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Surah Al-Mu’minun, Verse 104

سورة المؤمنون، الآية ١٠٤

23:104 Juz 18 Hizb 35 Page 348 of the mushaf Meccan surah

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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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.

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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.

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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

  1. تَلْفَحُ talfaḥu Will burn ل ف ح
  2. وُجُوهَهُمُ wujūhahumu their faces و ج ه
  3. ٱلنَّارُ l-nāru the Fire ن و ر
  4. وَهُمْ wahum and they
  5. فِيهَا fīhā in it
  6. كَٰلِحُونَ kāliḥūna (will) grin with displaced lips ك ل ح

Hadiths that cite this verse

Differing grades Jami' at-Tirmidhi 3176

that the Prophet (ﷺ) said: "Therein they will grin, with displaced lips... (23:103) - he said - "He will be broiled by the Fire, such that his upper lip will shrink until it reaches the middle of his head, and his lower lip will droop until it is near his navel."

"‏ 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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