Text of verse 74:27
وَمَآ أَدْرَىٰكَ مَا سَقَرُ ٢٧
Transliteration
wamā adrāka mā saqaru
Translation
And what can make you know what is Saqar?
سورة المدثر، الآية ٢٧
وَمَآ أَدْرَىٰكَ مَا سَقَرُ ٢٧
wamā adrāka mā saqaru
And what can make you know what is Saqar?
Verse 27 of Surah Al-Muddaththir (74:27), a Meccan surah, is in juz 29, on page 576 of the mushaf. Read it in Arabic with its transliteration, translations and tafsir, and listen to it recited by 73 reciters.
79 recitations by 73 reciters: pick one and it plays in the player.
What will tell you, O Muhammad, what Saqar is?!
How do you know what Scorching Fire is?
And what will make you know (exactly) what Hell-fire is?
- Ah, what will convey unto thee what that burning is! -
And what will explain to thee what Hell-Fire is?
And what will make you realize what hell is?
And what makes you realize what Saqar is?
They share a sequence of words with this verse: useful for telling them apart when memorising.
وَمَآ أَدْرَىٰكَ مَا ٱلْحَآقَّةُ
And what can make you know what is the Inevitable Reality?
وَمَآ أَدْرَىٰكَ مَا يَوْمُ ٱلْفَصْلِ
And what can make you know what is the Day of Judgement?
وَمَآ أَدْرَىٰكَ مَا يَوْمُ ٱلدِّينِ
And what can make you know what is the Day of Recompense?
وَمَآ أَدْرَىٰكَ مَا سِجِّينٌ
And what can make you know what is sijjeen?
وَمَآ أَدْرَىٰكَ مَا عِلِّيُّونَ
And what can make you know what is ʿilliyyūn?
وَمَآ أَدْرَىٰكَ مَا ٱلطَّارِقُ
And what can make you know what is the knocker?