Text of verse 40:49
وَقَالَ ٱلَّذِينَ فِى ٱلنَّارِ لِخَزَنَةِ جَهَنَّمَ ٱدْعُوا۟ رَبَّكُمْ يُخَفِّفْ عَنَّا يَوْمًا مِّنَ ٱلْعَذَابِ ٤٩
Transliteration
waqāla alladhīna fī l-nāri likhazanati jahannama id'ʿū rabbakum yukhaffif ʿannā yawman mina l-ʿadhābi
Translation
And those in the Fire will say to the keepers of Hell, "Supplicate your Lord to lighten for us a day from the punishment."
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Rachid Maach Nabil Radwan (Noor International) Muhammad Hamidullah
Isa García Noor International (España) Noor International (Latinoamérica) Julio Cortés
Salomo Keyzer
Abubakar Mahmoud Gumi
محمد جوناگڑھی
Bubenheim & Elias
Ali Muhsin Al-Barwani
Hamza Roberto Piccardo
মুহিউদ্দীন খান
Rowwad Tercüme Merkezi Şaban Piriş Ali Özek ve arkadaşları Elmalılı Hamdi Yazır
Kementerian Agama RI
Mahmud Muhammad Abduh
حسین تاجی گلهداری
Abdullah Muhammad Basmeih
Sherif Ahmeti
Məmmədəliyev & Bünyadov
Besim Korkut
馬堅
Ivan Hrbek
Ahsen Böre
三田了一
최영길
Abdul Hameed & Parappoor
Abdulaziz Guroalim Saromantang
Einar Berg
Józef Bielawski
Samir El-Hayek
George Grigore
Эльмир Кулиев
Knut Bernström
ஜான் டிரஸ்ட்
Якуб ибн Нугман
สมาคมนักเรียนเก่าอาหรับ ประเทศไทย
Муҳаммад Содиқ Муҳаммад Юсуф
Verse 49 of Surah Ghafir (40:49), a Meccan surah, is in juz 24, on page 472 of the mushaf. Read it in Arabic with its transliteration, translations and tafsir, and listen to it recited by 72 reciters.
Tafsir of verse 49
Al-Mukhtasar
Those being punished in the fire from the followers and leaders will say to the keepers of hell, once they have lost hope in leaving the fire and returning to the worldly life to repent: “Call upon your Lord to lessen from us one day of this everlasting punishment”.
Tafsir of the whole Surah Ghafir
Other translations of verse 49
Those who are in the Fire will say to the keepers of Hell, “Pray to your Lord to lighten for us the punishment for just one day.”
And those in the Fire will say to the keepers (angels) of Hell: "Call upon your Lord to lighten for us the torment for a day!"
And those in the Fire say unto the guards of hell: Entreat your Lord that He relieve us of a day of the torment.
Those in the Fire will say to the Keepers of Hell: "Pray to your Lord to lighten us the Penalty for a day (at least)!"
And those who are in the fire shall say to the keepers of hell: Call upon your Lord that He may lighten to us one day of the punishment.
And the ones who are in the Fire will say to the keepers of Hell, "Invoke your Lord to lighten for us one day of the torment!"
Verse 49 word by word
وَقَالَ
waqāla And will say ق و ل
ٱلَّذِينَ
alladhīna those
فِى
fī in
ٱلنَّارِ
l-nāri the Fire ن و ر
لِخَزَنَةِ
likhazanati to (the) keepers خ ز ن
جَهَنَّمَ
jahannama (of) Hell
ٱدْعُوا۟
id'ʿū Call د ع و
رَبَّكُمْ
rabbakum your Lord ر ب ب
يُخَفِّفْ
yukhaffif (to) lighten خ ف ف
عَنَّا
ʿannā for us
يَوْمًا
yawman a day ي و م
مِّنَ
mina of
ٱلْعَذَابِ
l-ʿadhābi the punishment ع ذ ب
Verses related to verse 49
Cited by Ibn Kathir in his explanation of this verse
Al-Mu’minun 23:108
قَالَ ٱخْسَـُٔوا۟ فِيهَا وَلَا تُكَلِّمُونِ
He will say, "Remain despised therein and do not speak to Me.
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Surah Ghafir
سورة غافر
85 verses · Meccan