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Surah An-Nahl, Verse 87

سورة النحل، الآية ٨٧

16:87 Juz 14 Hizb 28 Page 276 of the mushaf Meccan surah

Text of verse 16:87

وَأَلْقَوْا۟ إِلَى ٱللَّهِ يَوْمَئِذٍ ٱلسَّلَمَ وَضَلَّ عَنْهُم مَّا كَانُوا۟ يَفْتَرُونَ ۝٨٧

Transliteration

wa-alqaw ilā l-lahi yawma-idhin l-salama waḍalla ʿanhum mā kānū yaftarūna

Translation

And they will impart to Allāh that Day [their] submission, and lost from them is what they used to invent.

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Verse 87 of Surah An-Nahl (16:87), 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.

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Tafsir of verse 87

Al-Mukhtasar

The idolaters will surrender and submit to Allah alone and all their fabricated claims that their idols will intercede for them before Allah will disappear.

Tafsir of the whole Surah An-Nahl

Other translations of verse 87

On that Day they will offer submission to Allah55, and all what they used to fabricate will vanish from them.

Notes

[55] They then realize that they deserve the punishment.

And they will offer (their full) submission to Allâh (Alone) on that Day, and their invented false deities [all that they used to invoke besides Allâh, e.g. idols, saints, priests, monks, angels, jinn, Jibrîl (Gabriel), Messengers] will vanish from them.

And they proffer unto Allah submission on that day, and all that they used to invent hath failed them.

That Day shall they (openly) show (their) submission to Allah; and all their inventions shall leave them in the lurch.

And they shall tender submission to Allah on that day; and what they used to forge shall depart from them.

And they will cast forth to Allah submissiveness upon that Day and whatever they used to fabricate will err away (Or: stray away) from them.

Verse 87 word by word

  1. وَأَلْقَوْا۟ wa-alqaw And they (will) offer ل ق ي
  2. إِلَى ilā to
  3. ٱللَّهِ l-lahi Allah
  4. يَوْمَئِذٍ yawma-idhin (on) that Day ي و م
  5. ٱلسَّلَمَ l-salama the submission س ل م
  6. وَضَلَّ waḍalla and (is) lost ض ل ل
  7. عَنْهُم ʿanhum from them
  8. مَّا mā what
  9. كَانُوا۟ kānū they used (to) ك و ن
  10. يَفْتَرُونَ yaftarūna invent ف ر ي

Verses related to verse 87

Cited by Ibn Kathir in his explanation of this verse

  • Maryam 19:38

    أَسْمِعْ بِهِمْ وَأَبْصِرْ يَوْمَ يَأْتُونَنَا لَٰكِنِ ٱلظَّٰلِمُونَ ٱلْيَوْمَ فِى ضَلَٰلٍ مُّبِينٍ

    How [clearly] they will hear and see the Day they come to Us, but the wrongdoers today are in clear error.

  • As-Sajdah 32:12

    وَلَوْ تَرَىٰٓ إِذِ ٱلْمُجْرِمُونَ نَاكِسُوا۟ رُءُوسِهِمْ عِندَ رَبِّهِمْ رَبَّنَآ أَبْصَرْنَا وَسَمِعْنَا فَٱرْجِعْنَا نَعْمَلْ صَٰلِحًا إِنَّا مُوقِنُونَ

    If you could but see when the criminals are hanging their heads before their Lord, [saying], "Our Lord, we have seen and heard, so return us [to the world]; we will work righteousness. Indeed, we are [now] certain."

  • Taha 20:111

    وَعَنَتِ ٱلْوُجُوهُ لِلْحَىِّ ٱلْقَيُّومِ وَقَدْ خَابَ مَنْ حَمَلَ ظُلْمًا

    And [all] faces will be humbled before the Ever-Living, the Self-Sustaining. And he will have failed who carries injustice.

Verses with similar wording

They share a sequence of words with this verse: useful for telling them apart when memorising.

  • Hud 11:21

    أُو۟لَٰٓئِكَ ٱلَّذِينَ خَسِرُوٓا۟ أَنفُسَهُمْ وَضَلَّ عَنْهُم مَّا كَانُوا۟ يَفْتَرُونَ

    Those are the ones who will have lost themselves, and lost from them is what they used to invent.

  • Al-An’am 6:24

    ٱنظُرْ كَيْفَ كَذَبُوا۟ عَلَىٰٓ أَنفُسِهِمْ وَضَلَّ عَنْهُم مَّا كَانُوا۟ يَفْتَرُونَ

    See how they will lie about themselves. And lost from them will be what they used to invent.

  • Al-A’raf 7:53

    هَلْ يَنظُرُونَ إِلَّا تَأْوِيلَهُۥ يَوْمَ يَأْتِى تَأْوِيلُهُۥ يَقُولُ ٱلَّذِينَ نَسُوهُ مِن قَبْلُ قَدْ جَآءَتْ رُسُلُ رَبِّنَا بِٱلْحَقِّ فَهَل لَّنَا مِن شُفَعَآءَ فَيَشْفَعُوا۟ لَنَآ أَوْ نُرَدُّ فَنَعْمَلَ غَيْرَ ٱلَّذِى كُنَّا نَعْمَلُ قَدْ خَسِرُوٓا۟ أَنفُسَهُمْ وَضَلَّ عَنْهُم مَّا كَانُوا۟ يَفْتَرُونَ

    Do they await except its result? The Day its result comes, those who had ignored it before will say, "The messengers of our Lord had come with the truth, so are there [now] any intercessors to intercede for us or could we be sent back to do other than what we used to do?" They will have lost themselves, and lost from them is what they used to invent.

  • Yunus 10:30

    هُنَالِكَ تَبْلُوا۟ كُلُّ نَفْسٍ مَّآ أَسْلَفَتْ وَرُدُّوٓا۟ إِلَى ٱللَّهِ مَوْلَىٰهُمُ ٱلْحَقِّ وَضَلَّ عَنْهُم مَّا كَانُوا۟ يَفْتَرُونَ

    There, [on that Day], every soul will be put to trial for what it did previously, and they will be returned to Allāh, their master, the Truth, and lost from them is whatever they used to invent.

  • Al-Qasas 28:75

    وَنَزَعْنَا مِن كُلِّ أُمَّةٍ شَهِيدًا فَقُلْنَا هَاتُوا۟ بُرْهَٰنَكُمْ فَعَلِمُوٓا۟ أَنَّ ٱلْحَقَّ لِلَّهِ وَضَلَّ عَنْهُم مَّا كَانُوا۟ يَفْتَرُونَ

    And We will extract from every nation a witness and say, "Produce your proof," and they will know that the truth belongs to Allāh, and lost from them is that which they used to invent.

  • Fussilat 41:48

    وَضَلَّ عَنْهُم مَّا كَانُوا۟ يَدْعُونَ مِن قَبْلُ وَظَنُّوا۟ مَا لَهُم مِّن مَّحِيصٍ

    And lost from them will be those they were invoking before, and they will be certain that they have no place of escape.

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