Text of verse 35:20
وَلَا ٱلظُّلُمَٰتُ وَلَا ٱلنُّورُ ٢٠
Transliteration
walā l-ẓulumātu walā l-nūru
Translation
Nor are the darknesses and the light,
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Mahmoud Khalil Al-Hussary
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Surah Fatir, Verse 20
سورة فاطر، الآية ٢٠
Verse 20 of Surah Fatir (35:20), a Meccan surah, is in juz 22, on page 437 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
And disbelief and faith are not the same, just as darkness and light are not the same.
Other translations of verse 20
nor are the depths of darkness and the light8,
Notes
[8] It refers to belief and disbelief.
Nor are (alike) darkness (disbelief) and light (Belief in Islâmic Monotheism).
Nor is darkness (tantamount to) light;
Nor are the depths of Darkness and the Light;
Nor the darkness and the light,
Neither the darkness (es) and the light.
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The example of the two parties is like the blind and deaf, and the seeing and hearing. Are they equal in comparison? Then, will you not remember?
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