Text of verse 50:8
تَبْصِرَةً وَذِكْرَىٰ لِكُلِّ عَبْدٍ مُّنِيبٍ ٨
Transliteration
tabṣiratan wadhik'rā likulli ʿabdin munībin
Translation
Giving insight and a reminder for every servant who turns [to Allāh].
سورة ق، الآية ٨
تَبْصِرَةً وَذِكْرَىٰ لِكُلِّ عَبْدٍ مُّنِيبٍ ٨
tabṣiratan wadhik'rā likulli ʿabdin munībin
Giving insight and a reminder for every servant who turns [to Allāh].
Verse 8 of Surah Qaf (50:8), a Meccan surah, is in juz 26, on page 518 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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I created all that as an enlightenment and reminder for every servant who turns to his Lord in obedience.
as a source of insight and a reminder to every slave who turns [to Allah].
An insight and a Reminder for every slave who turns to Allâh in repentance (i.e. the one who believes in the Oneness of Allâh and performs deeds of His obedience, and always begs His pardon).
A vision and a reminder for every penitent slave.
To be observed and commemorated by every devotee turning (to Allah).
To give sight and as a reminder to every servant who turns frequently (to Allah).
For a clear demonstration, and a Reminding for every penitent bondman.
They share a sequence of words with this verse: useful for telling them apart when memorising.
أَفَلَمْ يَرَوْا۟ إِلَىٰ مَا بَيْنَ أَيْدِيهِمْ وَمَا خَلْفَهُم مِّنَ ٱلسَّمَآءِ وَٱلْأَرْضِ إِن نَّشَأْ نَخْسِفْ بِهِمُ ٱلْأَرْضَ أَوْ نُسْقِطْ عَلَيْهِمْ كِسَفًا مِّنَ ٱلسَّمَآءِ إِنَّ فِى ذَٰلِكَ لَـَٔايَةً لِّكُلِّ عَبْدٍ مُّنِيبٍ
Then, do they not look at what is before them and what is behind them of the heaven and earth? If We should will, We could cause the earth to swallow them or [could] let fall upon them fragments from the sky. Indeed in that is a sign for every servant turning back [to Allāh].