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Surah Saba, Verse 30

سورة سبإ، الآية ٣٠

34:30 Juz 22 Hizb 44 Page 431 of the mushaf Meccan surah

Text of verse 34:30

قُل لَّكُم مِّيعَادُ يَوْمٍ لَّا تَسْتَـْٔخِرُونَ عَنْهُ سَاعَةً وَلَا تَسْتَقْدِمُونَ ۝٣٠

Transliteration

qul lakum mīʿādu yawmin lā tastakhirūna ʿanhu sāʿatan walā tastaqdimūna

Translation

Say, "For you is the appointment of a Day [when] you will not remain thereafter an hour, nor will you precede [it]."

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Verse 30 of Surah Saba (34:30), a Meccan surah, is in juz 22, on page 431 of the mushaf. Read it in Arabic with its transliteration, translations and tafsir, and listen to it recited by 73 reciters.

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Tafsir of verse 30

Al-Mukhtasar

O Messenger! Say to these people who are hastily seeking the punishment: “For you is a fixed appointed time, when the time comes upon you it will not be delayed or preceded for the smallest moment of time. And this day is the day of judgment”.

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Other translations of verse 30

Say, “There is an appointed Day for you that you can neither delay for a while, nor can you bring it forward.”

Say (O Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم): "The appointment to you is for a Day, which you cannot put back for an hour (or a moment) nor put forward."

Say (O Muhammad): Yours is the promise of a Day which ye cannot postpone nor hasten by an hour.

Say: "The appointment to you is for a Day, which ye cannot put back for an hour nor put forward."

Say: You have the appointment of a day from which you cannot hold back any while, nor can you bring it on.

Say, "You have the promised Appointment of a Day that you cannot postpone by a (single) hour, nor can you put it forward."

Verse 30 word by word

  1. قُل qul Say ق و ل
  2. لَّكُم lakum For you
  3. مِّيعَادُ mīʿādu (is the) appointment و ع د
  4. يَوْمٍ yawmin (of) a Day ي و م
  5. لَّا lā not
  6. تَسْتَـْٔخِرُونَ tastakhirūna you can postpone أ خ ر
  7. عَنْهُ ʿanhu [of] it
  8. سَاعَةً sāʿatan (for) an hour س و ع
  9. وَلَا walā and not
  10. تَسْتَقْدِمُونَ tastaqdimūna (can) you precede (it) ق د م

Verses related to verse 30

Cited by Ibn Kathir in his explanation of this verse

  • Nuh 71:4

    يَغْفِرْ لَكُم مِّن ذُنُوبِكُمْ وَيُؤَخِّرْكُمْ إِلَىٰٓ أَجَلٍ مُّسَمًّى إِنَّ أَجَلَ ٱللَّهِ إِذَا جَآءَ لَا يُؤَخَّرُ لَوْ كُنتُمْ تَعْلَمُونَ

    He [i.e., Allāh] will forgive you of your sins and delay you for a specified term. Indeed, the time [set by] Allāh, when it comes, will not be delayed, if you only knew."

  • Hud 11:104–105

    وَمَا نُؤَخِّرُهُۥٓ إِلَّا لِأَجَلٍ مَّعْدُودٍ …

    And We do not delay it except for a limited term. …

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