سورة الزمر، الآية ٤٠
مَن يَأْتِيهِ عَذَابٌ يُخْزِيهِ وَيَحِلُّ عَلَيْهِ عَذَابٌ مُّقِيمٌ ٤٠
man yatīhi ʿadhābun yukh'zīhi wayaḥillu ʿalayhi ʿadhābun muqīmun
To whom will come a torment disgracing him and on whom will descend an enduring punishment."
Verse 40 of Surah Az-Zumar (39:40), a Meccan surah, is in juz 24, on page 462 of the mushaf. Read it in Arabic with its transliteration, translations and tafsir, and listen to it recited by 72 reciters.
78 recitations by 72 reciters: pick one and it plays in the player.
Soon you will come to know who will be punished in this world in a way that disgraces and humiliates them, and upon whom an everlasting permanent punishment will come in the Hereafter.
who will receive a humiliating punishment, and upon whom will descend an everlasting punishment.”
"To whom comes a disgracing torment, and on whom descends an everlasting torment."
Who it is unto whom cometh a doom that will abase him, and on whom there falleth everlasting doom.
"Who it is to whom comes a Penalty of ignominy, and on whom descends a Penalty that abides."
Who it is to whom there shall come a punishment which will disgrace him and to whom will be due a lasting punishment.
To whom will come up a torment disgracing him; and upon him will alight a perpetual torment."
They share a sequence of words with this verse: useful for telling them apart when memorising.
فَسَوْفَ تَعْلَمُونَ مَن يَأْتِيهِ عَذَابٌ يُخْزِيهِ وَيَحِلُّ عَلَيْهِ عَذَابٌ مُّقِيمٌ
And you are going to know who will get a punishment that will disgrace him [on earth] and upon whom will descend an enduring punishment [in the Hereafter]."
وَيَٰقَوْمِ ٱعْمَلُوا۟ عَلَىٰ مَكَانَتِكُمْ إِنِّى عَٰمِلٌ سَوْفَ تَعْلَمُونَ مَن يَأْتِيهِ عَذَابٌ يُخْزِيهِ وَمَنْ هُوَ كَٰذِبٌ وَٱرْتَقِبُوٓا۟ إِنِّى مَعَكُمْ رَقِيبٌ
And O my people, work according to your position; indeed, I am working. You are going to know to whom will come a punishment that will disgrace him and who is a liar. So watch; indeed, I am with you a watcher, [awaiting the outcome]."
