سورة القمر، الآية ١٦
فَكَيْفَ كَانَ عَذَابِى وَنُذُرِ ١٦
fakayfa kāna ʿadhābī wanudhuri
And how [severe] were My punishment and warning.1580
[1580] To those after them, who were expected to derive a lesson from previous occurrences.
Verse 16 of Surah Al-Qamar (54:16), a Meccan surah, is in juz 27, on page 529 of the mushaf. Read it in Arabic with its transliteration, translations and tafsir, and listen to it recited by 74 reciters.
80 recitations by 74 reciters: pick one and it plays in the player.
How was my punishment to those who denied? How was my warning that I will destroy them?
Then how were My punishment and My warnings6?
[6] As a warning to those who came after them.
Then how (terrible) was My Torment and My Warnings?
Then see how (dreadful) was My punishment after My warnings!
But how (terrible) was My Penalty and My Warning?
How (great) was then My punishment and My warning!
How then were My torment and My warnings?
They share a sequence of words with this verse: useful for telling them apart when memorising.
كَذَّبَتْ عَادٌ فَكَيْفَ كَانَ عَذَابِى وَنُذُرِ
ʿAad denied; and how [severe] were My punishment and warning.
فَكَيْفَ كَانَ عَذَابِى وَنُذُرِ
And how [severe] were My punishment and warning.
فَكَيْفَ كَانَ عَذَابِى وَنُذُرِ
And how [severe] were My punishment and warning.
