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Surah An-Najm, Verse 29

سورة النجم، الآية ٢٩

53:29 Juz 27 Hizb 53 Page 527 of the mushaf Meccan surah

Text of verse 53:29

فَأَعْرِضْ عَن مَّن تَوَلَّىٰ عَن ذِكْرِنَا وَلَمْ يُرِدْ إِلَّا ٱلْحَيَوٰةَ ٱلدُّنْيَا ۝٢٩

Transliteration

fa-aʿriḍ ʿan man tawallā ʿan dhik'rinā walam yurid illā l-ḥayata l-dun'yā

Translation

So turn away from whoever turns his back on Our message and desires not except the worldly life.

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Verse 29 of Surah An-Najm (53:29), a Meccan surah, is in juz 27, on page 527 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 29

Al-Mukhtasar

So, O Messenger, ignore those who turn away from Allah’s remembrance without showing any concern for it, and who want only the life of this world and therefore do not work for their Hereafter because they do not believe in it.

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Other translations of verse 29

So pay no heed to those who turn away from Our message11 and who only seek the life of this world.

Notes

[11] i.e., the Qur’an.

Therefore withdraw (O Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم) from him who turns away from Our Reminder (this Qur’ân) and desires nothing but the life of this world.

Then withdraw (O Muhammad) from him who fleeth from Our remembrance and desireth but the life of the world.

Therefore shun those who turn away from Our Message and desire nothing but the life of this world.

Therefore turn aside from him who turns his back upon Our reminder and does not desire anything but this world's life.

So veer away from him who turns back from Our Remembrance and is not willing (to seek anything) except the present life (Literally: the lowly life, i.e., the life of this world).

Verse 29 word by word

  1. فَأَعْرِضْ fa-aʿriḍ So turn away ع ر ض
  2. عَن ʿan from
  3. مَّن man (him) who
  4. تَوَلَّىٰ tawallā turns away و ل ي
  5. عَن ʿan from
  6. ذِكْرِنَا dhik'rinā Our Reminder ذ ك ر
  7. وَلَمْ walam and not
  8. يُرِدْ yurid he desires ر و د
  9. إِلَّا illā except
  10. ٱلْحَيَوٰةَ l-ḥayata the life ح ي ي
  11. ٱلدُّنْيَا l-dun'yā (of) the world د ن و

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