سورة الواقعة، الآية ٨٣
فَلَوْلَآ إِذَا بَلَغَتِ ٱلْحُلْقُومَ ٨٣
falawlā idhā balaghati l-ḥul'qūma
Then why, when it [i.e., the soul at death] reaches the throat
Verse 83 of Surah Al-Waqi’ah (56:83), 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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Why not, when the soul reaches the throat...
Then why [are you helpless] when the soul reaches the throat,
Then why do you not (intervene) when (the soul of a dying person) reaches the throat?
Why, then, when (the soul) cometh up to the throat (of the dying)
Then why do ye not (intervene) when (the soul of the dying man) reaches the throat,-
Why is it not then that when it (soul) comes up to the throat,
Then had it been that, when (the self) (i.e., the self of the dying person) reaches the gullet (of the dying)-
One hadith cites this verse; its text is in Arabic.
مَّا يَفْتَحِ ٱللَّهُ لِلنَّاسِ مِن رَّحْمَةٍ فَلَا مُمْسِكَ لَهَا وَمَا يُمْسِكْ فَلَا مُرْسِلَ لَهُۥ مِنۢ بَعْدِهِۦ وَهُوَ ٱلْعَزِيزُ ٱلْحَكِيمُ
Whatever Allāh grants to people of mercy - none can withhold it; and whatever He withholds - none can release it thereafter. And He is the Exalted in Might, the Wise.
