Text of verse 68:36
مَا لَكُمْ كَيْفَ تَحْكُمُونَ ٣٦
Transliteration
mā lakum kayfa taḥkumūna
Translation
What is [the matter] with you? How do you judge?
سورة القلم، الآية ٣٦
مَا لَكُمْ كَيْفَ تَحْكُمُونَ ٣٦
mā lakum kayfa taḥkumūna
What is [the matter] with you? How do you judge?
Verse 36 of Surah Al-Qalam (68:36), a Meccan surah, is in juz 29, on page 565 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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O idolaters! What is wrong with you; how can you come to this oppressive, warped conclusion?
What is the matter with you that you make such a judgment?
What is the matter with you? How judge you?
What aileth you? How foolishly ye judge!
What is the matter with you? How judge ye?
What has happened to you? How do you judge?
What is it with you? How do you judge?
They share a sequence of words with this verse: useful for telling them apart when memorising.
مَا لَكُمْ كَيْفَ تَحْكُمُونَ
What is [wrong] with you? How do you make judgement?
قُلْ هَلْ مِن شُرَكَآئِكُم مَّن يَهْدِىٓ إِلَى ٱلْحَقِّ قُلِ ٱللَّهُ يَهْدِى لِلْحَقِّ أَفَمَن يَهْدِىٓ إِلَى ٱلْحَقِّ أَحَقُّ أَن يُتَّبَعَ أَمَّن لَّا يَهِدِّىٓ إِلَّآ أَن يُهْدَىٰ فَمَا لَكُمْ كَيْفَ تَحْكُمُونَ
Say, "Are there of your 'partners' any who guides to the truth?" Say, "Allāh guides to the truth. So is He who guides to the truth more worthy to be followed or he who guides not unless he is guided? Then what is [wrong] with you - how do you judge?"