سورة فاطر، الآية ٢١
وَلَا ٱلظِّلُّ وَلَا ٱلْحَرُورُ ٢١
walā l-ẓilu walā l-ḥarūru
Nor are the shade and the heat,1248
[1248] Of the sun or of a scorching wind.
Verse 21 of Surah Fatir (35:21), 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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And Paradise and the fire of hell are not the same in their effects, just as shade and hot winds are not the same.
nor the shade and the scorching wind9.
[9] It refers to Paradise and Hell.
Nor are (alike) the shade and the sun’s heat.
Nor is the shadow equal with the sun's full heat;
Nor are the (chilly) shade and the (genial) heat of the sun:
Nor the shade and the heat,
Nor the shade and the torrid heat.
أَوَمَن كَانَ مَيْتًا فَأَحْيَيْنَٰهُ وَجَعَلْنَا لَهُۥ نُورًا يَمْشِى بِهِۦ فِى ٱلنَّاسِ كَمَن مَّثَلُهُۥ فِى ٱلظُّلُمَٰتِ لَيْسَ بِخَارِجٍ مِّنْهَا كَذَٰلِكَ زُيِّنَ لِلْكَٰفِرِينَ مَا كَانُوا۟ يَعْمَلُونَ
And is one who was dead and We gave him life and made for him light by which to walk among the people like one who is in darkness, never to emerge therefrom? Thus it has been made pleasing to the disbelievers that which they were doing.
مَثَلُ ٱلْفَرِيقَيْنِ كَٱلْأَعْمَىٰ وَٱلْأَصَمِّ وَٱلْبَصِيرِ وَٱلسَّمِيعِ هَلْ يَسْتَوِيَانِ مَثَلًا أَفَلَا تَذَكَّرُونَ
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?
وَظِلٍّ مِّن يَحْمُومٍ …
And a shade of black smoke, …
