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Surah Al-Mu’minun, Verse 36

سورة المؤمنون، الآية ٣٦

23:36 Juz 18 Hizb 35 Page 344 of the mushaf Meccan surah

Text of verse 23:36

هَيْهَاتَ هَيْهَاتَ لِمَا تُوعَدُونَ ۝٣٦

Transliteration

hayhāta hayhāta limā tūʿadūna

Translation

How far, how far, is that which you are promised.⁹⁵³

Notes

[953] i.e., how distant and improbable it is.

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Verse 36 of Surah Al-Mu’minun (23:36), a Meccan surah, is in juz 18, on page 344 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 36

Al-Mukhtasar

The promise you are being given in being taken out of your graves alive after you have died and turned into dust and decomposed bones, is very far from reality.

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Other translations of verse 36

Far-fetched, utterly far-fetched is what you are promised!¹¹

Notes

[11] i.e., How distant and improbable is the resurrection!

"Far, very far is that which you are promised!

Begone, begone, with that which ye are promised!

"Far, very far is that which ye are promised!

Far, far is that which you are threatened with.

Away, away with whatever you are promised!

Verse 36 word by word

هَيْهَاتَ hayhāta Far-(fetched)
هَيْهَاتَ hayhāta far-(fetched)
لِمَا limā is what
تُوعَدُونَ tūʿadūna you are promised و ع د

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