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Surah Ya-Sin, Verse 45

سورة يس، الآية ٤٥

36:45 Juz 23 Hizb 45 Page 443 of the mushaf Meccan surah

Text of verse 36:45

وَإِذَا قِيلَ لَهُمُ ٱتَّقُوا۟ مَا بَيْنَ أَيْدِيكُمْ وَمَا خَلْفَكُمْ لَعَلَّكُمْ تُرْحَمُونَ ۝٤٥

Transliteration

wa-idhā qīla lahumu ittaqū mā bayna aydīkum wamā khalfakum laʿallakum tur'ḥamūna

Translation

But when it is said to them, "Beware of what is before you and what is behind you;1271 perhaps you will receive mercy..."1272

Notes

[1271] Of sins or of life in this world and the Hereafter.
[1272] The conclusion of this sentence is understood to be "...they ignored the warning."

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Verse 45 of Surah Ya-Sin (36:45), a Meccan surah, is in juz 23, on page 443 of the mushaf. Read it in Arabic with its transliteration, translations and tafsir, and listen to it recited by 71 reciters.

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Tafsir of verse 45

Al-Mukhtasar

When these idolaters who turn away from faith are told: Beware of what you are going towards in the Hereafter and its difficulties, and beware of the world behind you, in the hope that Allah will favour you with His mercy, they do not comply with that but they turn away from it without any care.

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Other translations of verse 45

When it is said to them, “Beware of what is ahead of you and what is behind you12, so that you may be shown mercy13.”

Notes

[12] Of what awaits you in this life and in the Hereafter, or of the sins of the past and the future.
[13] But they ignored the warning.

And when it is said to them: "Fear of that which is before you (worldly torments), and that which is behind you (torments in the Hereafter), in order that you may receive Mercy (i.e. if you believe in Allâh’s religion - Islâmic Monotheism, and avoid polytheism, and obey Allâh with righteous deeds)."

When it is said unto them: Beware of that which is before you and that which is behind you, that haply ye may find mercy (they are heedless).

When they are told, "Fear ye that which is before you and that which will be after you, in order that ye may receive Mercy," (they turn back).

And when it is said to them: Guard against what is before you and what is behind you, that mercy may be had on you.

And when it is said to them, "Be pious as regards what is before you (Literally: between your hands) and what is behind you, that possibly you would be granted mercy."

Verse 45 word by word

  1. وَإِذَا wa-idhā And when
  2. قِيلَ qīla it is said ق و ل
  3. لَهُمُ lahumu to them
  4. ٱتَّقُوا۟ ittaqū Fear و ق ي
  5. مَا mā what
  6. بَيْنَ bayna (is) before you ب ي ن
  7. أَيْدِيكُمْ aydīkum (is) before you ي د ي
  8. وَمَا wamā and what
  9. خَلْفَكُمْ khalfakum (is) behind you خ ل ف
  10. لَعَلَّكُمْ laʿallakum so that you may
  11. تُرْحَمُونَ tur'ḥamūna receive mercy ر ح م

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Cited by Ibn Kathir in his explanation of this verse

  • Al-Haqqah 69:11–12

    إِنَّا لَمَّا طَغَا ٱلْمَآءُ حَمَلْنَٰكُمْ فِى ٱلْجَارِيَةِ …

    Indeed, when the water overflowed, We carried you [i.e., your ancestors] in the sailing ship …

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