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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Rachid Maach Nabil Radwan (Noor International) Muhammad Hamidullah
Isa García Noor International (España) Noor International (Latinoamérica) Julio Cortés
Salomo Keyzer
Abubakar Mahmoud Gumi
محمد جوناگڑھی
Bubenheim & Elias
Ali Muhsin Al-Barwani
Hamza Roberto Piccardo
মুহিউদ্দীন খান
Rowwad Tercüme Merkezi Şaban Piriş Ali Özek ve arkadaşları Elmalılı Hamdi Yazır
Kementerian Agama RI
Mahmud Muhammad Abduh
حسین تاجی گلهداری
Abdullah Muhammad Basmeih
Sherif Ahmeti
Məmmədəliyev & Bünyadov
Besim Korkut
馬堅
Ivan Hrbek
Ahsen Böre
三田了一
최영길
Abdul Hameed & Parappoor
Abdulaziz Guroalim Saromantang
Einar Berg
Józef Bielawski
Samir El-Hayek
George Grigore
Эльмир Кулиев
Knut Bernström
ஜான் டிரஸ்ட்
Якуб ибн Нугман
สมาคมนักเรียนเก่าอาหรับ ประเทศไทย
Муҳаммад Содиқ Муҳаммад Юсуф
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.
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.
Tafsir of the whole Surah Qaf
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
وَجَآءَتْ
wajāat And will come ج ي أ
سَكْرَةُ
sakratu (the) stupor س ك ر
ٱلْمَوْتِ
l-mawti (of) death م و ت
بِٱلْحَقِّ
bil-ḥaqi in truth ح ق ق
ذَٰلِكَ
dhālika That
مَا
mā (is) what
كُنتَ
kunta you were ك و ن
مِنْهُ
min'hu [from it]
تَحِيدُ
taḥīdu avoiding ح ي د
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