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Surah An-Nazi’at, Verse 12

سورة النازعات، الآية ١٢

79:12 Juz 30 Hizb 59 Page 583 of the mushaf Meccan surah

Text of verse 79:12

قَالُوا۟ تِلْكَ إِذًا كَرَّةٌ خَاسِرَةٌ ۝١٢

Transliteration

qālū til'ka idhan karratun khāsiratun

Translation

They say, "That, then, would be a losing return."¹⁸⁴¹

Notes

[1841] i.e., "If that were so, we would not be able to escape punishment."

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Verse 12 of Surah An-Nazi’at (79:12), a Meccan surah, is in juz 30, on page 583 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 12

Al-Mukhtasar

They say: “If we are returned, that return will be a loss, and the person returning will be defrauded.”

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Other translations of verse 12

They say, “Then that would surely be a losing return⁸!”

Notes

[8] To one another.

They say: "It would in that case, be a return with loss!"

They say: Then that would be a vain proceeding.

They say: "It would, in that case, be a return with loss!"

They said: That then would be a return occasioning loss.

They will say, "Lo, that then would be a losing recurrence!"

Verse 12 word by word

قَالُوا۟ qālū They say ق و ل
تِلْكَ til'ka This
إِذًا idhan then
كَرَّةٌ karratun (would be) a return ك ر ر
خَاسِرَةٌ khāsiratun losing خ س ر

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