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Surah As-Saffat, Verse 25

سورة الصافات، الآية ٢٥

37:25 Juz 23 Hizb 45 Page 447 of the mushaf Meccan surah

Text of verse 37:25

مَا لَكُمْ لَا تَنَاصَرُونَ ۝٢٥

Transliteration

mā lakum lā tanāṣarūna

Translation

[They will be asked], "What is [wrong] with you? Why do you not help each other?"

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Verse 25 of Surah As-Saffat (37:25), a Meccan surah, is in juz 23, on page 447 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 25

Al-Mukhtasar

And it will be said to them in rebuke, “What is the matter with you that you are not helping each other like you used to in the world, and you used to claim that your idols would help you?”

Tafsir of the whole Surah As-Saffat

Other translations of verse 25

[They will be asked], “What is the matter with you, that you no longer help one another?”

"What is the matter with you? Why do you not help one another (as you used to do in the world)?"

What aileth you that ye help not one another?

"'What is the matter with you that ye help not each other?'"

What is the matter with you that you do not help each other?

How is it that you do not vindicate one another?

Verse 25 word by word

  1. مَا mā What
  2. لَكُمْ lakum (is) for you
  3. لَا lā (Why) not
  4. تَنَاصَرُونَ tanāṣarūna you help one another ن ص ر

Hadiths that cite this verse

Weak Jami' at-Tirmidhi 3228

that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: "No caller invites to anything except that he is detained along with, on the Day of Resurrection, without parting from it, even if a man invites another man." Then he recited the saying of Allah, the Mighty and Sublime: 'But stop them, verily they are to be…

"‏ مَا مِنْ دَاعٍ دَعَا إِلَى شَيْءٍ إِلاَّ كَانَ مَوْقُوفًا يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ لاَزِمًا لَهُ لاَ يُفَارِقُهُ وَإِنْ دَعَا رَجُلٌ رَجُلاً ‏"‏ ‏.‏ ثُمَّ قَرَأَ قَوْلَ اللَّهِ ‏:‏ ‏‏(‏ وقِفُوهُمْ إِنَّهُمْ مَسْئُولُونَ *…

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Verses related to verse 25

Cited by Ibn Kathir in his explanation of this verse

  • Al-Isra 17:97

    وَمَن يَهْدِ ٱللَّهُ فَهُوَ ٱلْمُهْتَدِ وَمَن يُضْلِلْ فَلَن تَجِدَ لَهُمْ أَوْلِيَآءَ مِن دُونِهِۦ وَنَحْشُرُهُمْ يَوْمَ ٱلْقِيَٰمَةِ عَلَىٰ وُجُوهِهِمْ عُمْيًا وَبُكْمًا وَصُمًّا مَّأْوَىٰهُمْ جَهَنَّمُ كُلَّمَا خَبَتْ زِدْنَٰهُمْ سَعِيرًا

    And whoever Allāh guides - he is the [rightly] guided; and whoever He sends astray - you will never find for them protectors besides Him, and We will gather them on the Day of Resurrection [fallen] on their faces - blind, dumb and deaf. Their refuge is Hell; every time it subsides, We increase [for] them blazing fire.

Verses with similar wording

They share a sequence of words with this verse: useful for telling them apart when memorising.

  • As-Saffat 37:92

    مَا لَكُمْ لَا تَنطِقُونَ

    What is [wrong] with you that you do not speak?"

  • Nuh 71:13

    مَّا لَكُمْ لَا تَرْجُونَ لِلَّهِ وَقَارًا

    What is [the matter] with you that you do not attribute to Allāh [due] grandeur

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