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Surah Al-Ma’arij, Verse 16

سورة المعارج، الآية ١٦

70:16 Juz 29 Hizb 57 Page 569 of the mushaf Meccan surah

Text of verse 70:16

نَزَّاعَةً لِّلشَّوَىٰ ۝١٦

Transliteration

nazzāʿatan lilshawā

Translation

A remover of exteriors.¹⁷⁵²

Notes

[1752] This refers to the skin of the head or of the body or to the body extremities - which will be burned away.

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Verse 16 of Surah Al-Ma’arij (70:16), a Meccan surah, is in juz 29, on page 569 of the mushaf. Read it in Arabic with its transliteration, translations and tafsir, and listen to it recited by 74 reciters.

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Tafsir of verse 16

Al-Mukhtasar

Due to its extreme heat and flares, the skin of the head will come clean apart.

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Other translations of verse 16

that will strip off the scalps⁷.

Notes

[7] Referring to the skin of the head or of the body extremities, which will be burned away by severe heat and flames.

Taking away (burning completely) the head skin!

Eager to roast;

Plucking out (his being) right to the skull!-

Dragging by the head,

Constantly plucking forth the scalps,

Verse 16 word by word

نَزَّاعَةً nazzāʿatan A remover ن ز ع
لِّلشَّوَىٰ lilshawā of the skin of the head ش و ي

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