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Surah Ar-Rahman, Verse 56

سورة الرحمن، الآية ٥٦

55:56 Juz 27 Hizb 54 Page 533 of the mushaf Medinan surah

Text of verse 55:56

فِيهِنَّ قَٰصِرَٰتُ ٱلطَّرْفِ لَمْ يَطْمِثْهُنَّ إِنسٌ قَبْلَهُمْ وَلَا جَآنٌّ ۝٥٦

Transliteration

fīhinna qāṣirātu l-ṭarfi lam yaṭmith'hunna insun qablahum walā jānnun

Translation

In them are women limiting [their] glances,1604 untouched1605 before them by man or jinnī -

Notes

[1604] To their own mates, i.e., being chaste and modest.
[1605] Literally, they have not been caused to bleed by loss of virginity.

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Verse 56 of Surah Ar-Rahman (55:56), 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.

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Tafsir of verse 56

Al-Mukhtasar

In them there will be women who will restrict their gaze to their husbands, whose virginity was not broken by any man or jinn before their husbands.

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Other translations of verse 56

In them there will be maidens of restrained gaze14, untouched15 before them by any man or jinn.

Notes

[14] To their own mates, being chaste and modest.
[15] Lit., the maidens have not been caused to bleed by loss of virginity.

Wherein both will be Qâsirât-ut-Tarf [chaste females (wives) restraining their glances, desiring none except their husbands], with whom no man or jinni has had tamth3 before them.

Notes

[3] (V.55:56): Tamth means: Opening their hymens with sexual intercourse.

Therein are those of modest gaze, whom neither man nor jinni will have touched before them.

In them will be (Maidens), chaste, restraining their glances, whom no man or Jinn before them has touched;-

In them shall be those who restrained their eyes; before them neither man nor jinni shall have touched them.

Therein are (maidens) restraining their glances whom neither humankind nor the jinn (race) have deflowered before them;

Verse 56 word by word

  1. فِيهِنَّ fīhinna In them
  2. قَٰصِرَٰتُ qāṣirātu (will be) companions of modest gaze ق ص ر
  3. ٱلطَّرْفِ l-ṭarfi (will be) companions of modest gaze ط ر ف
  4. لَمْ lam not
  5. يَطْمِثْهُنَّ yaṭmith'hunna has touched them ط م ث
  6. إِنسٌ insun any man أ ن س
  7. قَبْلَهُمْ qablahum before them ق ب ل
  8. وَلَا walā and not
  9. جَآنٌّ jānnun any jinn ج ن ن

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    لَمْ يَطْمِثْهُنَّ إِنسٌ قَبْلَهُمْ وَلَا جَآنٌّ

    Untouched before them by man or jinnī -

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