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Surah Ash-Shams, Verse 8

سورة الشمس، الآية ٨

91:8 Juz 30 Hizb 60 Page 595 of the mushaf Meccan surah

Text of verse 91:8

فَأَلْهَمَهَا فُجُورَهَا وَتَقْوَىٰهَا ۝٨

Transliteration

fa-alhamahā fujūrahā wataqwāhā

Translation

And inspired it [with discernment of] its wickedness and its righteousness,

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Verse 8 of Surah Ash-Shams (91:8), a Meccan surah, is in juz 30, on page 595 of the mushaf. Read it in Arabic with its transliteration, translations and tafsir, and listen to it recited by 74 reciters.

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Tafsir of verse 8

Al-Mukhtasar

Then He made it understand - without teaching it - what was evil so it could be abstained from, and what was good so it could be implemented.

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Other translations of verse 8

then inspired it [to know] its wickedness and righteousness,

Then He showed him what is wrong for him and what is right for him.

And inspired it (with conscience of) what is wrong for it and (what is) right for it.

And its enlightenment as to its wrong and its right;-

Then He inspired it to understand what is right and wrong for it;

So He inspired it to its impiety and piety!

Verse 8 word by word

فَأَلْهَمَهَا fa-alhamahā And He inspired it ل ه م
فُجُورَهَا fujūrahā (to distinguish) its wickedness ف ج ر
وَتَقْوَىٰهَا wataqwāhā and its righteousness و ق ي

Hadiths that cite this verse

Authentic Sahih Muslim 2650

What is your view, what the people do today in the world, and strive for, is it something decreed for them or preordained for them or will their fate in the Hereafter be deterrained by the fact that their Prophets brought them teaching which they did not act upon? I said: Of course, it is something…

أَرَأَيْتَ مَا يَعْمَلُ النَّاسُ الْيَوْمَ وَيَكْدَحُونَ فِيهِ أَشَىْءٌ قُضِيَ عَلَيْهِمْ وَمَضَى عَلَيْهِمْ مِنْ قَدَرِ مَا سَبَقَ أَوْ فِيمَا يُسْتَقْبَلُونَ بِهِ مِمَّا أَتَاهُمْ بِهِ نَبِيُّهُمْ وَثَبَتَتِ…

Narrated by Imrān ibn Husayn + 1 other version

Other hadiths (1)

Musnad Ahmad 19089

Verses related to verse 8

Cited by Ibn Kathir in his explanation of this verse

Al-A’la 87:14–15
قَدْ أَفْلَحَ مَن تَزَكَّىٰ …

He has certainly succeeded who purifies himself …

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