سورة المؤمنون، الآية ٣
وَٱلَّذِينَ هُمْ عَنِ ٱللَّغْوِ مُعْرِضُونَ ٣
wa-alladhīna hum ʿani l-laghwi muʿ'riḍūna
And they who turn away from ill speech
Verse 3 of Surah Al-Mu’minun (23:3), a Meccan surah, is in juz 18, on page 342 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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Those who turned away from falsehood and futility, especially those futile actions and speech which was sinful.
and those who turn away from all that is vain,
And those who turn away from Al-Laghw (dirty, false, evil vain talk, falsehood, and all that Allâh has forbidden).
And who shun vain conversation,
Who avoid vain talk;
And who keep aloof from what is vain,
And the ones who from idle talk are veering away.
وَٱلَّذِينَ لَا يَشْهَدُونَ ٱلزُّورَ وَإِذَا مَرُّوا۟ بِٱللَّغْوِ مَرُّوا۟ كِرَامًا
And [they are] those who do not testify to falsehood, and when they pass near ill speech, they pass by with dignity.
They share a sequence of words with this verse: useful for telling them apart when memorising.
إِنَّ ٱلَّذِينَ لَا يَرْجُونَ لِقَآءَنَا وَرَضُوا۟ بِٱلْحَيَوٰةِ ٱلدُّنْيَا وَٱطْمَأَنُّوا۟ بِهَا وَٱلَّذِينَ هُمْ عَنْ ءَايَٰتِنَا غَٰفِلُونَ
Indeed, those who do not expect the meeting with Us and are satisfied with the life of this world and feel secure therein and those who are heedless of Our signs -
