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Surah An-Naml, Verse 5

سورة النمل، الآية ٥

27:5 Juz 19 Hizb 38 Page 377 of the mushaf Meccan surah

Text of verse 27:5

أُو۟لَٰٓئِكَ ٱلَّذِينَ لَهُمْ سُوٓءُ ٱلْعَذَابِ وَهُمْ فِى ٱلْـَٔاخِرَةِ هُمُ ٱلْأَخْسَرُونَ ۝٥

Transliteration

ulāika alladhīna lahum sūu l-ʿadhābi wahum fī l-ākhirati humu l-akhsarūna

Translation

Those are the ones for whom there will be the worst of punishment, and in the Hereafter they are the greatest losers.

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Verse 5 of Surah An-Naml (27:5), 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 5

Al-Mukhtasar

Such people will suffer in the worldly life through trials and humiliation and in the Hereafter they suffer the greatest loss, losing themselves and their families on the Day of Judgement and entering Hell forever.

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Other translations of verse 5

Such are those who will have a terrible punishment, and it is they who will be the greatest losers in the Hereafter.

They are those for whom there will be an evil torment (in this world). And in the Hereafter they will be the greatest losers.

Those are they for whom is the worst of punishment, and in the Hereafter they will be the greatest losers.

Such are they for whom a grievous Penalty is (waiting); and in the Hereafter theirs will be the greatest loss.

These are they who shall have an evil punishment, and in the hereafter they shall be the greatest losers.

Those are they for whom is an odious torment, and they, (always) they, are the ones who will be the greatest losers in the Hereafter.

Verse 5 word by word

  1. أُو۟لَٰٓئِكَ ulāika Those
  2. ٱلَّذِينَ alladhīna (are) the ones
  3. لَهُمْ lahum for them
  4. سُوٓءُ sūu (is) an evil س و أ
  5. ٱلْعَذَابِ l-ʿadhābi [the] punishment ع ذ ب
  6. وَهُمْ wahum and they
  7. فِى fī in
  8. ٱلْـَٔاخِرَةِ l-ākhirati the Hereafter أ خ ر
  9. هُمُ humu [they]
  10. ٱلْأَخْسَرُونَ l-akhsarūna (will be) the greatest losers خ س ر

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  • Hud 11:22

    لَا جَرَمَ أَنَّهُمْ فِى ٱلْـَٔاخِرَةِ هُمُ ٱلْأَخْسَرُونَ

    Assuredly, it is they in the Hereafter who will be the greatest losers.

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