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Surah Fussilat, Verse 20

سورة فصلت، الآية ٢٠

41:20 Juz 24 Hizb 48 Page 478 of the mushaf Meccan surah

Text of verse 41:20

حَتَّىٰٓ إِذَا مَا جَآءُوهَا شَهِدَ عَلَيْهِمْ سَمْعُهُمْ وَأَبْصَٰرُهُمْ وَجُلُودُهُم بِمَا كَانُوا۟ يَعْمَلُونَ ۝٢٠

Transliteration

ḥattā idhā mā jāūhā shahida ʿalayhim samʿuhum wa-abṣāruhum wajulūduhum bimā kānū yaʿmalūna

Translation

Until, when they reach it, their hearing and their eyes and their skins will testify against them of what they used to do.

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Verse 20 of Surah Fussilat (41:20), a Meccan surah, is in juz 24, on page 478 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

When they come to the hellfire they are driven towards and deny the actions they would do in the world, their ears, eyes and skins will testify to their sins and disbelief in the world.

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Other translations of verse 20

until when they reach it, their hearing, their sight and their skins will testify9 against them concerning what they used to do.

Notes

[9] On the Day of Judgment, the wicked will deny the evil deeds in their record of deeds - in an attempt to escape the punishment. They will be asked if they accept Allah, the angels, or even their own families and neighbors as witnesses, but they will refuse. So Allah will make their organs testify against them. [Ibn Kathīr]

Till, when they reach it (Hell-fire), their hearing (ears) and their eyes, and their skins will testify against them as to what they used to do.

Till, when they reach it, their ears and their eyes and their skins testify against them as to what they used to do.

At length, when they reach the (Fire), their hearing, their sight, and their skins will bear witness against them, as to (all) their deeds.

Until when they come to it, their ears and their eyes and their skins shall bear witness against them as to what they did.

Till, just when they come to it, their hearing, and their beholdings, (i.e., eyesight (s) and their skins testify against them concerning whatever they were doing.

Verse 20 word by word

  1. حَتَّىٰٓ ḥattā Until
  2. إِذَا idhā when
  3. مَا mā when
  4. جَآءُوهَا jāūhā they come to it ج ي أ
  5. شَهِدَ shahida (will) testify ش ه د
  6. عَلَيْهِمْ ʿalayhim against them
  7. سَمْعُهُمْ samʿuhum their hearing س م ع
  8. وَأَبْصَٰرُهُمْ wa-abṣāruhum and their sight ب ص ر
  9. وَجُلُودُهُم wajulūduhum and their skins ج ل د
  10. بِمَا bimā (as) to what
  11. كَانُوا۟ kānū they used to ك و ن
  12. يَعْمَلُونَ yaʿmalūna do ع م ل

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    جَزَآءًۢ بِمَا كَانُوا۟ يَعْمَلُونَ

    As reward for what they used to do.

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