سورة ص، الآية ٦٣
أَتَّخَذْنَٰهُمْ سِخْرِيًّا أَمْ زَاغَتْ عَنْهُمُ ٱلْأَبْصَٰرُ ٦٣
attakhadhnāhum sikh'riyyan am zāghat ʿanhumu l-abṣāru
Is it [because] we took them in ridicule, or has [our] vision turned away from them?"
Verse 63 of Surah Sad (38:63), a Meccan surah, is in juz 23, on page 457 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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Was our mocking them a mistake and so they did not deserve to be punished, or was our mocking them right, and they have entered the fire but we have not seen them yet?”
Is it that we mistakenly made fun of them, or do our eyes fail to see them [in the Fire]?”
Did we take them as an object of mockery, or have (our) eyes failed to perceive them?"
Did we take them (wrongly) for a laughing-stock, or have our eyes missed them?
"Did we treat them (as such) in ridicule, or have (our) eyes failed to perceive them?"
Was it that we (only) took them in scorn, or have our eyes (now) turned aside from them?
Did we take them to ourselves as a (target of) scoffing? Or have our be holdings swerved away from them?"
وَنَادَىٰٓ أَصْحَٰبُ ٱلْجَنَّةِ أَصْحَٰبَ ٱلنَّارِ أَن قَدْ وَجَدْنَا مَا وَعَدَنَا رَبُّنَا حَقًّا فَهَلْ وَجَدتُّم مَّا وَعَدَ رَبُّكُمْ حَقًّا قَالُوا۟ نَعَمْ فَأَذَّنَ مُؤَذِّنٌۢ بَيْنَهُمْ أَن لَّعْنَةُ ٱللَّهِ عَلَى ٱلظَّٰلِمِينَ …
And the companions of Paradise will call out to the companions of the Fire, "We have already found what our Lord promised us to be true. Have you found what your Lord promised to be true?" They will say, "Yes." Then an announcer will announce among them, "The curse of Allāh shall be upon the wrongdoers …
