Indeed, We have warned you of an impending punishment on the Day when a man will observe what his hands have put forth1831 and the disbeliever will say, "Oh, I wish that I were dust!"
Notes
[1831] i.e., the deeds he did in this world, which await him in the Hereafter.
Verse 40 of Surah An-Naba (78:40), a Meccan surah, is in juz 30, on page 583 of the mushaf. Read it in Arabic with its transliteration, translations and tafsir, and listen to it recited by 74 reciters.
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Tafsir of verse 40
Al-Mukhtasar
O people! Indeed, I have warned you of an impending punishment which will occur on the day when a person will see what deeds he sent forth in the world, and the disbeliever will say, wishing safety from the punishment: “If only I had become dust like the animals!” when it is said to them on the Day of Judgement: “Become dust”.
Indeed, We have warned you of an imminent punishment on the Day when everyone will see what his hands have sent forth13, and the disbeliever will say, “Oh, I wish that I were dust!”
Notes
[13] i.e., the deeds he did in this world.
Verily, We have warned you of a near torment - the Day when man will see that (the deeds) which his hands have sent forth, and the disbeliever will say: "Woe to me! Would that I were dust!"
Lo! We warn you of a doom at hand, a day whereon a man will look on that which his own hands have sent before, and the disbeliever will cry: "Would that I were dust!"
Verily, We have warned you of a Penalty near, the Day when man will see (the deeds) which his hands have sent forth, and the Unbeliever will say, "Woe unto me! Would that I were (metre) dust!"
Surely We have warned you of a chastisement near at hand: the day when man shall see what his two hands have sent before, and the unbeliever shall say: O! would that I were dust!
Surely We have warned you of a near torment on the Day when a person will look at whatever his hands have forwarded, and the disbeliever will say, "Oh, would that I were dust!"
Verse 40 word by word
إِنَّآinnāIndeed We
أَنذَرْنَٰكُمْandharnākum[We] have warned youن ذ ر
And the record [of deeds] will be placed [open], and you will see the criminals fearful of that within it, and they will say, "Oh, woe to us! What is this book that leaves nothing small or great except that it has enumerated it?" And they will find what they did present [before them]. And your Lord does injustice to no one.
