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Surah At-Tawbah, Verse 53

سورة التوبة، الآية ٥٣

9:53 Juz 10 Hizb 20 Page 195 of the mushaf Medinan surah

Text of verse 9:53

قُلْ أَنفِقُوا۟ طَوْعًا أَوْ كَرْهًا لَّن يُتَقَبَّلَ مِنكُمْ إِنَّكُمْ كُنتُمْ قَوْمًا فَٰسِقِينَ ۝٥٣

Transliteration

qul anfiqū ṭawʿan aw karhan lan yutaqabbala minkum innakum kuntum qawman fāsiqīna

Translation

Say, "Spend willingly or unwillingly; never will it be accepted from you. Indeed, you have been a defiantly disobedient people."

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Verse 53 of Surah At-Tawbah (9:53), a Medinan surah, is in juz 10, on page 195 of the mushaf. Read it in Arabic with its transliteration, translations and tafsir, and listen to it recited by 72 reciters.

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Tafsir of verse 53

Al-Mukhtasar

Tell them O Messenger, : 'Spend of your wealth willingly or unwillingly, for it will not be accepted from you because of your disbelief and disloyalty to Allah.'

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Other translations of verse 53

Say, “Whether you spend willingly or unwillingly, it will never be accepted from you, for you have been a wicked people.”

Say: "Spend (in Allâh’s Cause) willingly or unwillingly, it will not be accepted from you. Verily, you are ever a people who are Fâsiqûn (rebellious, disobedient to Allâh)."

Say: Pay (your contribution), willingly or unwillingly, it will not be accepted from you. Lo! ye were ever froward folk.

Say: "Spend (for the cause) willingly or unwillingly: not from you will it be accepted: for ye are indeed a people rebellious and wicked."

Say: Spend willingly or unwillingly, it shall not be accepted from you; surely you are a transgressing people.

Say, "Expend, willingly or unwillingly, it will never be (graciously) accepted from you; surely you have been an immoral people.".

Verse 53 word by word

  1. قُلْ qul Say ق و ل
  2. أَنفِقُوا۟ anfiqū Spend ن ف ق
  3. طَوْعًا ṭawʿan willingly ط و ع
  4. أَوْ aw or
  5. كَرْهًا karhan unwillingly ك ر ه
  6. لَّن lan never
  7. يُتَقَبَّلَ yutaqabbala will be accepted ق ب ل
  8. مِنكُمْ minkum from you
  9. إِنَّكُمْ innakum Indeed, you
  10. كُنتُمْ kuntum [you] are ك و ن
  11. قَوْمًا qawman a people ق و م
  12. فَٰسِقِينَ fāsiqīna defiantly disobedient ف س ق

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