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Surah Ar-Rahman, Verse 37

سورة الرحمن، الآية ٣٧

55:37 Juz 27 Hizb 54 Page 532 of the mushaf Medinan surah

Text of verse 55:37

فَإِذَا ٱنشَقَّتِ ٱلسَّمَآءُ فَكَانَتْ وَرْدَةً كَٱلدِّهَانِ ۝٣٧

Transliteration

fa-idhā inshaqqati l-samāu fakānat wardatan kal-dihāni

Translation

And when the heaven is split open and becomes rose-colored like oil¹⁶⁰¹ -

Notes

[1601] Or "like a tanned skin."

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Verse 37 of Surah Ar-Rahman (55:37), 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 37

Al-Mukhtasar

When the sky will split open for the angels to descend from it and it will be red like molten lead or the like due to the terror of the day of judgment.

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Other translations of verse 37

When the heaven is split asunder and becomes crimson like [burnt] oil¹⁰.

Notes

[10] Or like tanned skin or molten brass.

Then when the heaven is rent asunder, and it becomes rosy or red like red-oil, or red hide - [See V.70:8]

And when the heaven splitteth asunder and becometh rosy like red hide -

When the sky is rent asunder, and it becomes red like ointment:

And when the heaven is rent asunder, and then becomes red like red hide.

Then, when the heaven is cloven so it becomes rosy-like ointment.

Verse 37 word by word

فَإِذَا fa-idhā Then when
ٱنشَقَّتِ inshaqqati is split ش ق ق
ٱلسَّمَآءُ l-samāu the heaven س م و
فَكَانَتْ fakānat and it becomes ك و ن
وَرْدَةً wardatan rose-colored و ر د
كَٱلدِّهَانِ kal-dihāni like murky oil د ه ن

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