Text of verse 55:41
يُعْرَفُ ٱلْمُجْرِمُونَ بِسِيمَٰهُمْ فَيُؤْخَذُ بِٱلنَّوَٰصِى وَٱلْأَقْدَامِ ٤١
Transliteration
yuʿ'rafu l-muj'rimūna bisīmāhum fayu'khadhu bil-nawāṣī wal-aqdāmi
Translation
The criminals will be known by their marks, and they will be seized by the forelocks and the feet.
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Rachid Maach Nabil Radwan (Noor International) Muhammad Hamidullah
Isa García Noor International (España) Noor International (Latinoamérica) Julio Cortés
Salomo Keyzer
Abubakar Mahmoud Gumi
محمد جوناگڑھی
Bubenheim & Elias
Ali Muhsin Al-Barwani
Hamza Roberto Piccardo
মুহিউদ্দীন খান
Rowwad Tercüme Merkezi Şaban Piriş Ali Özek ve arkadaşları Elmalılı Hamdi Yazır
Kementerian Agama RI
Mahmud Muhammad Abduh
حسین تاجی گلهداری
Abdullah Muhammad Basmeih
Sherif Ahmeti
Məmmədəliyev & Bünyadov
Besim Korkut
馬堅
Ivan Hrbek
Ahsen Böre
三田了一
최영길
Abdul Hameed & Parappoor
Abdulaziz Guroalim Saromantang
Einar Berg
Józef Bielawski
Samir El-Hayek
George Grigore
Эльмир Кулиев
Knut Bernström
ஜான் டிரஸ்ட்
Якуб ибн Нугман
สมาคมนักเรียนเก่าอาหรับ ประเทศไทย
Муҳаммад Содиқ Муҳаммад Юсуф
Verse 41 of Surah Ar-Rahman (55:41), a Medinan surah, is in juz 27, on page 533 of the mushaf. Read it in Arabic with its transliteration, translations and tafsir, and listen to it recited by 74 reciters.
Tafsir of verse 41
Al-Mukhtasar
The guilty ones will be recognised on that day by their mark, which is the blackness of their faces and the blueness of their eyes. Their forelocks will be tied to their feet and they will be thrown into Hell.
Tafsir of the whole Surah Ar-Rahman
Other translations of verse 41
The wicked will be known by their marks and will be seized by their forelocks and their feet.
The Mujrimûn (polytheists, criminals, sinners) will be known by their marks (black faces), and they will be seized by their forelocks and their feet.
The guilty will be known by their marks, and will be taken by the forelocks and the feet.
(For) the sinners will be known by their marks: and they will be seized by their forelocks and their feet.
The guilty shall be recognized by their marks, so they shall be seized by the forelocks and the feet.
The criminals will be recognized by their marks, and (they) will be taken (away) by (their) forelocks and (their) feet.
Verse 41 word by word
يُعْرَفُ
yuʿ'rafu Will be known ع ر ف
ٱلْمُجْرِمُونَ
l-muj'rimūna the criminals ج ر م
بِسِيمَٰهُمْ
bisīmāhum by their marks س و م
فَيُؤْخَذُ
fayu'khadhu and will be seized أ خ ذ
بِٱلنَّوَٰصِى
bil-nawāṣī by the forelocks ن ص ي
وَٱلْأَقْدَامِ
wal-aqdāmi and the feet ق د م
Hadiths that cite this verse
One hadith cites this verse; its text is in Arabic.
Verses related to verse 41
Cited by Ibn Kathir in his explanation of this verse
Al-Haqqah 69:16
وَٱنشَقَّتِ ٱلسَّمَآءُ فَهِىَ يَوْمَئِذٍ وَاهِيَةٌ
And the heaven will split [open], for that Day it is infirm.
Al-Furqan 25:25
وَيَوْمَ تَشَقَّقُ ٱلسَّمَآءُ بِٱلْغَمَٰمِ وَنُزِّلَ ٱلْمَلَٰٓئِكَةُ تَنزِيلًا
And [mention] the Day when the heaven will split open with [emerging] clouds, and the angels will be sent down in successive descent.
Al-Hijr 15:92–93
فَوَرَبِّكَ لَنَسْـَٔلَنَّهُمْ أَجْمَعِينَ …
So by your Lord, We will surely question them all …
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Surah Ar-Rahman
سورة الرحمن
78 verses · Medinan