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Surah As-Saffat, Verse 48

سورة الصافات، الآية ٤٨

37:48 Juz 23 Hizb 45 Page 447 of the mushaf Meccan surah

Text of verse 37:48

وَعِندَهُمْ قَٰصِرَٰتُ ٱلطَّرْفِ عِينٌ ۝٤٨

Transliteration

waʿindahum qāṣirātu l-ṭarfi ʿīnun

Translation

And with them will be women limiting [their] glances,1292 with large, [beautiful] eyes,

Notes

[1292] i.e., chaste and modest, looking only at their mates.

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Verse 48 of Surah As-Saffat (37:48), 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 48

Al-Mukhtasar

In Paradise, they will also have chaste wives with beautiful eyes, who will not longingly look towards anyone other than their husbands.

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Other translations of verse 48

and with them will be maidens of modest gaze10 and beautiful eyes,

Notes

[10] i.e., chaste and bashful, looking only at their mates.

And beside them will be Qâsirât-at-Tarf [chaste females (wives), restraining their glances (desiring none except their husbands)], with wide and beautiful eyes.4

Notes

[4] (V.37:48) See the footnote of (V.29:64).

And with them are those of modest gaze, with lovely eyes,

And besides them will be chaste women, restraining their glances, with big eyes (of wonder and beauty).

And with them shall be those who restrain the eyes, having beautiful eyes;

And in their presence are wide-eyed (maidens), restraining their glances.

Verse 48 word by word

  1. وَعِندَهُمْ waʿindahum And with them ع ن د
  2. قَٰصِرَٰتُ qāṣirātu (will be) companions of modest gaze ق ص ر
  3. ٱلطَّرْفِ l-ṭarfi (will be) companions of modest gaze ط ر ف
  4. عِينٌ ʿīnun (having) beautiful eyes ع ي ن

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  • Yusuf 12:32

    قَالَتْ فَذَٰلِكُنَّ ٱلَّذِى لُمْتُنَّنِى فِيهِ وَلَقَدْ رَٰوَدتُّهُۥ عَن نَّفْسِهِۦ فَٱسْتَعْصَمَ وَلَئِن لَّمْ يَفْعَلْ مَآ ءَامُرُهُۥ لَيُسْجَنَنَّ وَلَيَكُونًا مِّنَ ٱلصَّٰغِرِينَ

    She said, "That is the one about whom you blamed me. And I certainly sought to seduce him, but he firmly refused; and if he will not do what I order him, he will surely be imprisoned and will be of those debased."

  • Ar-Rahman 55:70

    فِيهِنَّ خَيْرَٰتٌ حِسَانٌ

    In them are good and beautiful women -

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  • Sad 38:52

    وَعِندَهُمْ قَٰصِرَٰتُ ٱلطَّرْفِ أَتْرَابٌ

    And with them will be women limiting [their] glances and of equal age.

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