سورة المعارج، الآية ١٧
تَدْعُوا۟ مَنْ أَدْبَرَ وَتَوَلَّىٰ ١٧
tadʿū man adbara watawallā
It invites he who turned his back [on truth] and went away [from obedience]
Verse 17 of Surah Al-Ma’arij (70:17), 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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It will call out to whoever turned away from the truth, distanced himself from it, did not bring faith in it nor acted upon it.
It will call everyone who turned their backs and disobeyed,
Calling2 (all) such as turn their backs and turn away their faces (from Faith) [picking and swallowing them up from that great gathering of mankind on the Day of Resurrection just as a bird picks up a food-grain from the earth with its beak and swallows it up] (Tafsir Al-Qurtubî)
[2] (V.70:17) (i.e. the Hell will call out): "[O Kafir (O disbeliever in Allâh, His angels, His Books, His Messengers, Day of Resurrection and in Al-Qadar (Divine Preordainments), O Mushrik (O polytheist, disbeliever in the Oneness of Allâh).
It calleth him who turned and fled (from truth),
Inviting (all) such as turn their backs and turn away their faces (from the Right).
It shall claim him who turned and fled (from truth),
Calling him who withdrew and turned away,
