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Surah At-Tur, Verse 20

سورة الطور، الآية ٢٠

52:20 Juz 27 Hizb 53 Page 524 of the mushaf Meccan surah

Text of verse 52:20

مُتَّكِـِٔينَ عَلَىٰ سُرُرٍ مَّصْفُوفَةٍ وَزَوَّجْنَٰهُم بِحُورٍ عِينٍ ۝٢٠

Transliteration

muttakiīna ʿalā sururin maṣfūfatin wazawwajnāhum biḥūrin ʿīnin

Translation

They will be reclining on thrones lined up, and We will marry them to fair women with large, [beautiful] eyes.

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Verse 20 of Surah At-Tur (52:20), a Meccan surah, is in juz 27, on page 524 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 20

Al-Mukhtasar

Reclining on adorned thrones which have been lined up, and I will marry them to fair women with beautiful wide eyes.

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Other translations of verse 20

reclining on couches all lined up”. And We will marry them to houris with wide beautiful eyes.

They will recline (with ease) on thrones arranged in ranks. And We shall marry them to Hûr: (female, fair ones) with wide lovely eyes.4

Notes

[4] (V.52:20) Hûr. Very fair females created by Allah as such, not from the offspring of Adam عليه السلام with intense black irises of their eyes and intense white scleras. See the footnote of (V.44:54)

Reclining on ranged couches. And we wed them unto fair ones with wide, lovely eyes.

They will recline (with ease) on Thrones (of dignity) arranged in ranks; and We shall join them to Companions, with beautiful big and lustrous eyes.

Reclining on thrones set in lines, and We will unite them to large-eyed beautiful ones.

Reclining upon ranged settees. And We will marry them to wide-eyed huras.

Verse 20 word by word

  1. مُتَّكِـِٔينَ muttakiīna Reclining و ك أ
  2. عَلَىٰ ʿalā on
  3. سُرُرٍ sururin thrones س ر ر
  4. مَّصْفُوفَةٍ maṣfūfatin lined up ص ف ف
  5. وَزَوَّجْنَٰهُم wazawwajnāhum and We will marry them ز و ج
  6. بِحُورٍ biḥūrin to fair ones ح و ر
  7. عِينٍ ʿīnin (with) large eyes ع ي ن

Verses related to verse 20

Cited by Ibn Kathir in his explanation of this verse

  • As-Saffat 37:44

    عَلَىٰ سُرُرٍ مُّتَقَٰبِلِينَ

    On thrones facing one another.

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  • Ad-Dukhan 44:54

    كَذَٰلِكَ وَزَوَّجْنَٰهُم بِحُورٍ عِينٍ

    Thus. And We will marry them to fair women with large, [beautiful] eyes.

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