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Surah An-Nisa, Verse 138

سورة النساء، الآية ١٣٨

4:138 Juz 5 Hizb 10 Page 100 of the mushaf Medinan surah

Text of verse 4:138

بَشِّرِ ٱلْمُنَٰفِقِينَ بِأَنَّ لَهُمْ عَذَابًا أَلِيمًا ۝١٣٨

Transliteration

bashiri l-munāfiqīna bi-anna lahum ʿadhāban alīman

Translation

Give tidings to the hypocrites that there is for them a painful punishment -

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Verse 138 of Surah An-Nisa (4:138), a Medinan surah, is in juz 5, on page 100 of the mushaf. Read it in Arabic with its transliteration, translations and tafsir, and listen to it recited by 72 reciters.

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Tafsir of verse 138

Al-Mukhtasar

O Prophet, announce to the hypocrites – who show themselves as believers on the outside, but hide disbelief inside – that on the Day of Judgement Allah will give them a painful punishment.

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Other translations of verse 138

Give tidings to the hypocrites, that for them there will be a painful punishment,

Give to the hypocrites the tidings that there is for them a painful torment.³⁸

Notes

[38] (V.4:138) See "Hypocrisy" - Appendix 2.

Bear unto the hypocrites the tidings that for them there is a painful doom;

To the Hypocrites give the glad tidings that there is for them (but) a grievous penalty;-

Announce to the hypocrites that they shall have a painful chastisement:

Give (good) tidings to the hypocrites that they will have a painful torment.

Verse 138 word by word

بَشِّرِ bashiri Give tidings ب ش ر
ٱلْمُنَٰفِقِينَ l-munāfiqīna (to) the hypocrites ن ف ق
بِأَنَّ bi-anna that
لَهُمْ lahum for them
عَذَابًا ʿadhāban (is) a punishment ع ذ ب
أَلِيمًا alīman painful أ ل م

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