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Surah Al-Mu’minun, Verse 41

سورة المؤمنون، الآية ٤١

23:41 Juz 18 Hizb 35 Page 344 of the mushaf Meccan surah

Text of verse 23:41

فَأَخَذَتْهُمُ ٱلصَّيْحَةُ بِٱلْحَقِّ فَجَعَلْنَٰهُمْ غُثَآءً فَبُعْدًا لِّلْقَوْمِ ٱلظَّٰلِمِينَ ۝٤١

Transliteration

fa-akhadhathumu l-ṣayḥatu bil-ḥaqi fajaʿalnāhum ghuthāan fabuʿ'dan lil'qawmi l-ẓālimīna

Translation

So the shriek954 seized them in truth,955 and We made them as [plant] stubble. Then away with the wrongdoing people.

Notes

[954] See footnote to 11:67.
[955] i.e., by right or in justice.

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Tafsir of verse 41

Al-Mukhtasar

So a severe scream, accompanied by a severe wind, took them by surprise, due to their deserving the punishment owing to their stubbornness. I destroyed them, leaving them like the froth of the flood. Woe be to the transgressing nation!

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Other translations of verse 41

So the huge blast12 overtook them in all justice, and We swept them away like scum13. So away with the wrongdoing people!

Notes

[12] i.e., a piercing cry.
[13] Ghutha’ literally means the froth thrown out by flood waters on the banks.

So As-Saihah (torment - awful cry) overtook them in truth (with justice), and We made them as rubbish of dead plants. So away with the people who are Zâlimûn (polytheists, wrong-doers, disbelievers in the Oneness of Allâh, disobedient to His Messengers).

So the (Awful) Cry overtook them rightfully, and We made them like as wreckage (that a torrent hurleth). A far removal for wrongdoing folk!

Then the Blast overtook them with justice, and We made them as rubbish of dead leaves (floating on the stream of Time)! So away with the people who do wrong!

So the punishment overtook them in justice, and We made them as rubbish; so away with the unjust people.

So the Shout took them (away) with the truth, then We made them (as) stubble; so far away (are gone) the unjust people!

Verse 41 word by word

  1. فَأَخَذَتْهُمُ fa-akhadhathumu So seized them أ خ ذ
  2. ٱلصَّيْحَةُ l-ṣayḥatu the awful cry ص ي ح
  3. بِٱلْحَقِّ bil-ḥaqi in truth ح ق ق
  4. فَجَعَلْنَٰهُمْ fajaʿalnāhum and We made them ج ع ل
  5. غُثَآءً ghuthāan (as) rubbish of dead leaves غ ث و
  6. فَبُعْدًا fabuʿ'dan So away ب ع د
  7. لِّلْقَوْمِ lil'qawmi with the people ق و م
  8. ٱلظَّٰلِمِينَ l-ẓālimīna the wrongdoers ظ ل م

Verses related to verse 41

Cited by Ibn Kathir in his explanation of this verse

  • Al-Ahqaf 46:25

    تُدَمِّرُ كُلَّ شَىْءٍۭ بِأَمْرِ رَبِّهَا فَأَصْبَحُوا۟ لَا يُرَىٰٓ إِلَّا مَسَٰكِنُهُمْ كَذَٰلِكَ نَجْزِى ٱلْقَوْمَ ٱلْمُجْرِمِينَ

    Destroying everything by command of its Lord. And they became so that nothing was seen [of them] except their dwellings. Thus do We recompense the criminal people.

  • Az-Zukhruf 43:76

    وَمَا ظَلَمْنَٰهُمْ وَلَٰكِن كَانُوا۟ هُمُ ٱلظَّٰلِمِينَ

    And We did not wrong them, but it was they who were the wrongdoers.

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