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Surah Ar-Rahman, Verse 20

سورة الرحمن، الآية ٢٠

55:20 Juz 27 Hizb 54 Page 532 of the mushaf Medinan surah

Text of verse 55:20

بَيْنَهُمَا بَرْزَخٌ لَّا يَبْغِيَانِ ۝٢٠

Transliteration

baynahumā barzakhun lā yabghiyāni

Translation

Between them is a barrier so neither of them transgresses.

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Verse 20 of Surah Ar-Rahman (55:20), a Medinan surah, is in juz 27, on page 532 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 20

Al-Mukhtasar

Between them is a barrier that prevents each one of them from transgressing over the other so that the sweet remains sweet and the salty remains salty.

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Other translations of verse 20

yet between them is a barrier so that they do not cross⁶.

Notes

[6] See footnote 25:53.

Between them is a barrier which none of them can transgress.

There is a barrier between them. They encroach not (one upon the other).

Between them is a Barrier which they do not transgress:

Between them is a barrier which they cannot pass.

Between them (both) is an isthmus (i.e., an obstruction) (which) they do not overpass. (Literally: none of them is inequitable)

Verse 20 word by word

بَيْنَهُمَا baynahumā Between both of them ب ي ن
بَرْزَخٌ barzakhun (is) a barrier ب ر ز خ
لَّا lā not
يَبْغِيَانِ yabghiyāni they transgress ب غ ي

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