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Surah Yunus, Verse 4

سورة يونس، الآية ٤

10:4 Juz 11 Hizb 21 Page 208 of the mushaf Meccan surah

Text of verse 10:4

إِلَيْهِ مَرْجِعُكُمْ جَمِيعًا وَعْدَ ٱللَّهِ حَقًّا إِنَّهُۥ يَبْدَؤُا۟ ٱلْخَلْقَ ثُمَّ يُعِيدُهُۥ لِيَجْزِىَ ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوا۟ وَعَمِلُوا۟ ٱلصَّٰلِحَٰتِ بِٱلْقِسْطِ وَٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا۟ لَهُمْ شَرَابٌ مِّنْ حَمِيمٍ وَعَذَابٌ أَلِيمٌۢ بِمَا كَانُوا۟ يَكْفُرُونَ ۝٤

Transliteration

ilayhi marjiʿukum jamīʿan waʿda l-lahi ḥaqqan innahu yabda-u l-khalqa thumma yuʿīduhu liyajziya alladhīna āmanū waʿamilū l-ṣāliḥāti bil-qis'ṭi wa-alladhīna kafarū lahum sharābun min ḥamīmin waʿadhābun alīmun bimā kānū yakfurūna

Translation

To Him is your return all together. [It is] the promise of Allāh [which is] truth. Indeed, He begins the [process of] creation and then repeats it that He may reward those who have believed and done righteous deeds, in justice. But those who disbelieved will have a drink of scalding water and a painful punishment for what they used to deny.

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Verse 4 of Surah Yunus (10:4), a Meccan surah, is in juz 11, on page 208 of the mushaf. Read it in Arabic with its transliteration, translations and tafsir, and listen to it recited by 74 reciters.

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Tafsir of verse 4

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You will return to Him alone on the Day of Judgement, when He will repay you for what you have done. Allah’s promise to humankind about this is a true. He is well capable of that. He made people from clay without precedent. He will bring them back again after their death to reward with justice those who had faith in Allah and did good actions, neither subtracting from their good actions nor increasing their bad actions. As for those who disbelieved in Allah and His Messenger, they will have a drink of boiling water which will affect their insides and for them is a painful punishment because of their disbelief in Allah and His Messenger.

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Other translations of verse 4

To Him is your return altogether. Allah’s promise will surely come true. He originates the creation then brings it back, so that He may justly reward those who believe and do righteous deeds. But for those who disbelieve, there will be a drink of scalding water and a painful punishment because of their disbelief.

To Him is the return of all of you. The Promise of Allâh is true. It is He Who begins the creation and then will repeat it, that He may reward with justice those who believed (in the Oneness of Allâh - Islâmic Monotheism) and did deeds of righteousness. But those who disbelieved will have a drink of boiling fluids and painful torment because they used to disbelieve.

Unto Him is the return of all of you; it is a promise of Allah in truth. Lo! He produceth creation, then reproduceth it, that He may reward those who believe and do good works with equity; while, as for those who disbelieve, theirs will be a boiling drink and painful doom because they disbelieved.

To Him will be your return- of all of you. The promise of Allah is true and sure. It is He Who beginneth the process of creation, and repeateth it, that He may reward with justice those who believe and work righteousness; but those who reject Him will have draughts of boiling fluids, and a penalty grievous, because they did reject Him.

To Him is your return, of all (of you); the promise of Allah (made) in truth; surely He begins the creation in the first instance, then He reproduces it, that He may with justice recompense those who believe and do good; and (as for) those who disbelieve, they shall have a drink of hot water and painful punishment because they disbelieved.

To Him will be your return altogether, the promise of Allah, truly (binding). Surely He begins the creation; thereafter He brings it back again to recompense the ones who have believed and done deeds of righteousness with equity. And the ones who have disbelieved will have a drink of scalding water and a painful torment for that they have been disbelieving.

Verse 4 word by word

  1. إِلَيْهِ ilayhi To Him
  2. مَرْجِعُكُمْ marjiʿukum (will be) your return ر ج ع
  3. جَمِيعًا jamīʿan [all] ج م ع
  4. وَعْدَ waʿda Promise و ع د
  5. ٱللَّهِ l-lahi (of) Allah
  6. حَقًّا ḥaqqan (is) true ح ق ق
  7. إِنَّهُۥ innahu Indeed, He
  8. يَبْدَؤُا۟ yabda-u originates ب د أ
  9. ٱلْخَلْقَ l-khalqa the creation خ ل ق
  10. ثُمَّ thumma then
  11. يُعِيدُهُۥ yuʿīduhu He repeats it ع و د
  12. لِيَجْزِىَ liyajziya that He may reward ج ز ي
  13. ٱلَّذِينَ alladhīna those who
  14. ءَامَنُوا۟ āmanū believed أ م ن
  15. وَعَمِلُوا۟ waʿamilū and did ع م ل
  16. ٱلصَّٰلِحَٰتِ l-ṣāliḥāti the good deeds ص ل ح
  17. بِٱلْقِسْطِ bil-qis'ṭi in justice ق س ط
  18. وَٱلَّذِينَ wa-alladhīna But those who
  19. كَفَرُوا۟ kafarū disbelieved ك ف ر
  20. لَهُمْ lahum for them
  21. شَرَابٌ sharābun (will be) a drink ش ر ب
  22. مِّنْ min of
  23. حَمِيمٍ ḥamīmin boiling fluids ح م م
  24. وَعَذَابٌ waʿadhābun and a punishment ع ذ ب
  25. أَلِيمٌۢ alīmun painful أ ل م
  26. بِمَا bimā because
  27. كَانُوا۟ kānū they used (to) ك و ن
  28. يَكْفُرُونَ yakfurūna disbelieve ك ف ر

