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Surah An-Najm, Verse 53

سورة النجم، الآية ٥٣

53:53 Juz 27 Hizb 53 Page 528 of the mushaf Meccan surah

Text of verse 53:53

وَٱلْمُؤْتَفِكَةَ أَهْوَىٰ ۝٥٣

Transliteration

wal-mu'tafikata ahwā

Translation

And the overturned towns¹⁵⁷³ He hurled down

Notes

[1573] Whose inhabitants defied Prophet Lot.

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Verse 53 of Surah An-Najm (53:53), a Meccan surah, is in juz 27, on page 528 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 53

Al-Mukhtasar

He raised the villages of the people of Lot to the sky and then dropped them to ground.

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Other translations of verse 53

And He toppled the cities²⁰ upside down,

Notes

[20] Of Sodom and Gomorrah whose dwellers defied Prophet Lot (عليه السلام).

And He destroyed the overthrown cities [of Sodom to which Prophet Lût (Lot) was sent].

And Al-Mu'tafikah He destroyed

And He destroyed the Overthrown Cities (of Sodom and Gomorrah).

And the overthrown cities did He overthrow,

And the City of Falsehood, He (also) made it sweep down,

Verse 53 word by word

وَٱلْمُؤْتَفِكَةَ wal-mu'tafikata And the overturned cities أ ف ك
أَهْوَىٰ ahwā He overthrew ه و ي

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