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Surah Luqman, Verse 28

سورة لقمان، الآية ٢٨

31:28 Juz 21 Hizb 42 Page 413 of the mushaf Meccan surah

Text of verse 31:28

مَّا خَلْقُكُمْ وَلَا بَعْثُكُمْ إِلَّا كَنَفْسٍ وَٰحِدَةٍ إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ سَمِيعٌۢ بَصِيرٌ ۝٢٨

Transliteration

mā khalqukum walā baʿthukum illā kanafsin wāḥidatin inna l-laha samīʿun baṣīrun

Translation

Your creation and your resurrection will not be but as that of a single soul.1166 Indeed, Allāh is Hearing and Seeing.

Notes

[1166] The re-creation and resurrection of one or of all is accomplished with equal ease by Allāh (subḥānahu wa taʿālā).

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Verse 28 of Surah Luqman (31:28), a Meccan surah, is in juz 21, on page 413 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 28

Al-Mukhtasar

O people! Your creation and your resurrection for accountability and requital on the Day of Judgement, is as easy as creating and resurrecting just one soul. Indeed, Allah hears everything, hearing one sound does not preoccupy Him from hearing another; He also sees everything, seeing one thing does not preoccupy Him from hearing another either. And likewise, creating something and resurrecting it does not preoccupy Him from creating and resurrecting another.

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Other translations of verse 28

Your creation and resurrection is only like that of a single soul10. Indeed, Allah is All-Hearing, All Seeing.

Notes

[10] The creation and resurrection of all of you are as easy to Allah as that of a single soul.

The creation of you all and the resurrection of you all are only as (the creation and resurrection of) a single person. Verily, Allâh is All-Hearer, All-Seer.

Your creation and your raising (from the dead) are only as (the creation and the raising of) a single soul. Lo! Allah is Hearer, Knower.

And your creation or your resurrection is in no wise but as an individual soul: for Allah is He Who hears and sees (all things).

Neither your creation nor your raising is anything but as a single soul; surely Allah is Hearing, Seeing.

In no way is your creation or your rising up anything except as that of a single self; surely Allah is Ever-Hearing, Ever-Beholding.

Verse 28 word by word

  1. مَّا mā Not
  2. خَلْقُكُمْ khalqukum (is) your creation خ ل ق
  3. وَلَا walā and not
  4. بَعْثُكُمْ baʿthukum your resurrection ب ع ث
  5. إِلَّا illā but
  6. كَنَفْسٍ kanafsin as a soul ن ف س
  7. وَٰحِدَةٍ wāḥidatin single و ح د
  8. إِنَّ inna Indeed
  9. ٱللَّهَ l-laha Allah
  10. سَمِيعٌۢ samīʿun (is) All-Hearer س م ع
  11. بَصِيرٌ baṣīrun All-Seer ب ص ر

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  • Ya-Sin 36:82

    إِنَّمَآ أَمْرُهُۥٓ إِذَآ أَرَادَ شَيْـًٔا أَن يَقُولَ لَهُۥ كُن فَيَكُونُ

    His command is only when He intends a thing that He says to it, "Be," and it is.

  • Al-Qamar 54:50

    وَمَآ أَمْرُنَآ إِلَّا وَٰحِدَةٌ كَلَمْحٍۭ بِٱلْبَصَرِ

    And Our command is but one, like a glance of the eye.

  • An-Nazi’at 79:13–14

    فَإِنَّمَا هِىَ زَجْرَةٌ وَٰحِدَةٌ …

    Indeed, it will be but one shout, …

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  • Al-Hajj 22:75

    ٱللَّهُ يَصْطَفِى مِنَ ٱلْمَلَٰٓئِكَةِ رُسُلًا وَمِنَ ٱلنَّاسِ إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ سَمِيعٌۢ بَصِيرٌ

    Allāh chooses from the angels messengers and from the people. Indeed, Allāh is Hearing and Seeing.

  • Al-Mujadila 58:1

    قَدْ سَمِعَ ٱللَّهُ قَوْلَ ٱلَّتِى تُجَٰدِلُكَ فِى زَوْجِهَا وَتَشْتَكِىٓ إِلَى ٱللَّهِ وَٱللَّهُ يَسْمَعُ تَحَاوُرَكُمَآ إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ سَمِيعٌۢ بَصِيرٌ

    Certainly has Allāh heard the speech of the one who argues [i.e., pleads] with you, [O Muḥammad], concerning her husband and directs her complaint to Allāh. And Allāh hears your dialogue; indeed, Allāh is Hearing and Seeing.

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