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Surah Al-Qasas, Verse 40

سورة القصص، الآية ٤٠

28:40 Juz 20 Hizb 39 Page 390 of the mushaf Meccan surah

Text of verse 28:40

فَأَخَذْنَٰهُ وَجُنُودَهُۥ فَنَبَذْنَٰهُمْ فِى ٱلْيَمِّ فَٱنظُرْ كَيْفَ كَانَ عَٰقِبَةُ ٱلظَّٰلِمِينَ ۝٤٠

Transliteration

fa-akhadhnāhu wajunūdahu fanabadhnāhum fī l-yami fa-unẓur kayfa kāna ʿāqibatu l-ẓālimīna

Translation

So We took him and his soldiers and threw them into the sea.1104 So see how was the end of the wrongdoers.

Notes

[1104] Allāh (subḥānahu wa taʿālā) caused them to leave all their worldly wealth behind and enter the sea in pursuit of the Children of Israel. See 26:52-66.

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Verse 40 of Surah Al-Qasas (28:40), a Meccan surah, is in juz 20, on page 390 of the mushaf. Read it in Arabic with its transliteration, translations and tafsir, and listen to it recited by 73 reciters.

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Tafsir of verse 40

Al-Mukhtasar

So I seized him and his armies, and threw them into the sea, destroying them by drowning them all. O Messenger! Ponder over what the outcome and ending of the oppressors was: it was destruction.

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Other translations of verse 40

So We seized him and his soldiers and flung them into the sea16. See how was the end of the wrongdoers!

Notes

[16] Allah caused them to enter the sea in pursuit of Moses and the believers.

So We seized him and his hosts, and We threw them all into the sea (and drowned them). So behold (O Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم) what was the end of the Zâlimûn [wrong-doers, polytheists and those who disbelieved in the Oneness of their Lord (Allâh), or rejected the advice of His Messenger Mûsâ (Moses) عليه السلام].

Therefor We seized him and his hosts, and abandoned them unto the sea. Behold the nature of the consequence for evil-doers!

So We seized him and his hosts, and We flung them into the sea: Now behold what was the end of those who did wrong!

So We caught hold of him and his hosts, then We cast them into the sea, and see how was the end of the unjust.

So We took him (away) and his hosts, then We flung them off into the main. So look into how was the end of the unjust.

Verse 40 word by word

  1. فَأَخَذْنَٰهُ fa-akhadhnāhu So We seized him أ خ ذ
  2. وَجُنُودَهُۥ wajunūdahu and his hosts ج ن د
  3. فَنَبَذْنَٰهُمْ fanabadhnāhum and We threw them ن ب ذ
  4. فِى fī in
  5. ٱلْيَمِّ l-yami the sea ي م م
  6. فَٱنظُرْ fa-unẓur So see ن ظ ر
  7. كَيْفَ kayfa how ك ي ف
  8. كَانَ kāna was ك و ن
  9. عَٰقِبَةُ ʿāqibatu (the) end ع ق ب
  10. ٱلظَّٰلِمِينَ l-ẓālimīna (of) the wrongdoers ظ ل م

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Verses with similar wording

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  • Adh-Dhariyat 51:40

    فَأَخَذْنَٰهُ وَجُنُودَهُۥ فَنَبَذْنَٰهُمْ فِى ٱلْيَمِّ وَهُوَ مُلِيمٌ

    So We took him and his soldiers and cast them into the sea, and he was blameworthy.

  • As-Saffat 37:73

    فَٱنظُرْ كَيْفَ كَانَ عَٰقِبَةُ ٱلْمُنذَرِينَ

    Then look how was the end of those who were warned -

  • Yunus 10:39

    بَلْ كَذَّبُوا۟ بِمَا لَمْ يُحِيطُوا۟ بِعِلْمِهِۦ وَلَمَّا يَأْتِهِمْ تَأْوِيلُهُۥ كَذَٰلِكَ كَذَّبَ ٱلَّذِينَ مِن قَبْلِهِمْ فَٱنظُرْ كَيْفَ كَانَ عَٰقِبَةُ ٱلظَّٰلِمِينَ

    Rather, they have denied that which they encompass not in knowledge and whose interpretation has not yet come to them. Thus did those before them deny. Then observe how was the end of the wrongdoers.

  • Az-Zukhruf 43:25

    فَٱنتَقَمْنَا مِنْهُمْ فَٱنظُرْ كَيْفَ كَانَ عَٰقِبَةُ ٱلْمُكَذِّبِينَ

    So We took retribution from them; then see how was the end of the deniers.

  • Al-A’raf 7:84

    وَأَمْطَرْنَا عَلَيْهِم مَّطَرًا فَٱنظُرْ كَيْفَ كَانَ عَٰقِبَةُ ٱلْمُجْرِمِينَ

    And We rained upon them a rain [of stones]. Then see how was the end of the criminals.

  • An-Naml 27:51

    فَٱنظُرْ كَيْفَ كَانَ عَٰقِبَةُ مَكْرِهِمْ أَنَّا دَمَّرْنَٰهُمْ وَقَوْمَهُمْ أَجْمَعِينَ

    Then look how was the outcome of their plan - that We destroyed them and their people, all.

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