Verses related to verse 4

Cited by Ibn Kathir in his explanation of this verse

  • Ya-Sin 36:39–40

    وَٱلْقَمَرَ قَدَّرْنَٰهُ مَنَازِلَ حَتَّىٰ عَادَ كَٱلْعُرْجُونِ ٱلْقَدِيمِ …

    And the moon - We have determined for it phases, until it returns [appearing] like the old date stalk. …

  • Al-An’am 6:96

    فَالِقُ ٱلْإِصْبَاحِ وَجَعَلَ ٱلَّيْلَ سَكَنًا وَٱلشَّمْسَ وَٱلْقَمَرَ حُسْبَانًا ذَٰلِكَ تَقْدِيرُ ٱلْعَزِيزِ ٱلْعَلِيمِ

    [He is] the cleaver of daybreak and has made the night for rest and the sun and moon for calculation. That is the determination of the Exalted in Might, the Knowing.

  • Ar-Rum 30:27

    وَهُوَ ٱلَّذِى يَبْدَؤُا۟ ٱلْخَلْقَ ثُمَّ يُعِيدُهُۥ وَهُوَ أَهْوَنُ عَلَيْهِ وَلَهُ ٱلْمَثَلُ ٱلْأَعْلَىٰ فِى ٱلسَّمَٰوَٰتِ وَٱلْأَرْضِ وَهُوَ ٱلْعَزِيزُ ٱلْحَكِيمُ

    And it is He who begins creation; then He repeats it, and that is [even] easier for Him. To Him belongs the highest description [i.e., attribute] in the heavens and earth. And He is the Exalted in Might, the Wise.

  • Al-Waqi’ah 56:42–43

    فِى سَمُومٍ وَحَمِيمٍ …

    [They will be] in scorching fire and scalding water …

  • Sad 38:57–58

    هَٰذَا فَلْيَذُوقُوهُ حَمِيمٌ وَغَسَّاقٌ …

    This - so let them taste it - is scalding water and [foul] purulence. …

  • Ar-Rahman 55:43–44

    هَٰذِهِۦ جَهَنَّمُ ٱلَّتِى يُكَذِّبُ بِهَا ٱلْمُجْرِمُونَ …

    This is Hell, which the criminals deny. …

Verses with similar wording

They share a sequence of words with this verse: useful for telling them apart when memorising.

  • Saba 34:4

    لِّيَجْزِىَ ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوا۟ وَعَمِلُوا۟ ٱلصَّٰلِحَٰتِ أُو۟لَٰٓئِكَ لَهُم مَّغْفِرَةٌ وَرِزْقٌ كَرِيمٌ

    That He may reward those who believe and do righteous deeds. Those will have forgiveness and noble provision.

  • Al-An’am 6:70

    وَذَرِ ٱلَّذِينَ ٱتَّخَذُوا۟ دِينَهُمْ لَعِبًا وَلَهْوًا وَغَرَّتْهُمُ ٱلْحَيَوٰةُ ٱلدُّنْيَا وَذَكِّرْ بِهِۦٓ أَن تُبْسَلَ نَفْسٌۢ بِمَا كَسَبَتْ لَيْسَ لَهَا مِن دُونِ ٱللَّهِ وَلِىٌّ وَلَا شَفِيعٌ وَإِن تَعْدِلْ كُلَّ عَدْلٍ لَّا يُؤْخَذْ مِنْهَآ أُو۟لَٰٓئِكَ ٱلَّذِينَ أُبْسِلُوا۟ بِمَا كَسَبُوا۟ لَهُمْ شَرَابٌ مِّنْ حَمِيمٍ وَعَذَابٌ أَلِيمٌۢ بِمَا كَانُوا۟ يَكْفُرُونَ

    And leave those who take their religion as amusement and diversion and whom the worldly life has deluded. But remind with it [i.e., the Qur’ān], lest a soul be given up to destruction for what it earned; it will have other than Allāh no protector and no intercessor. And if it should offer every compensation, it would not be taken from it [i.e., that soul]. Those are the ones who are given to destruction for what they have earned. For them will be a drink of scalding water and a painful punishment because they used to disbelieve.

  • Ar-Rum 30:45

    لِيَجْزِىَ ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوا۟ وَعَمِلُوا۟ ٱلصَّٰلِحَٰتِ مِن فَضْلِهِۦٓ إِنَّهُۥ لَا يُحِبُّ ٱلْكَٰفِرِينَ

    That He may reward those who have believed and done righteous deeds out of His bounty. Indeed, He does not like the disbelievers.

  • Ar-Ra’d 13:29

    ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوا۟ وَعَمِلُوا۟ ٱلصَّٰلِحَٰتِ طُوبَىٰ لَهُمْ وَحُسْنُ مَـَٔابٍ

    Those who have believed and done righteous deeds - a good state is theirs and a good return.

  • Ar-Rum 30:11

    ٱللَّهُ يَبْدَؤُا۟ ٱلْخَلْقَ ثُمَّ يُعِيدُهُۥ ثُمَّ إِلَيْهِ تُرْجَعُونَ

    Allāh begins creation; then He will repeat it; then to Him you will be returned.

  • Luqman 31:8

    إِنَّ ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوا۟ وَعَمِلُوا۟ ٱلصَّٰلِحَٰتِ لَهُمْ جَنَّٰتُ ٱلنَّعِيمِ

    Indeed, those who believe and do righteous deeds - for them are the Gardens of Pleasure,

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