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Surah Al-Mu’minun, Verse 64

سورة المؤمنون، الآية ٦٤

23:64 Juz 18 Hizb 35 Page 346 of the mushaf Meccan surah

Text of verse 23:64

حَتَّىٰٓ إِذَآ أَخَذْنَا مُتْرَفِيهِم بِٱلْعَذَابِ إِذَا هُمْ يَجْـَٔرُونَ ۝٦٤

Transliteration

ḥattā idhā akhadhnā mut'rafīhim bil-ʿadhābi idhā hum yajarūna

Translation

Until when We seize their affluent ones with punishment,963 at once they are crying [to Allāh] for help.

Notes

[963] In worldly life, before the punishment of the Hereafter. Although general, the description includes specifically the punishment of the Quraysh by famine.

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Verse 64 of Surah Al-Mu’minun (23:64), a Meccan surah, is in juz 18, on page 346 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 64

Al-Mukhtasar

Until when I punish those among them who lived in luxury in the world with the punishment on the Day of Judgment, they shall raise their voices calling out for help.

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Other translations of verse 64

But as soon as We seize their affluent ones with punishment31, they start crying for help.

Notes

[31] On the Day of Judgment.

Until when We seize those of them who lead a luxurious life with punishment: behold they make humble invocation with a loud voice.

Till when We grasp their luxurious ones with the punishment, behold! they supplicate.

Until, when We seize in Punishment those of them who received the good things of this world, behold, they will groan in supplication!

Until when We overtake those who lead easy lives among them with punishment, lo! they cry for succor.

Till when We took the ones who lived in luxury among them (to task) with torment, only then do they (go on) imploring.

Verse 64 word by word

  1. حَتَّىٰٓ ḥattā Until
  2. إِذَآ idhā when
  3. أَخَذْنَا akhadhnā We seize أ خ ذ
  4. مُتْرَفِيهِم mut'rafīhim their affluent ones ت ر ف
  5. بِٱلْعَذَابِ bil-ʿadhābi with the punishment ع ذ ب
  6. إِذَا idhā behold
  7. هُمْ hum They
  8. يَجْـَٔرُونَ yajarūna cry for help ج أ ر

Verses related to verse 64

Cited by Ibn Kathir in his explanation of this verse

  • Al-Muzzammil 73:11–13

    وَذَرْنِى وَٱلْمُكَذِّبِينَ أُو۟لِى ٱلنَّعْمَةِ وَمَهِّلْهُمْ قَلِيلًا …

    And leave Me with [the matter of] the deniers, those of ease [in life], and allow them respite a little. …

  • Sad 38:3

    كَمْ أَهْلَكْنَا مِن قَبْلِهِم مِّن قَرْنٍ فَنَادَوا۟ وَّلَاتَ حِينَ مَنَاصٍ

    How many a generation have We destroyed before them, and they [then] called out; but it was not a time for escape.

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