Text of verse 83:8
وَمَآ أَدْرَىٰكَ مَا سِجِّينٌ ٨
Transliteration
wamā adrāka mā sijjīnun
Translation
And what can make you know what is sijjeen?
Translation in another language
Mahmoud Khalil Al-Hussary
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Surah Al-Mutaffifin, Verse 8
سورة المطففين، الآية ٨
Verse 8 of Surah Al-Mutaffifin (83:8), a Meccan surah, is in juz 30, on page 588 of the mushaf. Read it in Arabic with its transliteration, translations and tafsir, and listen to it recited by 74 reciters.
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Tafsir of verse 8
Al-Mukhtasar
O Messenger! What will tell you what Sijjin is?!
Other translations of verse 8
How do you know what Sijjīn is?
And what will make you know what Sijjîn is?
Ah! what will convey unto thee what Sijjin is! -
And what will explain to thee what Sijjin is?
And what will make you know what the Sijjin is?
And what makes you realize what Sijjin is?
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Al-Furqan 25:13
وَإِذَآ أُلْقُوا۟ مِنْهَا مَكَانًا ضَيِّقًا مُّقَرَّنِينَ دَعَوْا۟ هُنَالِكَ ثُبُورًا
And when they are thrown into a narrow place therein bound in chains, they will cry out thereupon for destruction.
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Al-Haqqah 69:3
وَمَآ أَدْرَىٰكَ مَا ٱلْحَآقَّةُ
And what can make you know what is the Inevitable Reality?
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Al-Muddaththir 74:27
وَمَآ أَدْرَىٰكَ مَا سَقَرُ
And what can make you know what is Saqar?
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Al-Mursalat 77:14
وَمَآ أَدْرَىٰكَ مَا يَوْمُ ٱلْفَصْلِ
And what can make you know what is the Day of Judgement?
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Al-Infitar 82:17
وَمَآ أَدْرَىٰكَ مَا يَوْمُ ٱلدِّينِ
And what can make you know what is the Day of Recompense?
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Al-Mutaffifin 83:19
وَمَآ أَدْرَىٰكَ مَا عِلِّيُّونَ
And what can make you know what is ʿilliyyūn?
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At-Tariq 86:2
وَمَآ أَدْرَىٰكَ مَا ٱلطَّارِقُ
And what can make you know what is the knocker?