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Surah An-Naba, Verse 7

سورة النبإ، الآية ٧

78:7 Juz 30 Hizb 59 Page 582 of the mushaf Meccan surah

Text of verse 78:7

وَٱلْجِبَالَ أَوْتَادًا ۝٧

Transliteration

wal-jibāla awtādan

Translation

And the mountains as stakes?¹⁸²²

Notes

[1822] To stabilize the land and balance the earth.

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Verse 7 of Surah An-Naba (78:7), a Meccan surah, is in juz 30, on page 582 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 7

Al-Mukhtasar

And did I not put mountains on it like pegs to stop it from shaking?

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Other translations of verse 7

And the mountains as stakes³,

Notes

[3] Mountains go deep below the surface like pegs and icebergs, stabilizing the earth and slowing tectonic movement.

And the mountains as pegs?

And the high hills bulwarks?

And the mountains as pegs?

And the mountains as projections (thereon)?

And the mountains as bulwarks?

Verse 7 word by word

وَٱلْجِبَالَ wal-jibāla And the mountains ج ب ل
أَوْتَادًا awtādan (as) pegs و ت د

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