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Surah Al-Kahf, Verse 101

سورة الكهف، الآية ١٠١

18:101 Juz 16 Hizb 31 Page 304 of the mushaf Meccan surah

Text of verse 18:101

ٱلَّذِينَ كَانَتْ أَعْيُنُهُمْ فِى غِطَآءٍ عَن ذِكْرِى وَكَانُوا۟ لَا يَسْتَطِيعُونَ سَمْعًا ۝١٠١

Transliteration

alladhīna kānat aʿyunuhum fī ghiṭāin ʿan dhik'rī wakānū lā yastaṭīʿūna samʿan

Translation

Those whose eyes had been within a cover [removed] from My remembrance,801 and they were not able to hear.802

Notes

[801] i.e., Allāh's signs or the Qur’ān.
[802] They refused to listen to the Qur’ān or to understand it.

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Verse 101 of Surah Al-Kahf (18:101), a Meccan surah, is in juz 16, on page 304 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 101

Al-Mukhtasar

I shall present it to the disbelievers who were blind to the remembrance of Allah in the world, due to the veil which barred them from it, and they were unable to listen to and accept the verses of Allah.

Tafsir of the whole Surah Al-Kahf

Other translations of verse 101

those whose eyes were blind to My signs52 and they were unable to hear [the truth]53.

Notes

[52] Or of the Qur’an. [53] To believe in it.

(To) those whose eyes had been under a covering from My Reminder (this Qur’ân), and who could not bear to hear (it).

Those whose eyes were hoodwinked from My reminder, and who could not bear to hear.

(Unbelievers) whose eyes had been under a veil from remembrance of Me, and who had been unable even to hear.

They whose eyes were under a cover from My reminder and they could not even hear.

(Those) whose eyes were covered (Literally: in a covering) against My Remembrance, and they were incapable of hearing.

Verse 101 word by word

  1. ٱلَّذِينَ alladhīna Those
  2. كَانَتْ kānat had been ك و ن
  3. أَعْيُنُهُمْ aʿyunuhum their eyes ع ي ن
  4. فِى fī within
  5. غِطَآءٍ ghiṭāin a cover غ ط و
  6. عَن ʿan from
  7. ذِكْرِى dhik'rī My remembrance ذ ك ر
  8. وَكَانُوا۟ wakānū and were ك و ن
  9. لَا lā not
  10. يَسْتَطِيعُونَ yastaṭīʿūna able ط و ع
  11. سَمْعًا samʿan (to) hear س م ع

Verses related to verse 101

Cited by Ibn Kathir in his explanation of this verse

  • Az-Zukhruf 43:36

    وَمَن يَعْشُ عَن ذِكْرِ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنِ نُقَيِّضْ لَهُۥ شَيْطَٰنًا فَهُوَ لَهُۥ قَرِينٌ

    And whoever is blinded from remembrance of the Most Merciful - We appoint for him a devil, and he is to him a companion.

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