Text of verse 77:33
كَأَنَّهُۥ جِمَٰلَتٌ صُفْرٌ ٣٣
Transliteration
ka-annahu jimālatun ṣuf'run
Translation
As if they were yellowish [black] camels.
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Mahmoud Khalil Al-Hussary
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Surah Al-Mursalat, Verse 33
سورة المرسلات، الآية ٣٣
Verse 33 of Surah Al-Mursalat (77:33), a Meccan surah, is in juz 29, on page 581 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 33
Al-Mukhtasar
It is as if the sparks that it spits out are black mountains in their darkness and size.
Other translations of verse 33
as if they were tawny camels6.
Notes
[6] i.e., huge and black camels.
As if they were yellow camels or bundles of ropes.
(Or) as it might be camels of bright yellow hue.
"As if there were (a string of) yellow camels (marching swiftly)."
As if they were tawny camels.
As if they were yellow (heaps) of cables (Or: golden herds).
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Hadiths that cite this verse
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Sahih al-Bukhari 4933
(regarding) the explanation of "... It throws sparks as Al-Qasr ..." (V. 77:32): We used to collect logs of wood, three cubits long or longer, to store for heating purposes in winter, and we used to call it Al- Qasr, it also means a castle or a fort. "As if they were Jimalatun Sufr (yellow camels…
نَعْمِدُ إِلَى الْخَشَبَةِ ثَلاَثَةَ أَذْرُعٍ وَفَوْقَ ذَلِكَ، فَنَرْفَعُهُ لِلشِّتَاءِ فَنُسَمِّيهِ الْقَصَرَ. {كَأَنَّهُ جِمَالاَتٌ صُفْرٌ} حِبَالُ السُّفْنِ تُجْمَعُ حَتَّى تَكُونَ كَأَوْسَاطِ الرِّجَالِ.