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Surah Al-Waqi’ah, Verse 5

سورة الواقعة، الآية ٥

56:5 Juz 27 Hizb 54 Page 534 of the mushaf Meccan surah

Text of verse 56:5

وَبُسَّتِ ٱلْجِبَالُ بَسًّا ۝٥

Transliteration

wabussati l-jibālu bassan

Translation

And the mountains are broken down, crumbling

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Verse 5 of Surah Al-Waqi’ah (56:5), a Meccan surah, is in juz 27, on page 534 of the mushaf. Read it in Arabic with its transliteration, translations and tafsir, and listen to it recited by 73 reciters.

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Tafsir of verse 5

Al-Mukhtasar

And the mountains are completely crushed.

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Other translations of verse 5

and the mountains crushed to pieces,

And the mountains will be powdered to dust,

And the hills are ground to powder

And the mountains shall be crumbled to atoms,

And the mountains shall be made to crumble with (an awful) crumbling,

And the mountains crumbled with a violent crumbling,

Verse 5 word by word

  1. وَبُسَّتِ wabussati And will be crumbled ب س س
  2. ٱلْجِبَالُ l-jibālu the mountains ج ب ل
  3. بَسًّا bassan (with awful) crumbling ب س س

Verses related to verse 5

Cited by Ibn Kathir in his explanation of this verse

  • Al-Muzzammil 73:14

    يَوْمَ تَرْجُفُ ٱلْأَرْضُ وَٱلْجِبَالُ وَكَانَتِ ٱلْجِبَالُ كَثِيبًا مَّهِيلًا

    On the Day the earth and the mountains will convulse and the mountains will become a heap of sand pouring down.

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