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Surah Al-Qiyamah, Verse 35

سورة القيامة، الآية ٣٥

75:35 Juz 29 Hizb 58 Page 578 of the mushaf Meccan surah

Text of verse 75:35

ثُمَّ أَوْلَىٰ لَكَ فَأَوْلَىٰٓ ۝٣٥

Transliteration

thumma awlā laka fa-awlā

Translation

Then woe to you, and woe!

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Verse 35 of Surah Al-Qiyamah (75:35), a Meccan surah, is in juz 29, on page 578 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 35

Al-Mukhtasar

He then repeated the sentence by way of emphasis and stated: “Again, closer and closer it comes to you.”

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Other translations of verse 35

Again, woe to you, and woe!

Again, woe to you [O man (disbeliever)]! And then (again) woe to you!

Again nearer unto thee and nearer (is the doom).

Again, Woe to thee, (O men!), yea, woe!

Again (consider how) nearer to you and nearer.

Thereafter (it is) more appropriate for you, then more appropriate!

Verse 35 word by word

  1. ثُمَّ thumma Then
  2. أَوْلَىٰ awlā woe و ل ي
  3. لَكَ laka to you
  4. فَأَوْلَىٰٓ fa-awlā and woe و ل ي

Verses related to verse 35

Cited by Ibn Kathir in his explanation of this verse

  • Ad-Dukhan 44:49

    ذُقْ إِنَّكَ أَنتَ ٱلْعَزِيزُ ٱلْكَرِيمُ

    [It will be said], "Taste! Indeed, you are the honored, the noble!

  • Al-Mursalat 77:46

    كُلُوا۟ وَتَمَتَّعُوا۟ قَلِيلًا إِنَّكُم مُّجْرِمُونَ

    [O disbelievers], eat and enjoy yourselves a little; indeed, you are criminals.

  • Az-Zumar 39:15

    فَٱعْبُدُوا۟ مَا شِئْتُم مِّن دُونِهِۦ قُلْ إِنَّ ٱلْخَٰسِرِينَ ٱلَّذِينَ خَسِرُوٓا۟ أَنفُسَهُمْ وَأَهْلِيهِمْ يَوْمَ ٱلْقِيَٰمَةِ أَلَا ذَٰلِكَ هُوَ ٱلْخُسْرَانُ ٱلْمُبِينُ

    So worship what you will besides Him." Say, "Indeed, the losers are the ones who will lose themselves and their families on the Day of Resurrection. Unquestionably, that is the manifest loss."

  • Fussilat 41:40

    إِنَّ ٱلَّذِينَ يُلْحِدُونَ فِىٓ ءَايَٰتِنَا لَا يَخْفَوْنَ عَلَيْنَآ أَفَمَن يُلْقَىٰ فِى ٱلنَّارِ خَيْرٌ أَم مَّن يَأْتِىٓ ءَامِنًا يَوْمَ ٱلْقِيَٰمَةِ ٱعْمَلُوا۟ مَا شِئْتُمْ إِنَّهُۥ بِمَا تَعْمَلُونَ بَصِيرٌ

    Indeed, those who inject deviation into Our verses are not concealed from Us. So, is he who is cast into the Fire better or he who comes secure on the Day of Resurrection? Do whatever you will; indeed, He is Seeing of what you do.

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  • Al-Qiyamah 75:34

    أَوْلَىٰ لَكَ فَأَوْلَىٰ

    Woe to you, and woe!

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