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Surah Al-Muzzammil, Verse 16

سورة المزمل، الآية ١٦

73:16 Juz 29 Hizb 58 Page 574 of the mushaf Meccan surah

Text of verse 73:16

فَعَصَىٰ فِرْعَوْنُ ٱلرَّسُولَ فَأَخَذْنَٰهُ أَخْذًا وَبِيلًا ۝١٦

Transliteration

faʿaṣā fir'ʿawnu l-rasūla fa-akhadhnāhu akhdhan wabīlan

Translation

But Pharaoh disobeyed the messenger, so We seized him with a ruinous seizure.

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Verse 16 of Surah Al-Muzzammil (73:16), a Meccan surah, is in juz 29, on page 574 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 16

Al-Mukhtasar

But Pharaoh went against the messenger who was sent to him from his Lord, so I punished him with a severe punishment in the world by drowning and in the afterlife by the punishment of the fire. So you do not go against your messenger or you will be afflicted by what afflicted him.

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Other translations of verse 16

But Pharaoh disobeyed the messenger, so We seized him with a severe punishment.

But Fir‘aun (Pharaoh) disobeyed the Messenger [Mûsâ (Moses)]; so We seized him with a severe punishment.

But Pharaoh rebelled against the messenger, whereupon We seized him with no gentle grip.

But Pharaoh disobeyed the messenger; so We seized him with a heavy Punishment.

But Firon disobeyed the messenger, so We laid on him a violent hold.

Yet Firaawn disobeyed the Messenger, so We took him (away) a baneful (The root of the Arabic word implies death by droning) taking,

Verse 16 word by word

  1. فَعَصَىٰ faʿaṣā But disobeyed ع ص ي
  2. فِرْعَوْنُ fir'ʿawnu Firaun
  3. ٱلرَّسُولَ l-rasūla the Messenger ر س ل
  4. فَأَخَذْنَٰهُ fa-akhadhnāhu so We seized him أ خ ذ
  5. أَخْذًا akhdhan (with) a seizure أ خ ذ
  6. وَبِيلًا wabīlan ruinous و ب ل

Verses related to verse 16

Cited by Ibn Kathir in his explanation of this verse

  • An-Nazi’at 79:25

    فَأَخَذَهُ ٱللَّهُ نَكَالَ ٱلْـَٔاخِرَةِ وَٱلْأُولَىٰٓ

    So Allāh seized him in exemplary punishment for the last and the first [transgression]..

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