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Surah Sad, Verse 15

سورة ص، الآية ١٥

38:15 Juz 23 Hizb 46 Page 453 of the mushaf Meccan surah

Text of verse 38:15

وَمَا يَنظُرُ هَٰٓؤُلَآءِ إِلَّا صَيْحَةً وَٰحِدَةً مَّا لَهَا مِن فَوَاقٍ ۝١٥

Transliteration

wamā yanẓuru hāulāi illā ṣayḥatan wāḥidatan mā lahā min fawāqin

Translation

And these [disbelievers] await not but one blast [of the Horn]; for it there will be no delay.1324

Notes

[1324] Or "respite." More literally, "a period between two milkings of a she-camel," which also alludes to the meanings of "return" or "repetition."

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Verse 15 of Surah Sad (38:15), 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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Tafsir of verse 15

Al-Mukhtasar

These deniers of Muhammad (peace be upon him) are not waiting except for the second blowing of the Trumpet in which there shall be no return. Then the punishment will fall upon them if they had died in a state of denial.

Tafsir of the whole Surah Sad

Other translations of verse 15

They are only waiting for a single Blast that cannot be stopped11.

Notes

[11] Fawāq: "respite", more literally, "a period between two milkings of a she-camel," which also alludes to "return" or "repetition."

And these only wait for a single Saihah [shout (i.e. the blowing of the Trumpet by the angel Isrâfil -)] there will be no pause or ending thereto [till everything will perish except Allâh (the only God full of Majesty, Bounty and Honour)].

These wait for but one Shout, there will be no second thereto.

These (today) only wait for a single mighty Blast, which (when it comes) will brook no delay.

Nor do these await aught but a single cry, there being no delay in it.

And in no way are these looking for anything except one Shout; in no way is there any recovery from it.

Verse 15 word by word

  1. وَمَا wamā And not
  2. يَنظُرُ yanẓuru await ن ظ ر
  3. هَٰٓؤُلَآءِ hāulāi these
  4. إِلَّا illā but
  5. صَيْحَةً ṣayḥatan a shout ص ي ح
  6. وَٰحِدَةً wāḥidatan one و ح د
  7. مَّا mā not
  8. لَهَا lahā for it
  9. مِن min any
  10. فَوَاقٍ fawāqin delay ف و ق

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