وَيْلٌ لِّكُلِّ هُمَزَةٍ لُّمَزَةٍ ١
waylun likulli humazatin lumazatin
1. Woe to every scorner and mocker
Surah Al-Humazah transliteration
سورة الهمزة
Here is Surah Al-Humazah (“The Traducer”) in transliteration: each of its 9 verses in Arabic, then in Latin letters (one Latin word for each Arabic word) and translated into English. Start the recitation: each word lights up as it is pronounced.
Letters with a bar (ā, ī, ū) are long, ʿ marks the letter ʿayn, ḥ, ṣ, ḍ, ṭ, ẓ the emphatic letters. Hover over or tap an Arabic word to see its meaning.
Tajweed rules
- Hamzat al-wasl (silent)
- Silent letter
- Lam shamsiyyah (assimilated)
- Normal madd (2 counts)
- Permissible madd (2, 4 or 6 counts)
- Obligatory madd (4 or 5 counts)
- Necessary madd (6 counts)
- Ghunnah (nasalisation, 2 counts)
- Qalqalah (echo)
- Ikhfa (concealment)
- Ikhfa shafawi (meem)
- Idgham with ghunnah
- Idgham without ghunnah
- Idgham shafawi (meem)
- Idgham mutajanisayn
- Idgham mutaqaribayn
- Iqlab (noon becomes meem)
بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ
bis'mi l-lahi l-raḥmāni l-raḥīmi
ٱلَّذِى جَمَعَ مَالًا وَعَدَّدَهُۥ ٢
alladhī jamaʿa mālan waʿaddadahu
2. Who collects wealth and [continuously] counts it.1987
Notes
[1987] Rather than spending in the way of Allāh.
يَحْسَبُ أَنَّ مَالَهُۥٓ أَخْلَدَهُۥ ٣
yaḥsabu anna mālahu akhladahu
3. He thinks that his wealth will make him immortal.
كَلَّا لَيُنۢبَذَنَّ فِى ٱلْحُطَمَةِ ٤
kallā layunbadhanna fī l-ḥuṭamati
4. No! He will surely be thrown into the Crusher.1988
Notes
[1988] i.e., Hellfire, which crushes and destroys all that enters it.
وَمَآ أَدْرَىٰكَ مَا ٱلْحُطَمَةُ ٥
wamā adrāka mā l-ḥuṭamatu
5. And what can make you know what is the Crusher?
نَارُ ٱللَّهِ ٱلْمُوقَدَةُ ٦
nāru l-lahi l-mūqadatu
6. It is the fire of Allāh, [eternally] fueled,
ٱلَّتِى تَطَّلِعُ عَلَى ٱلْأَفْـِٔدَةِ ٧
allatī taṭṭaliʿu ʿalā l-afidati
7. Which mounts directed at the hearts.1989
Notes
[1989] Covering them and penetrating them.
إِنَّهَا عَلَيْهِم مُّؤْصَدَةٌ ٨
innahā ʿalayhim mu'ṣadatun
8. Indeed, it [i.e., Hellfire] will be closed down upon them
فِى عَمَدٍ مُّمَدَّدَةٍۭ ٩
fī ʿamadin mumaddadatin
9. In extended columns.1990
Notes
[1990] Interpreted to be either columns of fire or columns of iron to which are chained the inmates of Hell.
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