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Surah Hud, Verse 15

سورة هود، الآية ١٥

11:15 Juz 12 Hizb 23 Page 223 of the mushaf Meccan surah

Text of verse 11:15

مَن كَانَ يُرِيدُ ٱلْحَيَوٰةَ ٱلدُّنْيَا وَزِينَتَهَا نُوَفِّ إِلَيْهِمْ أَعْمَٰلَهُمْ فِيهَا وَهُمْ فِيهَا لَا يُبْخَسُونَ ۝١٥

Transliteration

man kāna yurīdu l-ḥayata l-dun'yā wazīnatahā nuwaffi ilayhim aʿmālahum fīhā wahum fīhā lā yub'khasūna

Translation

Whoever desires the life of this world and its adornments - We fully repay them for their deeds therein,553 and they therein will not be deprived.

Notes

[553] i.e., during worldly life.

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Verse 15 of Surah Hud (11:15), a Meccan surah, is in juz 12, on page 223 of the mushaf. Read it in Arabic with its transliteration, translations and tafsir, and listen to it recited by 73 reciters.

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Tafsir of verse 15

Al-Mukhtasar

Whoever desires the life of this world and its passing pleasures through what they do, and does not desire the Afterlife through their actions, Allah will give them the reward for their actions in this world: health, safety and ample provision. They will not be short-changed in the reward for their actions in any way.

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Other translations of verse 15

Those who seek the life of this world and its splendor, We will repay them in full in this life for their deeds, and nothing will be diminished from them therein.

Whosoever desires the life of the world and its glitter, to them We shall pay in full (the wages of) their deeds therein, and they will have no diminution therein.

Whoso desireth the life of the world and its pomp, We shall repay them their deeds herein, and therein they will not be wronged.

Those who desire the life of the present and its glitter,- to them we shall pay (the price of) their deeds therein,- without diminution.

Whoever desires this world's life and its finery, We will pay them in full their deeds therein, and they shall not be made to. suffer loss in respect of them.

Whoever is willing (to gain) the present life (Literally: the lowly life, i.e., the life of this world) and its adornment, We will pay them therein in full for their deeds and they shall not be depreciated (i.e., their deeds will not be depreciated) therein.

Verse 15 word by word

  1. مَن man Whoever [is]
  2. كَانَ kāna Whoever [is] ك و ن
  3. يُرِيدُ yurīdu desires ر و د
  4. ٱلْحَيَوٰةَ l-ḥayata the life ح ي ي
  5. ٱلدُّنْيَا l-dun'yā (of) the world د ن و
  6. وَزِينَتَهَا wazīnatahā and its adornments ز ي ن
  7. نُوَفِّ nuwaffi We will repay in full و ف ي
  8. إِلَيْهِمْ ilayhim to them
  9. أَعْمَٰلَهُمْ aʿmālahum (for) their deeds ع م ل
  10. فِيهَا fīhā therein
  11. وَهُمْ wahum and they
  12. فِيهَا fīhā in it
  13. لَا lā will not be lessened
  14. يُبْخَسُونَ yub'khasūna will not be lessened ب خ س

Verses related to verse 15

Cited by Ibn Kathir in his explanation of this verse

  • Al-Isra 17:18–21

    مَّن كَانَ يُرِيدُ ٱلْعَاجِلَةَ عَجَّلْنَا لَهُۥ فِيهَا مَا نَشَآءُ لِمَن نُّرِيدُ ثُمَّ جَعَلْنَا لَهُۥ جَهَنَّمَ يَصْلَىٰهَا مَذْمُومًا مَّدْحُورًا …

    Whoever should desire the immediate - We hasten for him from it what We will to whom We intend. Then We have made for him Hell, which he will [enter to] burn, censured and banished. …

  • Ash-Shuraa 42:20

    مَن كَانَ يُرِيدُ حَرْثَ ٱلْـَٔاخِرَةِ نَزِدْ لَهُۥ فِى حَرْثِهِۦ وَمَن كَانَ يُرِيدُ حَرْثَ ٱلدُّنْيَا نُؤْتِهِۦ مِنْهَا وَمَا لَهُۥ فِى ٱلْـَٔاخِرَةِ مِن نَّصِيبٍ

    Whoever desires the harvest of the Hereafter - We increase for him in his harvest [i.e., reward]. And whoever desires the harvest [i.e., benefits] of this world - We give him thereof, but there is not for him in the Hereafter any share.

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