سورة الواقعة، الآية ٧٩
لَّا يَمَسُّهُۥٓ إِلَّا ٱلْمُطَهَّرُونَ ٧٩
lā yamassuhu illā l-muṭaharūna
None touch it except the purified [i.e., the angels].
Verse 79 of Surah Al-Waqi’ah (56:79), a Meccan surah, is in juz 27, on page 537 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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Only the angels, pure of sin and defects can touch it.
that none can touch except the purified ones12 –
[12] i.e., angels. It refutes the claim of the pagans that the Qur’an was sent down by devils. (See 26:210-212). Based on this verse, many Muslim jurists held that one should perform ablution prior to reading the Qur’an.
Which (that Book with Allâh) none can touch but the purified (i.e. the angels).
Which none toucheth save the purified,
Which none shall touch but those who are clean:
None shall touch it save the purified ones.
Which none shall touch except the purified,
قَالَ مَالِكٌ: «وَلَا يَحْمِلُ أَحَدٌ الْمُصْحَفَ بِعِلَاقَتِهِ وَلَا عَلَى وِسَادَةٍ إِلَّا وَهُوَ طَاهِرٌ، وَلَوْ جَازَ ذَلِكَ لَحُمِلَ فِي خَبِيئَتِهِ وَلَمْ يُكْرَهْ ذَلِكَ، لِأَنْ يَكُونَ فِي يَدَيِ الَّذِي…
وَمَا تَنَزَّلَتْ بِهِ ٱلشَّيَٰطِينُ …
And the devils have not brought it [i.e., the revelation] down. …
