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Surah Fussilat, Verse 23

سورة فصلت، الآية ٢٣

41:23 Juz 24 Hizb 48 Page 479 of the mushaf Meccan surah

Text of verse 41:23

وَذَٰلِكُمْ ظَنُّكُمُ ٱلَّذِى ظَنَنتُم بِرَبِّكُمْ أَرْدَىٰكُمْ فَأَصْبَحْتُم مِّنَ ٱلْخَٰسِرِينَ ۝٢٣

Transliteration

wadhālikum ẓannukumu alladhī ẓanantum birabbikum ardākum fa-aṣbaḥtum mina l-khāsirīna

Translation

And that was your assumption which you assumed about your Lord. It has brought you to ruin, and you have become among the losers."

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Verse 23 of Surah Fussilat (41:23), a Meccan surah, is in juz 24, on page 479 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 23

Al-Mukhtasar

And that very evil thought you thought up concerning your Lord, destroyed you, and so because of it, you became the very ones who lost in the world and the Hereafter.

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Other translations of verse 23

Such was your assumption that you entertained about your Lord that ruined you, so you became losers.”

And that thought of yours which you thought about your Lord, has brought you to destruction; and you have become (this Day) of those utterly lost!

That, your thought which ye did think about your Lord, hath ruined you; and ye find yourselves (this day) among the lost.

"But this thought of yours which ye did entertain concerning your Lord, hath brought you to destruction, and (now) have ye become of those utterly lost!"

And that was your (evil) thought which you entertained about your Lord that has tumbled you down into perdition, so are you become of the lost ones.

And that (Literally: those (s) (was) the surmise you surmised about your Lord; it has toppled you; so you have become among the losers."

Verse 23 word by word

  1. وَذَٰلِكُمْ wadhālikum And that
  2. ظَنُّكُمُ ẓannukumu (was) your assumption ظ ن ن
  3. ٱلَّذِى alladhī which
  4. ظَنَنتُم ẓanantum you assumed ظ ن ن
  5. بِرَبِّكُمْ birabbikum about your Lord ر ب ب
  6. أَرْدَىٰكُمْ ardākum It has ruined you ر د ي
  7. فَأَصْبَحْتُم fa-aṣbaḥtum and you have become ص ب ح
  8. مِّنَ mina of
  9. ٱلْخَٰسِرِينَ l-khāsirīna the losers خ س ر

Hadiths that cite this verse

Authentic Muttafaq ‘alayh (Bukhari and Muslim) Sahih al-Bukhari 4817

There gathered near the House (i.e. the Ka`ba) two Quraishi persons and a person from Thaqif (or two persons from Thaqif and one from Quraish), and all of them with very fat bellies but very little intelligence. One of them said, "Do you think that Allah hears what we say?" Another said, "He hears…

اجْتَمَعَ عِنْدَ الْبَيْتِ قُرَشِيَّانِ وَثَقَفِيٌّ ـ أَوْ ثَقَفِيَّانِ وَقُرَشِيٌّ ـ كَثِيرَةٌ شَحْمُ بُطُونِهِمْ قَلِيلَةٌ فِقْهُ قُلُوبِهِمْ فَقَالَ أَحَدُهُمْ أَتُرَوْنَ أَنَّ اللَّهَ يَسْمَعُ مَا نَقُولُ قَالَ…

Narrated by Abdullah ibn Mas‘ūd + 10 other versions

Authentic Muttafaq ‘alayh (Bukhari and Muslim) Jami' at-Tirmidhi 3249

"I was hiding beneath the covering of the Ka'bah, and three men came along - a man from the Quraish, and two of his brothers-in-law from Thaqif, or a man from Thaqif and two of his brothers-in-law from Quraish. Their bellies were fat, and they did not have much understanding. They said something…

‏ ‏‏(‏ ومَا كُنْتُمْ تَسْتَتِرُونَ أَنْ يَشْهَدَ عَلَيْكُمْ سَمْعُكُمْ وَلاَ أَبْصَارُكُمْ وَلاَ جُلُودُكُمْ ‏)‏ إِلَى قَوْلِهِ ‏:‏ ‏‏(‏أَصْبَحْتُمْ مِنَ الْخَاسِرِينَ ‏)‏ ‏

Narrated by Abdullah ibn Mas‘ūd + 10 other versions

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