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Surah Al-Waqi’ah, Verse 60

سورة الواقعة، الآية ٦٠

56:60 Juz 27 Hizb 54 Page 536 of the mushaf Meccan surah

Text of verse 56:60

نَحْنُ قَدَّرْنَا بَيْنَكُمُ ٱلْمَوْتَ وَمَا نَحْنُ بِمَسْبُوقِينَ ۝٦٠

Transliteration

naḥnu qaddarnā baynakumu l-mawta wamā naḥnu bimasbūqīna

Translation

We have decreed death among you, and We are not to be outdone

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Verse 60 of Surah Al-Waqi’ah (56:60), a Meccan surah, is in juz 27, on page 536 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 60

Al-Mukhtasar

I determine death between you; each one of you has a fixed amount of time which he neither goes beyond nor falls short of. I am not incapable...

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Other translations of verse 60

We have ordained death among you, and nothing can overcome us

We have decreed death to you all, and We are not outstripped,

We mete out death among you, and We are not to be outrun,

We have decreed Death to be your common lot, and We are not to be frustrated

We have ordained death among you and We are not to be overcome,

We, Ever We, have determined among you Death; and in no way are We, Ever We, outstripped,

Verse 60 word by word

  1. نَحْنُ naḥnu We
  2. قَدَّرْنَا qaddarnā [We] have decreed ق د ر
  3. بَيْنَكُمُ baynakumu among you ب ي ن
  4. ٱلْمَوْتَ l-mawta the death م و ت
  5. وَمَا wamā and not
  6. نَحْنُ naḥnu We
  7. بِمَسْبُوقِينَ bimasbūqīna (are) outrun س ب ق

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