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Surah Az-Zumar, Verse 72

سورة الزمر، الآية ٧٢

39:72 Juz 24 Hizb 47 Page 466 of the mushaf Meccan surah

Text of verse 39:72

قِيلَ ٱدْخُلُوٓا۟ أَبْوَٰبَ جَهَنَّمَ خَٰلِدِينَ فِيهَا فَبِئْسَ مَثْوَى ٱلْمُتَكَبِّرِينَ ۝٧٢

Transliteration

qīla ud'khulū abwāba jahannama khālidīna fīhā fabi'sa mathwā l-mutakabirīna

Translation

[To them] it will be said, "Enter the gates of Hell to abide eternally therein, and wretched is the residence of the arrogant."

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Verse 72 of Surah Az-Zumar (39:72), a Meccan surah, is in juz 24, on page 466 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 72

Al-Mukhtasar

It will be said to them, to further humiliate them and so they may lose all hope in Allah's mercy and ever coming out of the fire: Enter the doors of fire to remain therein forever. How terrible and bad is the place of those who were proud and arrogant against the truth.

Tafsir of the whole Surah Az-Zumar

Other translations of verse 72

It will be said, “Enter the gates of Hell, abiding therein forever.” What a terrible abode for the arrogant!

It will be said (to them): "Enter you the gates of Hell, to abide therein. And (indeed) what an evil abode of the arrogant!"

It is said (unto them): Enter ye the gates of hell to dwell therein. Thus hapless is the journey's end of the scorners.

(To them) will be said: "Enter ye the gates of Hell, to dwell therein: and evil is (this) Abode of the Arrogant!"

It shall be said: Enter the gates of hell to abide therein; so evil is the abode of the proud.

It will be said, "Enter the gates of Hell eternally (abiding) therein; miserable then is the lodging of the proud!"

Verse 72 word by word

  1. قِيلَ qīla It will be said ق و ل
  2. ٱدْخُلُوٓا۟ ud'khulū Enter د خ ل
  3. أَبْوَٰبَ abwāba (the) gates ب و ب
  4. جَهَنَّمَ jahannama (of) Hell
  5. خَٰلِدِينَ khālidīna (to) abide eternally خ ل د
  6. فِيهَا fīhā therein
  7. فَبِئْسَ fabi'sa and wretched is ب أ س
  8. مَثْوَى mathwā (the) abode ث و ي
  9. ٱلْمُتَكَبِّرِينَ l-mutakabirīna (of) the arrogant ك ب ر

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  • Ghafir 40:76

    ٱدْخُلُوٓا۟ أَبْوَٰبَ جَهَنَّمَ خَٰلِدِينَ فِيهَا فَبِئْسَ مَثْوَى ٱلْمُتَكَبِّرِينَ

    Enter the gates of Hell to abide eternally therein, and wretched is the residence of the arrogant."

  • An-Nahl 16:29

    فَٱدْخُلُوٓا۟ أَبْوَٰبَ جَهَنَّمَ خَٰلِدِينَ فِيهَا فَلَبِئْسَ مَثْوَى ٱلْمُتَكَبِّرِينَ

    So enter the gates of Hell to abide eternally therein, and how wretched is the residence of the arrogant.

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