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Surah Al-Kahf, Verse 59

سورة الكهف، الآية ٥٩

18:59 Juz 15 Hizb 30 Page 300 of the mushaf Meccan surah

Text of verse 18:59

وَتِلْكَ ٱلْقُرَىٰٓ أَهْلَكْنَٰهُمْ لَمَّا ظَلَمُوا۟ وَجَعَلْنَا لِمَهْلِكِهِم مَّوْعِدًا ۝٥٩

Transliteration

watil'ka l-qurā ahlaknāhum lammā ẓalamū wajaʿalnā limahlikihim mawʿidan

Translation

And those cities - We destroyed them when they wronged, and We made for their destruction an appointed time.

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Verse 59 of Surah Al-Kahf (18:59), a Meccan surah, is in juz 15, on page 300 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 59

Al-Mukhtasar

Those disbelieving towns close to you such as the towns of the people of Hud, Salih and Shuayb —I destroyed them when they wronged themselves by disbelief and sins, and I set for their destruction an appointed time.

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Other translations of verse 59

Those are the towns We destroyed when they persisted in wrongdoing, and We set an appointed time for their destruction.

And these towns (population, - ‘Âd, Thamûd) We destroyed them when they did wrong. And We appointed a fixed time for their destruction.

And (all) those townships! We destroyed them when they did wrong, and We appointed a fixed time for their destruction.

Such were the populations we destroyed when they committed iniquities; but we fixed an appointed time for their destruction.

And (as for) these towns, We destroyed them when they acted unjustly, and We have appointed a time for their destruction.

And those towns, We caused them to perish as soon as they did injustice, and We made for their perishing an appointment.

Verse 59 word by word

  1. وَتِلْكَ watil'ka And these
  2. ٱلْقُرَىٰٓ l-qurā [the] towns ق ر ي
  3. أَهْلَكْنَٰهُمْ ahlaknāhum We destroyed them ه ل ك
  4. لَمَّا lammā when
  5. ظَلَمُوا۟ ẓalamū they wronged ظ ل م
  6. وَجَعَلْنَا wajaʿalnā and We made ج ع ل
  7. لِمَهْلِكِهِم limahlikihim for their destruction ه ل ك
  8. مَّوْعِدًا mawʿidan an appointed time و ع د

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