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Surah Al-Isra, Verse 68

سورة الإسراء، الآية ٦٨

17:68 Juz 15 Hizb 29 Page 289 of the mushaf Meccan surah

Text of verse 17:68

أَفَأَمِنتُمْ أَن يَخْسِفَ بِكُمْ جَانِبَ ٱلْبَرِّ أَوْ يُرْسِلَ عَلَيْكُمْ حَاصِبًا ثُمَّ لَا تَجِدُوا۟ لَكُمْ وَكِيلًا ۝٦٨

Transliteration

afa-amintum an yakhsifa bikum jāniba l-bari aw yur'sila ʿalaykum ḥāṣiban thumma lā tajidū lakum wakīlan

Translation

Then do you feel secure that [instead] He will not cause a part of the land to swallow you or send against you a storm of stones? Then you would not find for yourselves an advocate.

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Verse 68 of Surah Al-Isra (17:68), a Meccan surah, is in juz 15, on page 289 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 68

Al-Mukhtasar

So do you feel secure - O idolaters - when Allah has delivered you safely to land that He will not make it collapse with you? Or do you feel secure that He will not make stones rain down on you as He did with the people of Lot, then you will not find any protector to protect you nor any helper to save you from being destroyed?

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Other translations of verse 68

Do you feel secure that He will not make some part of the land swallow you up, or send against you a storm of stones? Thereupon you will find none to protect you.

Do you then feel secure that He will not cause a side of the land to swallow you up, or that He will not send against you a violent sand-storm? Then, you shall find no Wakîl (guardian - one to guard you from the torment).

Feel ye then secure that He will not cause a slope of the land to engulf you, or send a sand-storm upon you, and then ye will find that ye have no protector?

Do ye then feel secure that He will not cause you to be swallowed up beneath the earth when ye are on land, or that He will not send against you a violent tornado (with showers of stones) so that ye shall find no one to carry out your affairs for you?

What! Do you then feel secure that He will not cause a tract of land to engulf you or send on you a tornado? Then you shall not find a protector for yourselves.

Do you then (feel) secure that He will not cause a side of the land to cave you in, or send against you a squall of gravel? Thereafter you will find no constant trustee for you.

Verse 68 word by word

  1. أَفَأَمِنتُمْ afa-amintum Do you then feel secure أ م ن
  2. أَن an that (not)
  3. يَخْسِفَ yakhsifa He will cause to swallow خ س ف
  4. بِكُمْ bikum you
  5. جَانِبَ jāniba side ج ن ب
  6. ٱلْبَرِّ l-bari (of) the land ب ر ر
  7. أَوْ aw or
  8. يُرْسِلَ yur'sila send ر س ل
  9. عَلَيْكُمْ ʿalaykum against you
  10. حَاصِبًا ḥāṣiban a storm of stones ح ص ب
  11. ثُمَّ thumma Then
  12. لَا lā not
  13. تَجِدُوا۟ tajidū you will find و ج د
  14. لَكُمْ lakum for you
  15. وَكِيلًا wakīlan a guardian و ك ل

Verses related to verse 68

Cited by Ibn Kathir in his explanation of this verse

  • Al-Qamar 54:34

    إِنَّآ أَرْسَلْنَا عَلَيْهِمْ حَاصِبًا إِلَّآ ءَالَ لُوطٍ نَّجَّيْنَٰهُم بِسَحَرٍ

    Indeed, We sent upon them a storm of stones, except the family of Lot - We saved them before dawn.

  • Hud 11:82

    فَلَمَّا جَآءَ أَمْرُنَا جَعَلْنَا عَٰلِيَهَا سَافِلَهَا وَأَمْطَرْنَا عَلَيْهَا حِجَارَةً مِّن سِجِّيلٍ مَّنضُودٍ

    So when Our command came, We made the highest part [of the city] its lowest and rained upon them stones of layered hard clay, [which were]

  • Al-Mulk 67:16–17

    ءَأَمِنتُم مَّن فِى ٱلسَّمَآءِ أَن يَخْسِفَ بِكُمُ ٱلْأَرْضَ فَإِذَا هِىَ تَمُورُ …

    Do you feel secure that He who is above would not cause the earth to swallow you and suddenly it would sway? …

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  • Al-Isra 17:69

    أَمْ أَمِنتُمْ أَن يُعِيدَكُمْ فِيهِ تَارَةً أُخْرَىٰ فَيُرْسِلَ عَلَيْكُمْ قَاصِفًا مِّنَ ٱلرِّيحِ فَيُغْرِقَكُم بِمَا كَفَرْتُمْ ثُمَّ لَا تَجِدُوا۟ لَكُمْ عَلَيْنَا بِهِۦ تَبِيعًا

    Or do you feel secure that He will not send you back into it [i.e., the sea] another time and send upon you a hurricane of wind and drown you for what you denied? Then you would not find for yourselves against Us an avenger.

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