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Surah An-Naml, Verse 24

سورة النمل، الآية ٢٤

27:24 Juz 19 Hizb 38 Page 379 of the mushaf Meccan surah

Text of verse 27:24

وَجَدتُّهَا وَقَوْمَهَا يَسْجُدُونَ لِلشَّمْسِ مِن دُونِ ٱللَّهِ وَزَيَّنَ لَهُمُ ٱلشَّيْطَٰنُ أَعْمَٰلَهُمْ فَصَدَّهُمْ عَنِ ٱلسَّبِيلِ فَهُمْ لَا يَهْتَدُونَ ۝٢٤

Transliteration

wajadttuhā waqawmahā yasjudūna lilshamsi min dūni l-lahi wazayyana lahumu l-shayṭānu aʿmālahum faṣaddahum ʿani l-sabīli fahum lā yahtadūna

Translation

I found her and her people prostrating to the sun instead of Allāh, and Satan has made their deeds pleasing to them and averted them from [His] way, so they are not guided,

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Verse 24 of Surah An-Naml (27:24), a Meccan surah, is in juz 19, on page 379 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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Al-Mukhtasar

I found her and her people prostrating to the sun instead of Allah, and Satan has made their deeds pleasing to them and averted them from [His] way, so they are not guided. I found this woman and I found her people prostrating to the sun instead of Allah, and Satan has beautified for them the actions of idolatry and sins they are on, so he has turned them away from the path of truth, and thus they are not guided to Him.

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Other translations of verse 24

I found her and her people prostrating before the sun instead of Allah. Satan has made their deeds appealing to them and turned them away from the right way, so they are not guided.

"I found her and her people worshipping the sun instead of Allâh, and Shaitân (Satan) has made their deeds fair-seeming to them, and has barred them from (Allâh’s) Way: so they have no guidance."

I found her and her people worshipping the sun instead of Allah; and Satan maketh their works fairseeming unto them, and debarreth them from the way (of Truth), so that they go not aright;

"I found her and her people worshipping the sun besides Allah: Satan has made their deeds seem pleasing in their eyes, and has kept them away from the Path,- so they receive no guidance,-

I found her and her people adoring the sun instead of Allah, and the Shaitan has made their deeds fair-seeming to them and thus turned them from the way, so they do not go aright

I found her and her people prostrating to the sun, apart from Allah; and Ash-Shaytan (The ever-vicious, i.e., the Devil) has adorned (i.e., made attractive) their deeds to them, so has barred them from the way, so that they are not guided,

Verse 24 word by word

  1. وَجَدتُّهَا wajadttuhā And I found her و ج د
  2. وَقَوْمَهَا waqawmahā and her people ق و م
  3. يَسْجُدُونَ yasjudūna prostrating س ج د
  4. لِلشَّمْسِ lilshamsi to the sun ش م س
  5. مِن min instead of Allah
  6. دُونِ dūni instead of Allah د و ن
  7. ٱللَّهِ l-lahi instead of Allah
  8. وَزَيَّنَ wazayyana and has made fair-seeming ز ي ن
  9. لَهُمُ lahumu to them
  10. ٱلشَّيْطَٰنُ l-shayṭānu the Shaitaan ش ط ن
  11. أَعْمَٰلَهُمْ aʿmālahum their deeds ع م ل
  12. فَصَدَّهُمْ faṣaddahum and averted them ص د د
  13. عَنِ ʿani from
  14. ٱلسَّبِيلِ l-sabīli the Way س ب ل
  15. فَهُمْ fahum so they
  16. لَا lā (are) not
  17. يَهْتَدُونَ yahtadūna guided ه د ي

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    وَعَادًا وَثَمُودَا۟ وَقَد تَّبَيَّنَ لَكُم مِّن مَّسَٰكِنِهِمْ وَزَيَّنَ لَهُمُ ٱلشَّيْطَٰنُ أَعْمَٰلَهُمْ فَصَدَّهُمْ عَنِ ٱلسَّبِيلِ وَكَانُوا۟ مُسْتَبْصِرِينَ

    And [We destroyed] ʿAad and Thamūd, and it has become clear to you from their [ruined] dwellings. And Satan had made pleasing to them their deeds and averted them from the path, and they were endowed with perception.

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