Text of verse 37:40
إِلَّا عِبَادَ ٱللَّهِ ٱلْمُخْلَصِينَ ٤٠
Transliteration
illā ʿibāda l-lahi l-mukh'laṣīna
Translation
But not the chosen servants of Allāh.
Translation in another language
Mahmoud Khalil Al-Hussary
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Surah As-Saffat, Verse 40
سورة الصافات، الآية ٤٠
Verse 40 of Surah As-Saffat (37:40), 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 40
Al-Mukhtasar
However, the believing servants of Allah whom Allah chose for His worship, and they sincerely devoted worship to Him, will be in a place of safety from this punishment.
Other translations of verse 40
except the chosen slaves of Allah.
Save the chosen slaves of Allâh (i.e. the true believers of Islâmic Monotheism).
Save single-minded slaves of Allah;
But the sincere (and devoted) Servants of Allah,-
Save the servants of Allah, the purified ones.
Except for the most faithful bondmen of Allah.
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Verses related to verse 40
Cited by Ibn Kathir in his explanation of this verse
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Al-’Asr 103:1–3
وَٱلْعَصْرِ …
By time, …
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At-Tin 95:4–6
لَقَدْ خَلَقْنَا ٱلْإِنسَٰنَ فِىٓ أَحْسَنِ تَقْوِيمٍ …
We have certainly created man in the best of stature; …
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Maryam 19:71–72
وَإِن مِّنكُمْ إِلَّا وَارِدُهَا كَانَ عَلَىٰ رَبِّكَ حَتْمًا مَّقْضِيًّا …
And there is none of you except he will come to it. This is upon your Lord an inevitability decreed. …
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Al-Muddaththir 74:38–39
كُلُّ نَفْسٍۭ بِمَا كَسَبَتْ رَهِينَةٌ …
Every soul, for what it has earned, will be retained …
Verses with similar wording
They share a sequence of words with this verse: useful for telling them apart when memorising.
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As-Saffat 37:74
إِلَّا عِبَادَ ٱللَّهِ ٱلْمُخْلَصِينَ
But not the chosen servants of Allāh.
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As-Saffat 37:128
إِلَّا عِبَادَ ٱللَّهِ ٱلْمُخْلَصِينَ
Except the chosen servants of Allāh.
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As-Saffat 37:160
إِلَّا عِبَادَ ٱللَّهِ ٱلْمُخْلَصِينَ
Except the chosen servants of Allāh [who do not share in that sin].
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As-Saffat 37:169
لَكُنَّا عِبَادَ ٱللَّهِ ٱلْمُخْلَصِينَ
We would have been the chosen servants of Allāh."