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Surah An-Naml, Verse 4

سورة النمل، الآية ٤

27:4 Juz 19 Hizb 38 Page 377 of the mushaf Meccan surah

Text of verse 27:4

إِنَّ ٱلَّذِينَ لَا يُؤْمِنُونَ بِٱلْـَٔاخِرَةِ زَيَّنَّا لَهُمْ أَعْمَٰلَهُمْ فَهُمْ يَعْمَهُونَ ۝٤

Transliteration

inna alladhīna lā yu'minūna bil-ākhirati zayyannā lahum aʿmālahum fahum yaʿmahūna

Translation

Indeed, for those who do not believe in the Hereafter, We have made pleasing to them their deeds, so they wander blindly.

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Verse 4 of Surah An-Naml (27:4), a Meccan surah, is in juz 19, on page 377 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 4

Al-Mukhtasar

The disbelievers who do not bring faith in the afterlife and the reward and punishment therein - I adorned their bad deeds for them so they continued in doing them, thus they are confused without finding their way towards what is right or guidance.

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Other translations of verse 4

As for those who do not believe in the Hereafter, We have made their deeds appealing to them, so they wander blindly.

Verily, those who believe not in the Hereafter, We have made their deeds fair-seeming to them, so that they wander about blindly.

Lo! as for those who believe not in the Hereafter, We have made their works fairseeming unto them so that they are all astray.

As to those who believe not in the Hereafter, We have made their deeds pleasing in their eyes; and so they wander about in distraction.

As to those who do not believe in the hereafter, We have surely made their deeds fair-seeming to them, but they blindly wander on.

Surely the ones who do not believe in the Hereafter, We have adorned for them their deeds, so they are blundering (blindly);

Verse 4 word by word

  1. إِنَّ inna Indeed
  2. ٱلَّذِينَ alladhīna those who
  3. لَا lā (do) not
  4. يُؤْمِنُونَ yu'minūna believe أ م ن
  5. بِٱلْـَٔاخِرَةِ bil-ākhirati in the Hereafter أ خ ر
  6. زَيَّنَّا zayyannā We have made fair-seeming ز ي ن
  7. لَهُمْ lahum to them
  8. أَعْمَٰلَهُمْ aʿmālahum their deeds ع م ل
  9. فَهُمْ fahum so they
  10. يَعْمَهُونَ yaʿmahūna wander blindly ع م ه

Verses related to verse 4

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  • An-Najm 53:27

    إِنَّ ٱلَّذِينَ لَا يُؤْمِنُونَ بِٱلْـَٔاخِرَةِ لَيُسَمُّونَ ٱلْمَلَٰٓئِكَةَ تَسْمِيَةَ ٱلْأُنثَىٰ

    Indeed, those who do not believe in the Hereafter name the angels female names,

  • Al-Mu’minun 23:74

    وَإِنَّ ٱلَّذِينَ لَا يُؤْمِنُونَ بِٱلْـَٔاخِرَةِ عَنِ ٱلصِّرَٰطِ لَنَٰكِبُونَ

    But indeed, those who do not believe in the Hereafter are deviating from the path.

  • Al-Isra 17:10

    وَأَنَّ ٱلَّذِينَ لَا يُؤْمِنُونَ بِٱلْـَٔاخِرَةِ أَعْتَدْنَا لَهُمْ عَذَابًا أَلِيمًا

    And that those who do not believe in the Hereafter - We have prepared for them a painful punishment.

  • Al-An’am 6:113

    وَلِتَصْغَىٰٓ إِلَيْهِ أَفْـِٔدَةُ ٱلَّذِينَ لَا يُؤْمِنُونَ بِٱلْـَٔاخِرَةِ وَلِيَرْضَوْهُ وَلِيَقْتَرِفُوا۟ مَا هُم مُّقْتَرِفُونَ

    And [it is] so the hearts of those who disbelieve in the Hereafter will incline toward it [i.e., deceptive speech] and that they will be satisfied with it and that they will commit that which they are committing.

  • An-Nahl 16:104

    إِنَّ ٱلَّذِينَ لَا يُؤْمِنُونَ بِـَٔايَٰتِ ٱللَّهِ لَا يَهْدِيهِمُ ٱللَّهُ وَلَهُمْ عَذَابٌ أَلِيمٌ

    Indeed, those who do not believe in the verses of Allāh - Allāh will not guide them, and for them is a painful punishment.

  • Al-Isra 17:45

    وَإِذَا قَرَأْتَ ٱلْقُرْءَانَ جَعَلْنَا بَيْنَكَ وَبَيْنَ ٱلَّذِينَ لَا يُؤْمِنُونَ بِٱلْـَٔاخِرَةِ حِجَابًا مَّسْتُورًا

    And when you recite the Qur’ān, We put between you and those who do not believe in the Hereafter a concealed partition.

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