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Surah Taha, Verse 111

سورة طه، الآية ١١١

20:111 Juz 16 Hizb 32 Page 319 of the mushaf Meccan surah

Text of verse 20:111

وَعَنَتِ ٱلْوُجُوهُ لِلْحَىِّ ٱلْقَيُّومِ وَقَدْ خَابَ مَنْ حَمَلَ ظُلْمًا ۝١١١

Transliteration

waʿanati l-wujūhu lil'ḥayyi l-qayūmi waqad khāba man ḥamala ẓul'man

Translation

And [all] faces will be humbled before the Ever-Living, the Self-Sustaining.858 And he will have failed who carries injustice.859

Notes

[858] See footnotes describing these attributes in 2:255.
[859] i.e., sin or wrongdoing towards Allāh or any of His creation.

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Verse 111 of Surah Taha (20:111), a Meccan surah, is in juz 16, on page 319 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 111

Al-Mukhtasar

The faces of the servants will humble and surrender before the Eternal One who does not die and who takes care of the affairs of His servants by managing and administering them. And the one Who carried sin has lost, due to his taking himself to places of destruction.

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Other translations of verse 111

All faces will be humbled before the Ever-Living, Self-Sustaining. Those burdened with wrongdoing40 will be in a total loss.

Notes

[40] i.e., sins, evil deeds, or wrongdoing towards others.

And (all) faces shall be humbled before (Allâh), Al-Hayyul-Qayyum (the Ever Living, the One Who sustains and protects all that exists). And he who carried (a burden of) wrongdoing (i.e. he who disbelieved in Allâh, ascribed partners to Him, and did deeds of His disobedience), will be indeed a complete failure (on that Day).

And faces humble themselves before the Living, the Eternal. And he who beareth (a burden of) wrongdoing is indeed a failure (on that day).

(All) faces shall be humbled before (Him) - the Living, the Self-Subsisting, Eternal: hopeless indeed will be the man that carries iniquity (on his back).

And the faces shall be humbled before the Living, the Self-subsistent Allah, and he who bears iniquity is indeed a failure.

And faces will be subservient to The Ever Living, The Superb Upright Sustainer, (Or: The Most Upright) and he who bears (a burden of) injustice is already disappointed.

Verse 111 word by word

  1. وَعَنَتِ waʿanati And (will be) humbled ع ن و
  2. ٱلْوُجُوهُ l-wujūhu the faces و ج ه
  3. لِلْحَىِّ lil'ḥayyi before the Ever-Living ح ي ي
  4. ٱلْقَيُّومِ l-qayūmi the Self-Subsisting ق و م
  5. وَقَدْ waqad And verily
  6. خَابَ khāba will have failed خ ي ب
  7. مَنْ man (he) who
  8. حَمَلَ ḥamala carried ح م ل
  9. ظُلْمًا ẓul'man wrongdoing ظ ل م

Verses related to verse 111

Cited by Ibn Kathir in his explanation of this verse

  • Luqman 31:13

    وَإِذْ قَالَ لُقْمَٰنُ لِٱبْنِهِۦ وَهُوَ يَعِظُهُۥ يَٰبُنَىَّ لَا تُشْرِكْ بِٱللَّهِ إِنَّ ٱلشِّرْكَ لَظُلْمٌ عَظِيمٌ

    And [mention, O Muḥammad], when Luqmān said to his son while he was instructing him, "O my son, do not associate [anything] with Allāh. Indeed, association [with Him] is great injustice."

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  • Ash-Shams 91:10

    وَقَدْ خَابَ مَن دَسَّىٰهَا

    And he has failed who instills it [with corruption].

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