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Surah Ash-Shuraa, Verse 30

سورة الشورى، الآية ٣٠

42:30 Juz 25 Hizb 49 Page 486 of the mushaf Meccan surah

Text of verse 42:30

وَمَآ أَصَٰبَكُم مِّن مُّصِيبَةٍ فَبِمَا كَسَبَتْ أَيْدِيكُمْ وَيَعْفُوا۟ عَن كَثِيرٍ ۝٣٠

Transliteration

wamā aṣābakum min muṣībatin fabimā kasabat aydīkum wayaʿfū ʿan kathīrin

Translation

And whatever strikes you of disaster - it is for what your hands have earned; but He pardons much.

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Verse 30 of Surah Ash-Shuraa (42:30), a Meccan surah, is in juz 25, on page 486 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 30

Al-Mukhtasar

Whatever difficulty afflicts you, O people, in yourselves and your wealth it is because of the sins that your hands earned. Allah overlooks many of them and does not take you to task for them.

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Other translations of verse 30

Whatever calamity befalls you is because of what your own hands have earned, and He overlooks much.

And whatever of misfortune befalls you, it is because of what your hands have earned. And He pardons much. (See the Qur’ân Verse 35:45).

Whatever of misfortune striketh you, it is what your right hands have earned. And He forgiveth much.

Whatever misfortune happens to you, is because on the things your hands have wrought, and for many (of them) He grants forgiveness.

And whatever affliction befalls you, it is on account of what your hands have wrought, and (yet) He pardons most (of your faults).

And whatever affliction afflicts you, then it is for what your hands have earned; and He is Clement towards much.

Verse 30 word by word

  1. وَمَآ wamā And whatever
  2. أَصَٰبَكُم aṣābakum befalls you ص و ب
  3. مِّن min of
  4. مُّصِيبَةٍ muṣībatin (the) misfortune ص و ب
  5. فَبِمَا fabimā (is because) of what
  6. كَسَبَتْ kasabat have earned ك س ب
  7. أَيْدِيكُمْ aydīkum your hands ي د ي
  8. وَيَعْفُوا۟ wayaʿfū But He pardons ع ف و
  9. عَن ʿan [from]
  10. كَثِيرٍ kathīrin much ك ث ر

Hadiths that cite this verse

Weak Jami' at-Tirmidhi 3252

"A Shaikh from Banu Murrah narrated to me, he said: 'I arrived in Al-Kufah and was informed about Bilal bin Abi Burdah so I said: "Indeed there is a lesson in him" so I went to him while he was imprisoned in his home, which he had built.' He said: 'After everything that had happened to him he had…

"‏ لاَ يُصِيبُ عَبْدًا نَكْبَةٌ فَمَا فَوْقَهَا أَوْ دُونَهَا إِلاَّ بِذَنْبٍ وَمَا يَعْفُو اللَّهُ عَنْهُ أَكْثَرُ ‏"‏ ‏.‏ قَالَ وَقَرَأََ ‏:‏ ‏‏(‏وما أَصَابَكُمْ مِنْ مُصِيبَةٍ فَبِمَا كَسَبَتْ أَيْدِيكُمْ وَيَعْفُو…

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Verses related to verse 30

Cited by Ibn Kathir in his explanation of this verse

  • Fatir 35:45

    وَلَوْ يُؤَاخِذُ ٱللَّهُ ٱلنَّاسَ بِمَا كَسَبُوا۟ مَا تَرَكَ عَلَىٰ ظَهْرِهَا مِن دَآبَّةٍ وَلَٰكِن يُؤَخِّرُهُمْ إِلَىٰٓ أَجَلٍ مُّسَمًّى فَإِذَا جَآءَ أَجَلُهُمْ فَإِنَّ ٱللَّهَ كَانَ بِعِبَادِهِۦ بَصِيرًۢا

    And if Allāh were to impose blame on the people for what they have earned, He would not leave upon it [i.e., the earth] any creature. But He defers them for a specified term. And when their time comes, then indeed Allāh has ever been, of His servants, Seeing.

  • Az-Zalzalah 99:7–8

    فَمَن يَعْمَلْ مِثْقَالَ ذَرَّةٍ خَيْرًا يَرَهُۥ …

    So whoever does an atom's weight of good will see it, …

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