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Surah Qaf, Verse 19

سورة ق، الآية ١٩

50:19 Juz 26 Hizb 52 Page 519 of the mushaf Meccan surah

Text of verse 50:19

وَجَآءَتْ سَكْرَةُ ٱلْمَوْتِ بِٱلْحَقِّ ذَٰلِكَ مَا كُنتَ مِنْهُ تَحِيدُ ۝١٩

Transliteration

wajāat sakratu l-mawti bil-ḥaqi dhālika mā kunta min'hu taḥīdu

Translation

And the intoxication of death will bring the truth; that is what you were trying to avoid.

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Verse 19 of Surah Qaf (50:19), a Meccan surah, is in juz 26, on page 519 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 19

Al-Mukhtasar

And the intoxication of death will bring the truth; that is what you were trying to avoid. The pangs of death are a reality and will come; there is no escaping from them. O negligent human! That is what you used to turn away from and delay.

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Other translations of verse 19

The throes of death will come with the truth11. This is what you were trying to avoid.

Notes

[11] When a disbeliever or a heedless person is in death throes, he will realize that resurrection and reckoning are true.

And the stupor of death will come in truth: "This is what you have been avoiding!"

And the agony of death cometh in truth. (And it is said unto him): This is that which thou wast wont to shun.

And the stupor of death will bring Truth (before his eyes): "This was the thing which thou wast trying to escape!"

And the stupor of death will come in truth; that is what you were trying to escape.

And the stupor of death comes with the Truth; that is what you were averting.

Verse 19 word by word

  1. وَجَآءَتْ wajāat And will come ج ي أ
  2. سَكْرَةُ sakratu (the) stupor س ك ر
  3. ٱلْمَوْتِ l-mawti (of) death م و ت
  4. بِٱلْحَقِّ bil-ḥaqi in truth ح ق ق
  5. ذَٰلِكَ dhālika That
  6. مَا mā (is) what
  7. كُنتَ kunta you were ك و ن
  8. مِنْهُ min'hu [from it]
  9. تَحِيدُ taḥīdu avoiding ح ي د

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