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Surah As-Saffat, Verse 20

سورة الصافات، الآية ٢٠

37:20 Juz 23 Hizb 45 Page 446 of the mushaf Meccan surah

Text of verse 37:20

وَقَالُوا۟ يَٰوَيْلَنَا هَٰذَا يَوْمُ ٱلدِّينِ ۝٢٠

Transliteration

waqālū yāwaylanā hādhā yawmu l-dīni

Translation

They will say, "O woe to us! This is the Day of Recompense."

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Verse 20 of Surah As-Saffat (37:20), 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 20

Al-Mukhtasar

The idolaters who reject the resurrection say, “May we be doomed! This is the Day of Requital on which Allah will requite His servants for whatever deeds they sent forth in their worldly life!”

Tafsir of the whole Surah As-Saffat

Other translations of verse 20

They will say, “Woe to us! This is the Day of Judgment!”

They will say: "Woe to us! This is the Day of Recompense!"

And say: Ah, woe for us! This is the Day of Judgment.

They will say, "Ah! Woe to us! This is the Day of Judgment!"

And they shall say: O woe to us! this is the day of requital.

And they say, "oh woe to us! This is the Day of Doom." (Or: Judgment; Religion)

Verse 20 word by word

  1. وَقَالُوا۟ waqālū And they will say ق و ل
  2. يَٰوَيْلَنَا yāwaylanā O woe to us
  3. هَٰذَا hādhā This
  4. يَوْمُ yawmu (is the) Day ي و م
  5. ٱلدِّينِ l-dīni (of) the Recompense د ي ن

Verses related to verse 20

Cited by Ibn Kathir in his explanation of this verse

  • An-Naml 27:87

    وَيَوْمَ يُنفَخُ فِى ٱلصُّورِ فَفَزِعَ مَن فِى ٱلسَّمَٰوَٰتِ وَمَن فِى ٱلْأَرْضِ إِلَّا مَن شَآءَ ٱللَّهُ وَكُلٌّ أَتَوْهُ دَٰخِرِينَ

    And [warn of] the Day the Horn will be blown, and whoever is in the heavens and whoever is on the earth will be terrified except whom Allāh wills. And all will come to Him humbled.

  • Ghafir 40:60

    وَقَالَ رَبُّكُمُ ٱدْعُونِىٓ أَسْتَجِبْ لَكُمْ إِنَّ ٱلَّذِينَ يَسْتَكْبِرُونَ عَنْ عِبَادَتِى سَيَدْخُلُونَ جَهَنَّمَ دَاخِرِينَ

    And your Lord says, "Call upon Me; I will respond to you." Indeed, those who disdain My worship will enter Hell [rendered] contemptible.

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