Text of verse 38:14
إِن كُلٌّ إِلَّا كَذَّبَ ٱلرُّسُلَ فَحَقَّ عِقَابِ ١٤
Transliteration
in kullun illā kadhaba l-rusula faḥaqqa ʿiqābi
Translation
Each of them denied the messengers, so My penalty was justified.
سورة ص، الآية ١٤
إِن كُلٌّ إِلَّا كَذَّبَ ٱلرُّسُلَ فَحَقَّ عِقَابِ ١٤
in kullun illā kadhaba l-rusula faḥaqqa ʿiqābi
Each of them denied the messengers, so My penalty was justified.
Verse 14 of Surah Sad (38:14), a Meccan surah, is in juz 23, on page 453 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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There is not a single one of these groups except that it denied the messengers. So Allah’s punishment was justified for them and His punishment befell them, even though it was delayed for a while.
Each of them rejected their messenger, therefore My punishment became inevitable.
Not one of them but belied the Messengers; therefore My Torment was justified,
Not one of them but did deny the messengers, therefor My doom was justified,
Not one (of them) but rejected the messengers, but My punishment came justly and inevitably (on them).
There was none of them but called the messengers liars, so just was My retribution.
Decidedly not one but cried lies to the Messengers, so My punishment came true.