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Surah An-Nazi’at, Verse 27

سورة النازعات، الآية ٢٧

79:27 Juz 30 Hizb 59 Page 584 of the mushaf Meccan surah

Text of verse 79:27

ءَأَنتُمْ أَشَدُّ خَلْقًا أَمِ ٱلسَّمَآءُ بَنَىٰهَا ۝٢٧

Transliteration

a-antum ashaddu khalqan ami l-samāu banāhā

Translation

Are you a more difficult creation or is the heaven? He [i.e., Allāh] constructed it.

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Verse 27 of Surah An-Nazi’at (79:27), a Meccan surah, is in juz 30, on page 584 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 27

Al-Mukhtasar

O rejectors of the resurrection! Is your origination, or the origination of the heavens that He has created, harder for Allah?

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Other translations of verse 27

Are you more difficult to create or the heaven that He built?

Are you more difficult to create or is the heaven that He constructed?

Are ye the harder to create, or is the heaven that He built?

What! Are ye the more difficult to create or the heaven (above)? (Allah) hath constructed it:

Are you the harder to create or the heaven? He made it.

Are you harder in creation than the heaven? He built it!

Verse 27 word by word

  1. ءَأَنتُمْ a-antum Are you
  2. أَشَدُّ ashaddu a more difficult ش د د
  3. خَلْقًا khalqan creation خ ل ق
  4. أَمِ ami or
  5. ٱلسَّمَآءُ l-samāu the heaven س م و
  6. بَنَىٰهَا banāhā He constructed it ب ن ي

Verses related to verse 27

Cited by Ibn Kathir in his explanation of this verse

  • Ghafir 40:57

    لَخَلْقُ ٱلسَّمَٰوَٰتِ وَٱلْأَرْضِ أَكْبَرُ مِنْ خَلْقِ ٱلنَّاسِ وَلَٰكِنَّ أَكْثَرَ ٱلنَّاسِ لَا يَعْلَمُونَ

    The creation of the heavens and earth is greater than the creation of mankind, but most of the people do not know.

  • Ya-Sin 36:81

    أَوَلَيْسَ ٱلَّذِى خَلَقَ ٱلسَّمَٰوَٰتِ وَٱلْأَرْضَ بِقَٰدِرٍ عَلَىٰٓ أَن يَخْلُقَ مِثْلَهُم بَلَىٰ وَهُوَ ٱلْخَلَّٰقُ ٱلْعَلِيمُ

    Is not He who created the heavens and the earth Able to create the likes of them? Yes, [it is so]; and He is the Knowing Creator.

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