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Surah Maryam, Verse 66

سورة مريم، الآية ٦٦

19:66 Juz 16 Hizb 31 Page 310 of the mushaf Meccan surah

Text of verse 19:66

وَيَقُولُ ٱلْإِنسَٰنُ أَءِذَا مَا مِتُّ لَسَوْفَ أُخْرَجُ حَيًّا ۝٦٦

Transliteration

wayaqūlu l-insānu a-idhā mā mittu lasawfa ukh'raju ḥayyan

Translation

And man [i.e., the disbeliever] says, "When I have died, am I going to be brought forth alive?"

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Verse 66 of Surah Maryam (19:66), a Meccan surah, is in juz 16, on page 310 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 66

Al-Mukhtasar

The disbeliever, who rejects resurrection, mockingly says: What, when I die, I will come out of my grave alive for a second time? This is far-fetched.

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Other translations of verse 66

Man says, “Once I am dead, will I be raised to life again?”

And man (the disbeliever) says: "When I am dead, shall I then be raised up alive?"

And man saith: When I am dead, shall I forsooth be brought forth alive?

Man says: "What! When I am dead, shall I then be raised up alive?"

And says man: What! when I am dead shall I truly be brought forth alive?

And man says, "When I have (already) died, will I indeed be eventually brought out alive?

Verse 66 word by word

  1. وَيَقُولُ wayaqūlu And says ق و ل
  2. ٱلْإِنسَٰنُ l-insānu [the] man أ ن س
  3. أَءِذَا a-idhā What! When
  4. مَا mā What! When
  5. مِتُّ mittu I am dead م و ت
  6. لَسَوْفَ lasawfa surely will
  7. أُخْرَجُ ukh'raju I be brought forth خ ر ج
  8. حَيًّا ḥayyan alive ح ي ي

Verses related to verse 66

Cited by Ibn Kathir in his explanation of this verse

  • Ad-Duhaa 93:1–3

    وَٱلضُّحَىٰ …

    By the morning brightness …

  • Ar-Ra’d 13:5

    وَإِن تَعْجَبْ فَعَجَبٌ قَوْلُهُمْ أَءِذَا كُنَّا تُرَٰبًا أَءِنَّا لَفِى خَلْقٍ جَدِيدٍ أُو۟لَٰٓئِكَ ٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا۟ بِرَبِّهِمْ وَأُو۟لَٰٓئِكَ ٱلْأَغْلَٰلُ فِىٓ أَعْنَاقِهِمْ وَأُو۟لَٰٓئِكَ أَصْحَٰبُ ٱلنَّارِ هُمْ فِيهَا خَٰلِدُونَ

    And if you are astonished, [O Muḥammad] - then astonishing is their saying, "When we are dust, will we indeed be [brought] into a new creation?" Those are the ones who have disbelieved in their Lord, and those will have shackles upon their necks, and those are the companions of the Fire; they will abide therein eternally.

  • Ya-Sin 36:77–79

    أَوَلَمْ يَرَ ٱلْإِنسَٰنُ أَنَّا خَلَقْنَٰهُ مِن نُّطْفَةٍ فَإِذَا هُوَ خَصِيمٌ مُّبِينٌ …

    Does man not consider that We created him from a [mere] sperm-drop - then at once he is a clear adversary? …

  • Ar-Rum 30:27

    وَهُوَ ٱلَّذِى يَبْدَؤُا۟ ٱلْخَلْقَ ثُمَّ يُعِيدُهُۥ وَهُوَ أَهْوَنُ عَلَيْهِ وَلَهُ ٱلْمَثَلُ ٱلْأَعْلَىٰ فِى ٱلسَّمَٰوَٰتِ وَٱلْأَرْضِ وَهُوَ ٱلْعَزِيزُ ٱلْحَكِيمُ

    And it is He who begins creation; then He repeats it, and that is [even] easier for Him. To Him belongs the highest description [i.e., attribute] in the heavens and earth. And He is the Exalted in Might, the Wise.

  • Al-Jathiyah 45:28

    وَتَرَىٰ كُلَّ أُمَّةٍ جَاثِيَةً كُلُّ أُمَّةٍ تُدْعَىٰٓ إِلَىٰ كِتَٰبِهَا ٱلْيَوْمَ تُجْزَوْنَ مَا كُنتُمْ تَعْمَلُونَ

    And you will see every nation kneeling [from fear]. Every nation will be called to its record [and told], "Today you will be recompensed for what you used to do.

  • Al-A’raf 7:38–39

    قَالَ ٱدْخُلُوا۟ فِىٓ أُمَمٍ قَدْ خَلَتْ مِن قَبْلِكُم مِّنَ ٱلْجِنِّ وَٱلْإِنسِ فِى ٱلنَّارِ كُلَّمَا دَخَلَتْ أُمَّةٌ لَّعَنَتْ أُخْتَهَا حَتَّىٰٓ إِذَا ٱدَّارَكُوا۟ فِيهَا جَمِيعًا قَالَتْ أُخْرَىٰهُمْ لِأُولَىٰهُمْ رَبَّنَا هَٰٓؤُلَآءِ أَضَلُّونَا فَـَٔاتِهِمْ عَذَابًا ضِعْفًا مِّنَ ٱلنَّارِ قَالَ لِكُلٍّ ضِعْفٌ وَلَٰكِن لَّا تَعْلَمُونَ …

    [Allāh] will say, "Enter among nations which had passed on before you of jinn and mankind into the Fire." Every time a nation enters, it will curse its sister until, when they have all overtaken one another therein, the last of them will say about the first of them, "Our Lord, these had misled us, so give them a double punishment of the Fire." He will say, "For each is double, but you do not know." …

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