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Surah An-Nur, Verse 24

سورة النور، الآية ٢٤

24:24 Juz 18 Hizb 36 Page 352 of the mushaf Medinan surah

Text of verse 24:24

يَوْمَ تَشْهَدُ عَلَيْهِمْ أَلْسِنَتُهُمْ وَأَيْدِيهِمْ وَأَرْجُلُهُم بِمَا كَانُوا۟ يَعْمَلُونَ ۝٢٤

Transliteration

yawma tashhadu ʿalayhim alsinatuhum wa-aydīhim wa-arjuluhum bimā kānū yaʿmalūna

Translation

On a Day when their tongues, their hands and their feet will bear witness against them as to what they used to do.

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Verse 24 of Surah An-Nur (24:24), a Medinan surah, is in juz 18, on page 352 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 24

Al-Mukhtasar

They will get that punishment on the Day of Judgment, the day when their tongues will testify against them as to the falsehood they spoke, and their hands and feet will testify against them as to what they used to do.

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Other translations of verse 24

On the Day when their tongues, hands and feet will testify against them for what they used to do.

On the Day when their tongues, their hands, and their legs (or feet) will bear witness against them as to what they used to do.

On the day when their tongues and their hands and their feet testify against them as to what they used to do,

On the Day when their tongues, their hands, and their feet will bear witness against them as to their actions.

On the day when their tongues and their hands and their feet shall bear witness against them as to what they did.

On the Day when their tongues, their hands, and their legs will testify against them as to whatever they were doing,

Verse 24 word by word

  1. يَوْمَ yawma (On a) Day ي و م
  2. تَشْهَدُ tashhadu will bear witness ش ه د
  3. عَلَيْهِمْ ʿalayhim against them
  4. أَلْسِنَتُهُمْ alsinatuhum their tongues ل س ن
  5. وَأَيْدِيهِمْ wa-aydīhim and their hands ي د ي
  6. وَأَرْجُلُهُم wa-arjuluhum and their feet ر ج ل
  7. بِمَا bimā for what
  8. كَانُوا۟ kānū they used ك و ن
  9. يَعْمَلُونَ yaʿmalūna (to) do ع م ل

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  • Al-Waqi’ah 56:24

    جَزَآءًۢ بِمَا كَانُوا۟ يَعْمَلُونَ

    As reward for what they used to do.

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