Text of verse 53:21
أَلَكُمُ ٱلذَّكَرُ وَلَهُ ٱلْأُنثَىٰ ٢١
Transliteration
alakumu l-dhakaru walahu l-unthā
Translation
Is the male for you and for Him the female?
Translation in another language
Mahmoud Khalil Al-Hussary
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Surah An-Najm, Verse 21
سورة النجم، الآية ٢١
Verse 21 of Surah An-Najm (53:21), a Meccan surah, is in juz 27, on page 526 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 21
Al-Mukhtasar
O idolaters, do you have boys whom you like, whilst He (may He be glorified) has girls which you dislike?
Other translations of verse 21
Do you choose for yourselves males and for Him females?
Is it for you the males and for Him the females?
Are yours the males and His the females?
What! for you the male sex, and for Him, the female?
What! for you the males and for Him the females!
Do you have the male (s) and He the female (s)?