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Surah Sad, Verse 16

سورة ص، الآية ١٦

38:16 Juz 23 Hizb 46 Page 453 of the mushaf Meccan surah

Text of verse 38:16

وَقَالُوا۟ رَبَّنَا عَجِّل لَّنَا قِطَّنَا قَبْلَ يَوْمِ ٱلْحِسَابِ ۝١٦

Transliteration

waqālū rabbanā ʿajjil lanā qiṭṭanā qabla yawmi l-ḥisābi

Translation

And they say, "Our Lord, hasten for us our share [of the punishment] before the Day of Account."

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Verse 16 of Surah Sad (38:16), 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 16

Al-Mukhtasar

And they said mockingly: “Our Lord, give us our share of punishment in the worldly life before the day of judgment”.

Tafsir of the whole Surah Sad

Other translations of verse 16

They say, “Our Lord, hasten for us our share [of punishment] before the Day of Reckoning.”

They say: "Our Lord! Hasten to us Qittanâ (i.e. our Record of good and bad deeds so that we may see it) before the Day of Reckoning!"

They say: Our Lord! Hasten on for us our fate before the Day of Reckoning.

They say: "Our Lord! hasten to us our sentence (even) before the Day of Account!"

And they say: O our Lord! hasten on to us our portion before the day of reckoning.

And they have said, "Our Lord, hasten (quickly) to us our sentence before the Day of Reckoning."

Verse 16 word by word

  1. وَقَالُوا۟ waqālū And they say ق و ل
  2. رَبَّنَا rabbanā Our Lord ر ب ب
  3. عَجِّل ʿajjil Hasten ع ج ل
  4. لَّنَا lanā for us
  5. قِطَّنَا qiṭṭanā our share ق ط ط
  6. قَبْلَ qabla before ق ب ل
  7. يَوْمِ yawmi (the) Day ي و م
  8. ٱلْحِسَابِ l-ḥisābi (of) the Account ح س ب

Verses related to verse 16

Cited by Ibn Kathir in his explanation of this verse

  • Al-Anfal 8:32

    وَإِذْ قَالُوا۟ ٱللَّهُمَّ إِن كَانَ هَٰذَا هُوَ ٱلْحَقَّ مِنْ عِندِكَ فَأَمْطِرْ عَلَيْنَا حِجَارَةً مِّنَ ٱلسَّمَآءِ أَوِ ٱئْتِنَا بِعَذَابٍ أَلِيمٍ

    And [remember] when they said, "O Allāh, if this should be the truth from You, then rain down upon us stones from the sky or bring us a painful punishment."

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