Text of verse 81:8
وَإِذَا ٱلْمَوْءُۥدَةُ سُئِلَتْ ٨
Transliteration
wa-idhā l-mawūdatu su-ilat
Translation
And when the girl [who was] buried alive is asked
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Mahmoud Khalil Al-Hussary
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Surah At-Takwir, Verse 8
سورة التكوير، الآية ٨
Verse 8 of Surah At-Takwir (81:8), a Meccan surah, is in juz 30, on page 586 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
When the girl buried alive is asked by Allah.
Other translations of verse 8
and when the baby girl buried alive3 is asked,
Notes
[3] As the pagan Arabs used to do for fear of shame or poverty. The Qur’an condemned this practice. See 16:58-59.
And when the female (infant) buried alive (as the pagan Arabs used to do) is questioned:2
Notes
[2] (V.81:8) Narrated Al-Mughîrah bin Shu‘bah رضي الله عنه: The Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم said, "Allâh has forbidden for you: (1) to be undutiful to your mothers, (2) to bury your daughters alive, (3) not to pay the rights of the others (e.g., charity), and (4) to beg of men (i.e., begging). And Allâh hates for you: (1) sinful and useless talk like backbiting, or that you talk too much about others, (2) to ask too many questions (in disputed religious matters), and (3) to waste the wealth (by extravagance with lack of wisdom and thinking)." (Sahih Al-Bukhari, Vol.3, Hadith No.591).
And when the girl-child that was buried alive is asked
When the female (infant), buried alive, is questioned -
And when the female infant buried alive is asked
And when the female infant buried alive will be asked.
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Hadiths that cite this verse
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Sahih Muslim 1442b
I was about to forbid sexual intercourse during the breastfeeding period until I considered that the Romans and the Persians do it without any harm done to their children thereby
Judhāmah bint Wahb, sister of ‘Ukkāshah, reported: I was there when the Messenger of Allah (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him) said to some people: "I was about to forbid sexual intercourse during the breastfeeding period until I considered that the Romans and the Persians do it without…
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