Text of verse 18:41
أَوْ يُصْبِحَ مَآؤُهَا غَوْرًا فَلَن تَسْتَطِيعَ لَهُۥ طَلَبًا ٤١
Transliteration
aw yuṣ'biḥa māuhā ghawran falan tastaṭīʿa lahu ṭalaban
Translation
Or its water will become sunken [into the earth], so you would never be able to seek it."
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Rachid Maach Nabil Radwan (Noor International) Muhammad Hamidullah
Isa García Noor International (España) Noor International (Latinoamérica) Julio Cortés
Salomo Keyzer
Abubakar Mahmoud Gumi
محمد جوناگڑھی
Bubenheim & Elias
Ali Muhsin Al-Barwani
Hamza Roberto Piccardo
মুহিউদ্দীন খান
Rowwad Tercüme Merkezi Şaban Piriş Ali Özek ve arkadaşları Elmalılı Hamdi Yazır
Kementerian Agama RI
Mahmud Muhammad Abduh
حسین تاجی گلهداری
Abdullah Muhammad Basmeih
Sherif Ahmeti
Məmmədəliyev & Bünyadov
Besim Korkut
馬堅
Ivan Hrbek
Ahsen Böre
三田了一
최영길
Abdul Hameed & Parappoor
Abdulaziz Guroalim Saromantang
Einar Berg
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George Grigore
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ஜான் டிரஸ்ட்
Якуб ибн Нугман
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Муҳаммад Содиқ Муҳаммад Юсуф
Verse 41 of Surah Al-Kahf (18:41), a Meccan surah, is in juz 15, on page 298 of the mushaf. Read it in Arabic with its transliteration, translations and tafsir, and listen to it recited by 73 reciters.
Tafsir of verse 41
Al-Mukhtasar
Or its water may sink so deep into the ground that you will never be able to reach it again in any way. Once the water sinks deep, the garden will not survive.
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Other translations of verse 41
Or its water may sink, so you will never be able to get it back.”
"Or the water thereof (of the gardens) becomes deep-sunken (underground) so that you will never be able to seek it."
Or some morning the water thereof will be lost in the earth so that thou canst not make search for it.
"Or the water of the garden will run off underground so that thou wilt never be able to find it."
Or its waters should sink down into the ground so that you are unable to find it.
Or that in the morning its water will be deep-sunken so that you will never be able to seek it out."
Verse 41 word by word
أَوْ
aw Or
يُصْبِحَ
yuṣ'biḥa will become ص ب ح
مَآؤُهَا
māuhā its water م و ه
غَوْرًا
ghawran sunken غ و ر
فَلَن
falan so never
تَسْتَطِيعَ
tastaṭīʿa you will be able ط و ع
لَهُۥ
lahu to find it
طَلَبًا
ṭalaban to find it ط ل ب
Verses related to verse 41
Cited by Ibn Kathir in his explanation of this verse
Al-Mulk 67:30
قُلْ أَرَءَيْتُمْ إِنْ أَصْبَحَ مَآؤُكُمْ غَوْرًا فَمَن يَأْتِيكُم بِمَآءٍ مَّعِينٍۭ
Say, "Have you considered: if your water was to become sunken [into the earth], then who could bring you flowing water?"
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