Text of verse 16:85
وَإِذَا رَءَا ٱلَّذِينَ ظَلَمُوا۟ ٱلْعَذَابَ فَلَا يُخَفَّفُ عَنْهُمْ وَلَا هُمْ يُنظَرُونَ ٨٥
Transliteration
wa-idhā raā alladhīna ẓalamū l-ʿadhāba falā yukhaffafu ʿanhum walā hum yunẓarūna
Translation
And when those who wronged see the punishment, it will not be lightened for them, nor will they be reprieved.
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Rachid Maach Nabil Radwan (Noor International) Muhammad Hamidullah
Isa García Noor International (España) Noor International (Latinoamérica) Julio Cortés
Salomo Keyzer
Abubakar Mahmoud Gumi
محمد جوناگڑھی
Bubenheim & Elias
Ali Muhsin Al-Barwani
Hamza Roberto Piccardo
মুহিউদ্দীন খান
Rowwad Tercüme Merkezi Şaban Piriş Ali Özek ve arkadaşları Elmalılı Hamdi Yazır
Kementerian Agama RI
Mahmud Muhammad Abduh
حسین تاجی گلهداری
Abdullah Muhammad Basmeih
Sherif Ahmeti
Məmmədəliyev & Bünyadov
Besim Korkut
馬堅
Ivan Hrbek
Ahsen Böre
三田了一
최영길
Abdul Hameed & Parappoor
Abdulaziz Guroalim Saromantang
Einar Berg
Józef Bielawski
Samir El-Hayek
George Grigore
Эльмир Кулиев
Knut Bernström
ஜான் டிரஸ்ட்
Якуб ибн Нугман
สมาคมนักเรียนเก่าอาหรับ ประเทศไทย
Муҳаммад Содиқ Муҳаммад Юсуф
Verse 85 of Surah An-Nahl (16:85), a Meccan surah, is in juz 14, on page 276 of the mushaf. Read it in Arabic with its transliteration, translations and tafsir, and listen to it recited by 73 reciters.
Tafsir of verse 85
Al-Mukhtasar
When the wrongdoers and idolaters will see the punishment, it will not be lightened for them and they will not be given respite by it being delayed from them. Instead, they will enter it to live in it forever.
Tafsir of the whole Surah An-Nahl
Other translations of verse 85
When the wrongdoers face the punishment, it will not be lightened for them, nor will they be given any respite.
And when those who did wrong (the disbelievers) will see the torment, then it will not be lightened unto them, nor will they be given respite.
And when those who did wrong behold the doom, it will not be made light for them, nor will they be reprieved.
When the wrong-doers (actually) see the Penalty, then will it in no way be mitigated, nor will they then receive respite.
And when those who are unjust shall see the chastisement, it shall not be lightened for them, nor shall they be respited.
And when the ones who did injustice see the torment, then it will not be lightened for them, and they will not be respited.
Verse 85 word by word
وَإِذَا
wa-idhā And when
رَءَا
raā (will) see ر أ ي
ٱلَّذِينَ
alladhīna those who
ظَلَمُوا۟
ẓalamū wronged ظ ل م
ٱلْعَذَابَ
l-ʿadhāba the punishment ع ذ ب
فَلَا
falā then not
يُخَفَّفُ
yukhaffafu it will be lightened خ ف ف
عَنْهُمْ
ʿanhum for them
وَلَا
walā and not
هُمْ
hum they
يُنظَرُونَ
yunẓarūna will be given respite ن ظ ر
Verses related to verse 85
Cited by Ibn Kathir in his explanation of this verse
Al-Furqan 25:12–14
إِذَا رَأَتْهُم مِّن مَّكَانٍۭ بَعِيدٍ سَمِعُوا۟ لَهَا تَغَيُّظًا وَزَفِيرًا …
When it [i.e., the Hellfire] sees them from a distant place, they will hear its fury and roaring. …
Al-Kahf 18:53
وَرَءَا ٱلْمُجْرِمُونَ ٱلنَّارَ فَظَنُّوٓا۟ أَنَّهُم مُّوَاقِعُوهَا وَلَمْ يَجِدُوا۟ عَنْهَا مَصْرِفًا
And the criminals will see the Fire and will be certain that they are to fall therein. And they will not find from it a way elsewhere.
Al-Anbya 21:39–40
لَوْ يَعْلَمُ ٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا۟ حِينَ لَا يَكُفُّونَ عَن وُجُوهِهِمُ ٱلنَّارَ وَلَا عَن ظُهُورِهِمْ وَلَا هُمْ يُنصَرُونَ …
If those who disbelieved but knew the time when they will not avert the Fire from their faces or from their backs and they will not be aided... …
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Surah An-Nahl
سورة النحل
128 verses · Meccan