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Surah As-Saffat, Verse 138

سورة الصافات، الآية ١٣٨

37:138 Juz 23 Hizb 45 Page 451 of the mushaf Meccan surah

Text of verse 37:138

وَبِٱلَّيْلِ أَفَلَا تَعْقِلُونَ ۝١٣٨

Transliteration

wabi-al-layli afalā taʿqilūna

Translation

And at night. Then will you not use reason?

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Verse 138 of Surah As-Saffat (37:138), 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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Tafsir of verse 138

Al-Mukhtasar

And likewise, you also pass by them at night. So do you not understand and take heed from the outcome of these people after they rejected, disbelieved and committed indecency, indecent behaviour, immorality, immoral behaviour, sexual indecency, sexual immortality which was unprecedented?

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Other translations of verse 138

and by night. Do you still not understand?

And at night; will you not then reflect?

And at night-time; have ye then no sense?

And by night: will ye not understand?

And at night; do you not then understand?

And by night; Will you not then consider?

Verse 138 word by word

  1. وَبِٱلَّيْلِ wabi-al-layli And at night ل ي ل
  2. أَفَلَا afalā Then will not
  3. تَعْقِلُونَ taʿqilūna you use reason ع ق ل

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