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Surah Al-Isra, Verse 72

سورة الإسراء، الآية ٧٢

17:72 Juz 15 Hizb 29 Page 289 of the mushaf Meccan surah

Text of verse 17:72

وَمَن كَانَ فِى هَٰذِهِۦٓ أَعْمَىٰ فَهُوَ فِى ٱلْـَٔاخِرَةِ أَعْمَىٰ وَأَضَلُّ سَبِيلًا ۝٧٢

Transliteration

waman kāna fī hādhihi aʿmā fahuwa fī l-ākhirati aʿmā wa-aḍallu sabīlan

Translation

And whoever is blind765 in this [life] will be blind in the Hereafter and more astray in way.

Notes

[765] i.e., refusing to see the truth.

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Verse 72 of Surah Al-Isra (17:72), 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 72

Al-Mukhtasar

And whoever’s heart is blind to accepting and submitting to the truth in this worldly life will be more blind on the Day of Judgment, not finding guidance to the path of paradise, and will be more astray from guidance. And the reward will be equal to the deed.

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Other translations of verse 72

But whoever was blind [from the truth]66 in this life will be even blinder in the Hereafter and further astray from the right way.

Notes

[66] i.e., refused to see the truth.

And whoever is blind in this world (i.e., does not see Allâh’s Signs and believes not in Him), will be blind in the Hereafter, and more astray from the Path.

Whoso is blind here will be blind in the Hereafter, and yet further from the road.

But those who were blind in this world, will be blind in the hereafter, and most astray from the Path.

And whoever is blind in this, he shall (also) be blind in the hereafter; and more erring from the way.

And whoever is blind in this (life), then he will be blind in the Hereafter and will be (even) further erring away from the way.

Verse 72 word by word

  1. وَمَن waman And whoever
  2. كَانَ kāna is ك و ن
  3. فِى fī in
  4. هَٰذِهِۦٓ hādhihi this (world)
  5. أَعْمَىٰ aʿmā blind ع م ي
  6. فَهُوَ fahuwa then he
  7. فِى fī in
  8. ٱلْـَٔاخِرَةِ l-ākhirati the Hereafter أ خ ر
  9. أَعْمَىٰ aʿmā (will be) blind ع م ي
  10. وَأَضَلُّ wa-aḍallu and more astray ض ل ل
  11. سَبِيلًا sabīlan (from the) path س ب ل

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