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Surah An-Nazi’at, Verse 46

سورة النازعات، الآية ٤٦

79:46 Juz 30 Hizb 59 Page 584 of the mushaf Meccan surah

Text of verse 79:46

كَأَنَّهُمْ يَوْمَ يَرَوْنَهَا لَمْ يَلْبَثُوٓا۟ إِلَّا عَشِيَّةً أَوْ ضُحَىٰهَا ۝٤٦

Transliteration

ka-annahum yawma yarawnahā lam yalbathū illā ʿashiyyatan aw ḍuḥāhā

Translation

It will be, on the Day they see it,1851 as though they had not remained [in the world] except for an afternoon or a morning thereof.

Notes

[1851] i.e., the Hour, the Resurrection.

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Verse 46 of Surah An-Nazi’at (79:46), 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 46

Al-Mukhtasar

It is as if on the day they see the Hour for themselves, they will not have remained in their worldly lives except for a single evening or morning.

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Other translations of verse 46

On the Day when they see it14, it will be as if they had remained [in this world] no more than an evening or a morning.

Notes

[14] i.e., the Hour.

The Day they see it, (it will be) as if they had not tarried (in this world) except an afternoon or a morning.

On the day when they behold it, it will be as if they had but tarried for an evening or the morn thereof.

The Day they see it, (It will be) as if they had tarried but a single evening, or (at most till) the following morn!

On the day that they see it, it will be as though they had not tarried but the latter part of a day or the early part of it.

It will be as if, on the Day they see it, they have not lingered except for a nightfall or its forenoon.

Verse 46 word by word

  1. كَأَنَّهُمْ ka-annahum As though they
  2. يَوْمَ yawma (the) Day ي و م
  3. يَرَوْنَهَا yarawnahā they see it ر أ ي
  4. لَمْ lam not
  5. يَلْبَثُوٓا۟ yalbathū they had remained ل ب ث
  6. إِلَّا illā except
  7. عَشِيَّةً ʿashiyyatan an evening ع ش و
  8. أَوْ aw or
  9. ضُحَىٰهَا ḍuḥāhā a morning thereof ض ح و

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