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Surah Al-Waqi’ah, Verse 8

سورة الواقعة، الآية ٨

56:8 Juz 27 Hizb 54 Page 534 of the mushaf Meccan surah

Text of verse 56:8

فَأَصْحَٰبُ ٱلْمَيْمَنَةِ مَآ أَصْحَٰبُ ٱلْمَيْمَنَةِ ۝٨

Transliteration

fa-aṣḥābu l-maymanati mā aṣḥābu l-maymanati

Translation

Then the companions of the right - what are the companions of the right?1609

Notes

[1609] i.e., those given their records in their right hand and who are destined for Paradise.

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Verse 8 of Surah Al-Waqi’ah (56:8), 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 8

Al-Mukhtasar

The people of the right hand, who will receive their books in their right hands. How high and great will be their rank!

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Other translations of verse 8

the people of the right – how blessed will be the people of the right2!

Notes

[2] i.e., those who receive their record of deeds in the right hand and are destined for Paradise.

So those on the Right Hand (i.e. those who will be given their Records in their right hands) - how (fortunate) will be those on the Right Hand! (As a respect for them, because they will enter Paradise).

(First) those on the right hand; what of those on the right hand?

Then (there will be) the Companions of the Right Hand;- What will be the Companions of the Right Hand?

Then (as to) the companions of the right hand; how happy are the companions of the right hand!

So (as for) the companions of the Rightness, (Or: the Right Hand) what (will become) of the companions of the Rightness?

Verse 8 word by word

  1. فَأَصْحَٰبُ fa-aṣḥābu Then (the) companions ص ح ب
  2. ٱلْمَيْمَنَةِ l-maymanati (of) the right ي م ن
  3. مَآ mā what
  4. أَصْحَٰبُ aṣḥābu (are the) companions ص ح ب
  5. ٱلْمَيْمَنَةِ l-maymanati (of) the right ي م ن

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