سورة الصافات، الآية ١٣٥
إِلَّا عَجُوزًا فِى ٱلْغَٰبِرِينَ ١٣٥
illā ʿajūzan fī l-ghābirīna
Except an old woman [i.e., his wife] among those who remained [with the evildoers].
Verse 135 of Surah As-Saffat (37:135), a Meccan surah, is in juz 23, on page 451 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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Except for his wife, because she was a woman whom the punishment of her people included within it, due to her being a disbeliever like them.
except an old woman29 who was among those who stayed behind.
[29] Lot’s wife, who was not a believer.
Except an old woman (his wife) who was among those who remained behind.
Save an old woman among those who stayed behind;
Except an old woman who was among those who lagged behind:
Except an old woman (who was) amongst those who tarried.
Except an old woman among the laggards;
They share a sequence of words with this verse: useful for telling them apart when memorising.
إِلَّا عَجُوزًا فِى ٱلْغَٰبِرِينَ
Except an old woman among those who remained behind.
