سورة النحل، الآية ٥٨
وَإِذَا بُشِّرَ أَحَدُهُم بِٱلْأُنثَىٰ ظَلَّ وَجْهُهُۥ مُسْوَدًّا وَهُوَ كَظِيمٌ ٥٨
wa-idhā bushira aḥaduhum bil-unthā ẓalla wajhuhu mus'waddan wahuwa kaẓīmun
And when one of them is informed of [the birth of] a female, his face becomes dark, and he suppresses grief.
Verse 58 of Surah An-Nahl (16:58), a Meccan surah, is in juz 14, on page 273 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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When one of these idolaters is given the news of the birth of a female his face darkens due to the extreme dislike of such news and his heart is filled with worry and grief. Then, he attributes to Allah what he does not like for himself!
When one of them is given the good news of a female baby, his face darkens while suppressing his anguish.
And when the news of (the birth of) a female (child) is brought to any of them, his face becomes dark, and he is filled with inward grief!
When if one of them receiveth tidings of the birth of a female, his face remaineth darkened, and he is wroth inwardly.
When news is brought to one of them, of (the birth of) a female (child), his face darkens, and he is filled with inward grief!
And when a daughter is announced to one of them his face becomes black and he is full of wrath.
And when one of them is given the tidings of (the birth) of a female, his face lingers blackened and he is ever-repressed (with sorrow).
أَلَكُمُ ٱلذَّكَرُ وَلَهُ ٱلْأُنثَىٰ …
Is the male for you and for Him the female? …
أَلَآ إِنَّهُم مِّنْ إِفْكِهِمْ لَيَقُولُونَ …
Unquestionably, it is out of their [invented] falsehood that they say, …
They share a sequence of words with this verse: useful for telling them apart when memorising.
وَإِذَا بُشِّرَ أَحَدُهُم بِمَا ضَرَبَ لِلرَّحْمَٰنِ مَثَلًا ظَلَّ وَجْهُهُۥ مُسْوَدًّا وَهُوَ كَظِيمٌ
And when one of them is given good tidings of that which he attributes to the Most Merciful in comparison [i.e., a daughter], his face becomes dark, and he suppresses grief.
