Text of verse 23:104
تَلْفَحُ وُجُوهَهُمُ ٱلنَّارُ وَهُمْ فِيهَا كَٰلِحُونَ ١٠٤
Transliteration
talfaḥu wujūhahumu l-nāru wahum fīhā kāliḥūna
Translation
The Fire will sear their faces, and they therein will have taut smiles.968
Notes [968] Their lips having been contracted by scorching until the teeth are exposed.
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Rachid Maach Nabil Radwan (Noor International) Muhammad Hamidullah
Isa García Noor International (España) Noor International (Latinoamérica) Julio Cortés
Salomo Keyzer
Abubakar Mahmoud Gumi
محمد جوناگڑھی
Bubenheim & Elias
Ali Muhsin Al-Barwani
Hamza Roberto Piccardo
মুহিউদ্দীন খান
Rowwad Tercüme Merkezi Şaban Piriş Ali Özek ve arkadaşları Elmalılı Hamdi Yazır
Kementerian Agama RI
Mahmud Muhammad Abduh
حسین تاجی گلهداری
Abdullah Muhammad Basmeih
Sherif Ahmeti
Məmmədəliyev & Bünyadov
Besim Korkut
馬堅
Ivan Hrbek
Ahsen Böre
三田了一
최영길
Abdul Hameed & Parappoor
Abdulaziz Guroalim Saromantang
Einar Berg
Józef Bielawski
Samir El-Hayek
George Grigore
Эльмир Кулиев
Knut Bernström
ஜான் டிரஸ்ட்
Якуб ибн Нугман
สมาคมนักเรียนเก่าอาหรับ ประเทศไทย
Муҳаммад Содиқ Муҳаммад Юсуф
Verse 104 of Surah Al-Mu’minun (23:104), a Meccan surah, is in juz 18, on page 348 of the mushaf. Read it in Arabic with its transliteration, translations and tafsir, and listen to it recited by 73 reciters.
Tafsir of verse 104
Al-Mukhtasar
The fire will burn their faces. Therein, their top and bottom lips will shrink away from their teeth, due to severe frowning.
Tafsir of the whole Surah Al-Mu’minun
Other translations of verse 104
The Fire will scorch their faces, leaving them disfigured47 .
Notes [47] Kālih means a face whose skin has been removed by scorching until the jaws are exposed.
The Fire will burn their faces, and therein they will grin, with displaced lips (disfigured).
The fire burneth their faces, and they are glum therein.
The Fire will burn their faces, and they will therein grin, with their lips displaced.
The fire shall scorch their faces, and they therein shall be in severe affliction.
The Fire is searing their faces, and they are therein glumly glowering.
Verse 104 word by word
تَلْفَحُ
talfaḥu Will burn ل ف ح
وُجُوهَهُمُ
wujūhahumu their faces و ج ه
ٱلنَّارُ
l-nāru the Fire ن و ر
وَهُمْ
wahum and they
فِيهَا
fīhā in it
كَٰلِحُونَ
kāliḥūna (will) grin with displaced lips ك ل ح
Hadiths that cite this verse
Differing grades
Jami' at-Tirmidhi 3176
" تَشْوِيهِ النَّارُ فَتَقَلَّصُ شَفَتُهُ الْعُلْيَا حَتَّى تَبْلُغَ وَسَطَ رَأْسِهِ وَتَسْتَرْخِي شَفَتُهُ السُّفْلَى حَتَّى تَضْرِبَ سُرَّتَهُ "
Narrated by Abu Sa‘īd al-Khudri + 3 other versions
Other hadiths (1)
Verses related to verse 104
Cited by Ibn Kathir in his explanation of this verse
Ibrahim 14:50
سَرَابِيلُهُم مِّن قَطِرَانٍ وَتَغْشَىٰ وُجُوهَهُمُ ٱلنَّارُ
Their garments of liquid pitch and their faces covered by the Fire
Al-Anbya 21:39
لَوْ يَعْلَمُ ٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا۟ حِينَ لَا يَكُفُّونَ عَن وُجُوهِهِمُ ٱلنَّارَ وَلَا عَن ظُهُورِهِمْ وَلَا هُمْ يُنصَرُونَ
If those who disbelieved but knew the time when they will not avert the Fire from their faces or from their backs and they will not be aided...
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