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Surah Al-Muzzammil, Verse 7

سورة المزمل، الآية ٧

73:7 Juz 29 Hizb 58 Page 574 of the mushaf Meccan surah

Text of verse 73:7

إِنَّ لَكَ فِى ٱلنَّهَارِ سَبْحًا طَوِيلًا ۝٧

Transliteration

inna laka fī l-nahāri sabḥan ṭawīlan

Translation

Indeed, for you by day is prolonged occupation.

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Verse 7 of Surah Al-Muzzammil (73:7), 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 7

Al-Mukhtasar

In the day you are busy in your work, and are distracted from reciting the Qur’ān, so pray at night.

Tafsir of the whole Surah Al-Muzzammil

Other translations of verse 7

In the daytime, you have plenty of time for your worldly matters.

Verily, there is for you by day prolonged occupation with ordinary duties.

Lo! thou hast by day a chain of business.

True, there is for thee by day prolonged occupation with ordinary duties:

Surely you have in the day time a long occupation.

Surely in the daytime you have long employment.

Verse 7 word by word

  1. إِنَّ inna Indeed
  2. لَكَ laka for you
  3. فِى fī in
  4. ٱلنَّهَارِ l-nahāri the day ن ه ر
  5. سَبْحًا sabḥan (is) occupation س ب ح
  6. طَوِيلًا ṭawīlan prolonged ط و ل

Hadiths that cite this verse

Good (hasan) Sunan Abu Dawud 1304

In Surat al-Muzzammil (73), the verse: "Keep vigil at night but a little, a half thereof" (2-3) has been abrogated by the following verse: "He knoweth that ye count it not, and turneth unto you in mercy. Recite then of the Qur'an that which is easy for you" (v.20). The phrase "the vigil of the…

قَالَ فِي الْمُزَّمِّلِ ‏‏{‏ قُمِ اللَّيْلَ إِلاَّ قَلِيلاً * نِصْفَهُ ‏}‏ نَسَخَتْهَا الآيَةُ الَّتِي فِيهَا ‏‏{‏ عَلِمَ أَنْ لَنْ تُحْصُوهُ فَتَابَ عَلَيْكُمْ فَاقْرَءُوا مَا تَيَسَّرَ مِنَ الْقُرْآنِ ‏}‏ وَنَاشِئَةُ…

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  • Al-Isra 17:49

    وَقَالُوٓا۟ أَءِذَا كُنَّا عِظَٰمًا وَرُفَٰتًا أَءِنَّا لَمَبْعُوثُونَ خَلْقًا جَدِيدًا

    And they say, "When we are bones and crumbled particles, will we [truly] be resurrected as a new creation?"

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