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Surah Yusuf, Verse 57

سورة يوسف، الآية ٥٧

12:57 Juz 13 Hizb 25 Page 242 of the mushaf Meccan surah

Text of verse 12:57

وَلَأَجْرُ ٱلْـَٔاخِرَةِ خَيْرٌ لِّلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوا۟ وَكَانُوا۟ يَتَّقُونَ ۝٥٧

Transliteration

wala-ajru l-ākhirati khayrun lilladhīna āmanū wakānū yattaqūna

Translation

And the reward of the Hereafter is better for those who believed and were fearing Allāh.

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Verse 57 of Surah Yusuf (12:57), a Meccan surah, is in juz 13, on page 242 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 57

Al-Mukhtasar

The reward of Allah, which He has prepared in the Afterlife, is certainly better than the reward of this life for those who have faith in Allah and who were mindful of Him, following what He has ordered and staying away from what He has prohibited.

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Other translations of verse 57

But the reward of the Hereafter is better for those who believe and fear Allah.

And verily, the reward of the Hereafter is better for those who believe and used to fear Allâh and keep their duty to Him (by abstaining from all kinds of sins and evil deeds and by performing all kinds of righteous good deeds).

And the reward of the Hereafter is better, for those who believe and ward off (evil).

But verily the reward of the Hereafter is the best, for those who believe, and are constant in righteousness.

And certainly the reward of the hereafter is much better for those who believe and guard (against evil).

And indeed the reward of the Hereafter is most charitable (i.e., better) for the ones who have believed and have been pious.

Verse 57 word by word

  1. وَلَأَجْرُ wala-ajru And surely (the) reward أ ج ر
  2. ٱلْـَٔاخِرَةِ l-ākhirati (of) the Hereafter أ خ ر
  3. خَيْرٌ khayrun (is) better خ ي ر
  4. لِّلَّذِينَ lilladhīna for those who
  5. ءَامَنُوا۟ āmanū believe أ م ن
  6. وَكَانُوا۟ wakānū and are ك و ن
  7. يَتَّقُونَ yattaqūna God conscious و ق ي

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  • Sad 38:39–40

    هَٰذَا عَطَآؤُنَا فَٱمْنُنْ أَوْ أَمْسِكْ بِغَيْرِ حِسَابٍ …

    [We said], "This is Our gift, so grant or withhold without account." …

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  • Yunus 10:63

    ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوا۟ وَكَانُوا۟ يَتَّقُونَ

    Those who believed and were fearing Allāh.

  • An-Naml 27:53

    وَأَنجَيْنَا ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوا۟ وَكَانُوا۟ يَتَّقُونَ

    And We saved those who believed and used to fear Allāh.

  • Fussilat 41:18

    وَنَجَّيْنَا ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوا۟ وَكَانُوا۟ يَتَّقُونَ

    And We saved those who believed and used to fear Allāh.

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