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Surah An-Naml, Verse 67

سورة النمل، الآية ٦٧

27:67 Juz 20 Hizb 39 Page 383 of the mushaf Meccan surah

Text of verse 27:67

وَقَالَ ٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوٓا۟ أَءِذَا كُنَّا تُرَٰبًا وَءَابَآؤُنَآ أَئِنَّا لَمُخْرَجُونَ ۝٦٧

Transliteration

waqāla alladhīna kafarū a-idhā kunnā turāban waābāunā a-innā lamukh'rajūna

Translation

And those who disbelieve say, "When we have become dust as well as our forefathers, will we indeed be brought out [of the graves]?

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Verse 67 of Surah An-Naml (27:67), a Meccan surah, is in juz 20, on page 383 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 67

Al-Mukhtasar

Those who disbelieved said denyingly: “When we die and become dust, is it possible we will be raised alive?

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Other translations of verse 67

Those who disbelieve say, “What! Is it that when we and our forefathers become dust, will we really be brought forth [alive]?

And those who disbelieve say: "When we have become dust - we and our fathers - shall we really be brought forth (again)?

Yet those who disbelieve say: When we have become dust like our fathers, shall we verily be brought forth (again)?

The Unbelievers say: "What! when we become dust,- we and our fathers,- shall we really be raised (from the dead)?

And those who disbelieve say: What! when we have become dust and our fathers (too), shall we certainly be brought forth?

And the ones who have disbelieved have said, "When we are dust, and our fathers, surely will we indeed be brought out (of the graves)?

Verse 67 word by word

  1. وَقَالَ waqāla And say ق و ل
  2. ٱلَّذِينَ alladhīna those who
  3. كَفَرُوٓا۟ kafarū disbelieve ك ف ر
  4. أَءِذَا a-idhā What, when
  5. كُنَّا kunnā we have become ك و ن
  6. تُرَٰبًا turāban dust ت ر ب
  7. وَءَابَآؤُنَآ waābāunā and our forefathers أ ب و
  8. أَئِنَّا a-innā will we
  9. لَمُخْرَجُونَ lamukh'rajūna surely be brought out خ ر ج

Verses related to verse 67

Cited by Ibn Kathir in his explanation of this verse

  • Maryam 19:38

    أَسْمِعْ بِهِمْ وَأَبْصِرْ يَوْمَ يَأْتُونَنَا لَٰكِنِ ٱلظَّٰلِمُونَ ٱلْيَوْمَ فِى ضَلَٰلٍ مُّبِينٍ

    How [clearly] they will hear and see the Day they come to Us, but the wrongdoers today are in clear error.

  • Al-Kahf 18:48

    وَعُرِضُوا۟ عَلَىٰ رَبِّكَ صَفًّا لَّقَدْ جِئْتُمُونَا كَمَا خَلَقْنَٰكُمْ أَوَّلَ مَرَّةٍۭ بَلْ زَعَمْتُمْ أَلَّن نَّجْعَلَ لَكُم مَّوْعِدًا

    And they will be presented before your Lord in rows, [and He will say], "You have certainly come to Us just as We created you the first time. But you claimed that We would never make for you an appointment."

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