سورة المزمل، الآية ١٧
فَكَيْفَ تَتَّقُونَ إِن كَفَرْتُمْ يَوْمًا يَجْعَلُ ٱلْوِلْدَٰنَ شِيبًا ١٧
fakayfa tattaqūna in kafartum yawman yajʿalu l-wil'dāna shīban
Then how can you fear, if you disbelieve, a Day that will make the children white-haired?1783
[1783] Another meaning is "How can you avoid [punishment]" on such a Day?
Verse 17 of Surah Al-Muzzammil (73:17), 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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So how will you protect yourselves - if you reject Allah and deny His messenger - from a long, severe day that will make the head of young children white because of the severity of its horror and its length.
If you disbelieve, then how will you protect yourselves against a Day that will turn children’s hair gray?
Then how can you avoid the punishment, if you disbelieve, on a Day (i.e. the Day of Resurrection) that will make the children grey-headed?
Then how, if ye disbelieve, will ye protect yourselves upon the day which will turn children grey,
Then how shall ye, if ye deny (Allah), guard yourselves against a Day that will make children hoary-headed?-
How, then, will you guard yourselves, if you disbelieve, on the day which shall make children grey-headed?
So, in case you disbelieve, how will you protect yourselves against a Day that will make the- newborn hoary-headed?
