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Surah Al-Ma’arij, Verse 39

سورة المعارج، الآية ٣٩

70:39 Juz 29 Hizb 57 Page 569 of the mushaf Meccan surah

Text of verse 70:39

كَلَّآ إِنَّا خَلَقْنَٰهُم مِّمَّا يَعْلَمُونَ ۝٣٩

Transliteration

kallā innā khalaqnāhum mimmā yaʿlamūna

Translation

No! Indeed, We have created them from that which they know.1757

Notes

[1757] i.e., a liquid disdained. So how can they expect to enter Paradise except by the will of their Creator?

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Verse 39 of Surah Al-Ma’arij (70:39), 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 39

Al-Mukhtasar

It is not as they imagine. Indeed, I created them from what they know: I created them from a contemptible fluid, and they are weak: they are incapable of bringing benefit or harm for themselves, so how could they be arrogant?

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Other translations of verse 39

By no means! We have created them from what they know14.

Notes

[14] i.e., from a disdained fluid.

No, that is not like that! Verily, We have created them out of that which they know!

Nay, verily. Lo! We created them from what they know.

By no means! For We have created them out of the (base matter) they know!

By no means! Surely We have created them of what they know.

Not at all! Surely We created them of what they know.

Verse 39 word by word

  1. كَلَّآ kallā By no means
  2. إِنَّا innā Indeed, We
  3. خَلَقْنَٰهُم khalaqnāhum [We] have created them خ ل ق
  4. مِّمَّا mimmā from what
  5. يَعْلَمُونَ yaʿlamūna they know ع ل م

Verses related to verse 39

Cited by Ibn Kathir in his explanation of this verse

  • Al-Mursalat 77:20

    أَلَمْ نَخْلُقكُّم مِّن مَّآءٍ مَّهِينٍ

    Did We not create you from a liquid disdained?

  • At-Tariq 86:5–10

    فَلْيَنظُرِ ٱلْإِنسَٰنُ مِمَّ خُلِقَ …

    So let man observe from what he was created. …

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