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Surah Al-Kahf, Verse 20

سورة الكهف، الآية ٢٠

18:20 Juz 15 Hizb 30 Page 295 of the mushaf Meccan surah

Text of verse 18:20

إِنَّهُمْ إِن يَظْهَرُوا۟ عَلَيْكُمْ يَرْجُمُوكُمْ أَوْ يُعِيدُوكُمْ فِى مِلَّتِهِمْ وَلَن تُفْلِحُوٓا۟ إِذًا أَبَدًا ۝٢٠

Transliteration

innahum in yaẓharū ʿalaykum yarjumūkum aw yuʿīdūkum fī millatihim walan tuf'liḥū idhan abadan

Translation

Indeed, if they come to know of you, they will stone you or return you to their religion. And never would you succeed, then - ever."

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Verse 20 of Surah Al-Kahf (18:20), a Meccan surah, is in juz 15, on page 295 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 20

Al-Mukhtasar

If your people discover you and find out where your whereabouts, they will kill you by stoning you, or they will force you to return to their deviated creed that you used to follow before Allah favoured you by guiding you to the true religion. If you return to that you will never succeed - not in this world nor in the Hearafter. Instead, you will suffer a great loss in both places on account of your leaving the true religion to which Allah had guided you and your returning to that deviated creed.

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Other translations of verse 20

For if they find out about you, they will stone you or force you back to their religion, and then you will never succeed.”

"For, if they come to know of you, they will stone you (to death or abuse and harm you) or turn you back to their religion; and in that case you will never be successful."

For they, if they should come to know of you, will stone you or turn you back to their religion; then ye will never prosper.

"For if they should come upon you, they would stone you or force you to return to their cult, and in that case ye would never attain prosperity."

For surely if they prevail against you they would stone you to death or force you back to their religion, and then you will never succeed.

Surely in case they get the better of you, they will stone you or bring you back to their creed, and (then) you will never prosper at all."

Verse 20 word by word

  1. إِنَّهُمْ innahum Indeed, [they]
  2. إِن in if
  3. يَظْهَرُوا۟ yaẓharū they come to know ظ ه ر
  4. عَلَيْكُمْ ʿalaykum about you
  5. يَرْجُمُوكُمْ yarjumūkum they will stone you ر ج م
  6. أَوْ aw or
  7. يُعِيدُوكُمْ yuʿīdūkum return you ع و د
  8. فِى fī to
  9. مِلَّتِهِمْ millatihim their religion م ل ل
  10. وَلَن walan And never
  11. تُفْلِحُوٓا۟ tuf'liḥū will you succeed ف ل ح
  12. إِذًا idhan then
  13. أَبَدًا abadan ever أ ب د

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