سورة الملك، الآية ٢٢
أَفَمَن يَمْشِى مُكِبًّا عَلَىٰ وَجْهِهِۦٓ أَهْدَىٰٓ أَمَّن يَمْشِى سَوِيًّا عَلَىٰ صِرَٰطٍ مُّسْتَقِيمٍ ٢٢
afaman yamshī mukibban ʿalā wajhihi ahdā amman yamshī sawiyyan ʿalā ṣirāṭin mus'taqīmin
Then is one who walks fallen on his face better guided or one who walks erect on a straight path?
Verse 22 of Surah Al-Mulk (67:22), a Meccan surah, is in juz 29, on page 563 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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So is the one who walks while falling on his face i.e. the idolater more guided, or the believer who walks upright on the straight path?
Who is better guided: the one who walks stumbling and falling on his face or the one who walks upright on a straight path?
Is he who walks prone (without seeing) on his face, more rightly guided, or he who (sees and) walks upright on the Straight Way (i.e. Islâmic Monotheism)?
Is he who goeth groping on his face more rightly guided, or he who walketh upright on a straight road?
Is then one who walks headlong, with his face grovelling, better guided,- or one who walks evenly on a Straight Way?
What! is he who goes prone upon his face better guided or he who walks upright upon a straight path?
Then, is he who walks tossed down upon his face better guided than he who walks (perfectly) level on a straight Path?
They share a sequence of words with this verse: useful for telling them apart when memorising.
عَلَىٰ صِرَٰطٍ مُّسْتَقِيمٍ
On a straight path.
