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Surah Maryam, Verse 5

سورة مريم، الآية ٥

19:5 Juz 16 Hizb 31 Page 305 of the mushaf Meccan surah

Text of verse 19:5

وَإِنِّى خِفْتُ ٱلْمَوَٰلِىَ مِن وَرَآءِى وَكَانَتِ ٱمْرَأَتِى عَاقِرًا فَهَبْ لِى مِن لَّدُنكَ وَلِيًّا ۝٥

Transliteration

wa-innī khif'tu l-mawāliya min warāī wakānati im'ra-atī ʿāqiran fahab lī min ladunka waliyyan

Translation

And indeed, I fear the successors808 after me, and my wife has been barren, so give me from Yourself an heir

Notes

[808] Those relatives from the father's side who would inherit religious authority.

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Verse 5 of Surah Maryam (19:5), a Meccan surah, is in juz 16, on page 305 of the mushaf. Read it in Arabic with its transliteration, translations and tafsir, and listen to it recited by 72 reciters.

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Tafsir of verse 5

Al-Mukhtasar

And I feared that my relatives will not be able to fulfil the rights of the religion after my death, due to their engrossment in the worldly life. And my wife is barren, so grant me from Yourself a child to help me.

Tafsir of the whole Surah Maryam

Other translations of verse 5

And I fear my kinsmen after me,3 and my wife is barren; so grant me from Yourself an heir,

Notes

[3] i.e., my successors.

"And verily I fear my relatives after me, and my wife is barren. So give me from Yourself an heir.

Lo! I fear my kinsfolk after me, since my wife is barren. Oh, give me from Thy presence a successor

"Now I fear (what) my relatives (and colleagues) (will do) after me: but my wife is barren: so give me an heir as from Thyself,-

And surely I fear my cousins after me, and my wife is barren, therefore grant me from Thyself an heir,

And surely I fear my patronized (relatives) beyond me, (i.e., after I am gone) and my wife is barren. So bestow upon me, from very close to You, a constant patron (Some take it to mean a nephew or kinsman)

Verse 5 word by word

  1. وَإِنِّى wa-innī And indeed, I
  2. خِفْتُ khif'tu [I] fear خ و ف
  3. ٱلْمَوَٰلِىَ l-mawāliya the successors و ل ي
  4. مِن min after me
  5. وَرَآءِى warāī after me و ر ي
  6. وَكَانَتِ wakānati and is ك و ن
  7. ٱمْرَأَتِى im'ra-atī my wife م ر أ
  8. عَاقِرًا ʿāqiran barren ع ق ر
  9. فَهَبْ fahab So give و ه ب
  10. لِى lī [to] me
  11. مِن min from
  12. لَّدُنكَ ladunka Yourself ل د ن
  13. وَلِيًّا waliyyan an heir و ل ي

Hadiths that cite this verse

Authentic Sahih al-Bukhari 3430

That the Prophet (ﷺ) talked to them about the night of his Ascension to the Heavens. He said, "(Then Gabriel took me) and ascended up till he reached the second heaven where he asked for the gate to be opened, but it was asked, 'Who is it?' Gabriel replied, 'I am Gabriel.' It was asked, 'Who is…

أُسْرِيَ ‏"‏ ثُمَّ صَعِدَ حَتَّى أَتَى السَّمَاءَ الثَّانِيَةَ فَاسْتَفْتَحَ، قِيلَ مَنْ هَذَا قَالَ جِبْرِيلُ‏.‏ قِيلَ وَمَنْ مَعَكَ قَالَ مُحَمَّدٌ‏.‏ قِيلَ وَقَدْ أُرْسِلَ إِلَيْهِ قَالَ نَعَمْ‏.‏ فَلَمَّا خَلَصْتُ…

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