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Surah As-Saffat, Verse 10

سورة الصافات، الآية ١٠

37:10 Juz 23 Hizb 45 Page 446 of the mushaf Meccan surah

Text of verse 37:10

إِلَّا مَنْ خَطِفَ ٱلْخَطْفَةَ فَأَتْبَعَهُۥ شِهَابٌ ثَاقِبٌ ۝١٠

Transliteration

illā man khaṭifa l-khaṭfata fa-atbaʿahu shihābun thāqibun

Translation

Except one who snatches [some words] by theft, but they are pursued by a burning flame, piercing [in brightness].

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Verse 10 of Surah As-Saffat (37:10), a Meccan surah, is in juz 23, on page 446 of the mushaf. Read it in Arabic with its transliteration, translations and tafsir, and listen to it recited by 73 reciters.

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Tafsir of verse 10

Al-Mukhtasar

Except for those satans who happen to quickly snatch something; a statement that the angels discuss among themselves which the people of earth have not yet received information of. A shooting star then goes after it and burns it. Sometimes, the satan is able to pass that information on to its companion before it is burnt by the shooting star, and it reaches the fortune-tellers, who tell a hundred lies with it.

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Other translations of verse 10

except who stealthily snatches away some words, he will be pursued by a piercing flame.

Except such as snatch away something by stealing, and they are pursued by a flaming fire of piercing brightness.

Save him who snatcheth a fragment, and there pursueth him a piercing flame.

Except such as snatch away something by stealth, and they are pursued by a flaming fire, of piercing brightness.

Except him who snatches off but once, then there follows him a brightly shining flame.

Except him who snatches a snatching (away); then a piercing flaming (meteor) follows him up.

Verse 10 word by word

  1. إِلَّا illā Except
  2. مَنْ man (him) who
  3. خَطِفَ khaṭifa snatches خ ط ف
  4. ٱلْخَطْفَةَ l-khaṭfata (by) theft خ ط ف
  5. فَأَتْبَعَهُۥ fa-atbaʿahu but follows him ت ب ع
  6. شِهَابٌ shihābun a burning flame ش ه ب
  7. ثَاقِبٌ thāqibun piercing ث ق ب

Verses related to verse 10

Cited by Ibn Kathir in his explanation of this verse

  • Al-Jinn 72:8–10

    وَأَنَّا لَمَسْنَا ٱلسَّمَآءَ فَوَجَدْنَٰهَا مُلِئَتْ حَرَسًا شَدِيدًا وَشُهُبًا …

    And we have sought [to reach] the heaven but found it filled with powerful guards and burning flames. …

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