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Surah As-Saffat, Verse 97

سورة الصافات، الآية ٩٧

37:97 Juz 23 Hizb 45 Page 449 of the mushaf Meccan surah

Text of verse 37:97

قَالُوا۟ ٱبْنُوا۟ لَهُۥ بُنْيَٰنًا فَأَلْقُوهُ فِى ٱلْجَحِيمِ ۝٩٧

Transliteration

qālū ib'nū lahu bun'yānan fa-alqūhu fī l-jaḥīmi

Translation

They said, "Construct for him a structure [i.e., furnace] and throw him into the burning fire."

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Verse 97 of Surah As-Saffat (37:97), a Meccan surah, is in juz 23, on page 449 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 97

Al-Mukhtasar

When they became speechless to his clear reasoning they resorted to violence, and consulted with each other about what they should do with Abraham. They said, “Build a structure from him, fill it with firewood and set it on fire, then throw him into it.”

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Other translations of verse 97

They said, “Build a pyre for him and throw him into the blazing fire.”

They said: "Build for him a building (it is said that the building was like a furnace) and throw him into the blazing fire!"

They said: Build for him a building and fling him in the red-hotfire.

They said, "Build him a furnace, and throw him into the blazing fire!"

They said: Build for him a furnace, then cast him into the burning fire.

They said, "Build him a structure, (and) then cast him in the Hell-Fire."

Verse 97 word by word

قَالُوا۟ qālū They said ق و ل
ٱبْنُوا۟ ib'nū Build ب ن ي
لَهُۥ lahu for him
بُنْيَٰنًا bun'yānan a structure ب ن ي
فَأَلْقُوهُ fa-alqūhu and throw him ل ق ي
فِى fī into
ٱلْجَحِيمِ l-jaḥīmi the blazing Fire ج ح م

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