaf Meccan surah

Text of verse 17:38

كُلُّ ذَٰلِكَ كَانَ سَيِّئُهُۥ عِندَ رَبِّكَ مَكْرُوهًا ۝٣٨

Transliteration

kullu dhālika kāna sayyi-uhu ʿinda rabbika makrūhan

Translation

All that [i.e., the aforementioned] - its evil is ever, in the sight of your Lord, detested.

Translation in another language

Choose a translation

Mahmoud Khalil Al-Hussary Read in the surah

Verse 38 of Surah Al-Isra (17:38), a Meccan surah, is in juz 15, on page 285 of the mushaf. Read it in Arabic with its transliteration, translations and tafsir, and listen to it recited by 73 reciters.

Listen to verse 38 of Surah Al-Isra

79 recitations by 73 reciters: pick one and it plays in the player.

All voices (79)

Tafsir of verse 38

Al-Mukhtasar

The evil of all that has been mentioned above is prohibited by your Lord - O man! Allah is not pleased with those who perpetrate this and He in fact detests them.

Tafsir of the whole Surah Al-Isra

Other translations of verse 38

The evil of all these actions is hateful to your Lord.

All the bad aspects of these (the above mentioned things) are hateful to your Lord.

The evil of all that is hateful in the sight of thy Lord.

Of all such things the evil is hateful in the sight of thy Lord.

All this-- the evil of it-- is hateful in the sight of your Lord.

All of that, the odiousness of it is hateful in the Meeting of your Lord.

Verse 38 word by word

كُلُّ kullu All ك ل ل
ذَٰلِكَ dhālika that
كَانَ kāna is ك و ن
سَيِّئُهُۥ sayyi-uhu [its] evil س و أ
عِندَ ʿinda near ع ن د
رَبِّكَ rabbika your Lord ر ب ب
مَكْرُوهًا makrūhan hateful ك ر ه

Go further