سورة الصافات، الآية ١٦٤
وَمَا مِنَّآ إِلَّا لَهُۥ مَقَامٌ مَّعْلُومٌ ١٦٤
wamā minnā illā lahu maqāmun maʿlūmun
[The angels say],1310 "There is not among us any except that he has a known position.1311
[1310] Refuting what the disbelievers had said about them.
[1311] For worship. Or "an assigned task" to perform.
Verse 164 of Surah As-Saffat (37:164), a Meccan surah, is in juz 23, on page 452 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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And the angels said, stating their servitude to Allah and their being free of what the idolaters claimed: “There is nobody amongst us except that he has a known position in Allah’s worship and obedience.
[The angels say]40, “There is none among us but has a known station41:
[40] Refuting the disbelievers’ false claims about them.
[41] In worshiping Allah and obeying Him in our assigned tasks.
And there is not one of us (angels) but has his known place (or position);
There is not one of us but hath his known position.
(Those ranged in ranks say): "Not one of us but has a place appointed;
And there is none of us but has an assigned place,
And in no way is there one of us, (i.e., the angels) except that he has a known station,
