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Surah An-Nisa, Verse 79

سورة النساء، الآية ٧٩

4:79 Juz 5 Hizb 9 Page 90 of the mushaf Medinan surah

Text of verse 4:79

مَّآ أَصَابَكَ مِنْ حَسَنَةٍ فَمِنَ ٱللَّهِ وَمَآ أَصَابَكَ مِن سَيِّئَةٍ فَمِن نَّفْسِكَ وَأَرْسَلْنَٰكَ لِلنَّاسِ رَسُولًا وَكَفَىٰ بِٱللَّهِ شَهِيدًا ۝٧٩

Transliteration

mā aṣābaka min ḥasanatin famina l-lahi wamā aṣābaka min sayyi-atin famin nafsika wa-arsalnāka lilnnāsi rasūlan wakafā bil-lahi shahīdan

Translation

What comes to you of good is from Allāh, but what comes to you of evil, [O man], is from yourself.201 And We have sent you, [O Muḥammad], to the people as a messenger, and sufficient is Allāh as Witness.202

Notes

[201] As a result of your mistakes or sins.
[202] i.e., never absent, always seeing and having complete knowledge of everything within His dominion.

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Verse 79 of Surah An-Nisa (4:79), a Medinan surah, is in juz 5, on page 90 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 79

Al-Mukhtasar

O humankind, any good that pleases you – such as wealth or children – is from Allah. He has sent it to you through His grace. Whatever bad occurs to you in respect of your wealth or children is from your own self because of the sins you commit. I have sent you, O Prophet, as a messenger to all people to communicate to them the message of your Lord. Allah is enough of a witness to the truth of what you communicate from Him, because of the evidences and proof He has given you.

Tafsir of the whole Surah An-Nisa

Other translations of verse 79

Whatever good happens to you57 is from Allah, but whatever bad happens to you is from yourself58. We have sent you [O Prophet] as a messenger to mankind, and sufficient is Allah as a witness.

Notes

[57] O children of Adam!
[58] is due to your mistakes or sins.

Whatever of good reaches you, is from Allâh, but whatever of evil befalls you, is from yourself. And We have sent you (O Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم) as a Messenger to mankind, and Allâh is Sufficient as a Witness.27

Notes

[27] (V.4:79) See the footnote (A) of the (V.2:252).

Whatever of good befalleth thee (O man) it is from Allah, and whatever of ill befalleth thee it is from thyself. We have sent thee (Muhammad) as a messenger unto mankind and Allah is sufficient as Witness.

Whatever good, (O man!) happens to thee, is from Allah; but whatever evil happens to thee, is from thy (own) soul. and We have sent thee as a messenger to (instruct) mankind. And enough is Allah for a witness.

Whatever benefit comes to you (O man!), it is from Allah, and whatever misfortune befalls you, it is from yourself, and We have sent you (O Prophet!), to mankind as a messenger; and Allah is sufficient as a witness.

Whatever fair (thing) alights upon (Literally: afflicts) you, then it is from Allah, and whatever odious (thing) afflicts you, then it is from yourself; and We have sent you to mankind (as) a Messenger; and Allah suffices as Ever-Witnessing.

Verse 79 word by word

  1. مَّآ mā What(ever)
  2. أَصَابَكَ aṣābaka befalls you ص و ب
  3. مِنْ min of
  4. حَسَنَةٍ ḥasanatin (the) good ح س ن
  5. فَمِنَ famina (is) from
  6. ٱللَّهِ l-lahi Allah
  7. وَمَآ wamā and whatever
  8. أَصَابَكَ aṣābaka befalls you ص و ب
  9. مِن min of
  10. سَيِّئَةٍ sayyi-atin (the) evil س و أ
  11. فَمِن famin (is) from
  12. نَّفْسِكَ nafsika yourself ن ف س
  13. وَأَرْسَلْنَٰكَ wa-arsalnāka And We have sent you ر س ل
  14. لِلنَّاسِ lilnnāsi for the people أ ن س
  15. رَسُولًا rasūlan (as) a Messenger ر س ل
  16. وَكَفَىٰ wakafā and is sufficient ك ف ي
  17. بِٱللَّهِ bil-lahi Allah
  18. شَهِيدًا shahīdan (as) a Witness ش ه د

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  • Ash-Shuraa 42:30

    وَمَآ أَصَٰبَكُم مِّن مُّصِيبَةٍ فَبِمَا كَسَبَتْ أَيْدِيكُمْ وَيَعْفُوا۟ عَن كَثِيرٍ

    And whatever strikes you of disaster - it is for what your hands have earned; but He pardons much.

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