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Surah Ash-Shu'ara, Ayah 81-100 — Word by Word

الشعراء

The Poets

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Explanations are simplified from tafsirs by Ibn Kathir, Mufti Muhammad Shafi, and Maulana Wahiduddin Khan. Spot an inaccuracy? Let us know.

81
٨١

wa-alladhī yumītunī thumma yuḥ'yīni

And who will cause me to die and then bring me to life

82
٨٢

wa-alladhī aṭmaʿu an yaghfira lī khaṭīatī yawma l-dīni

And who I aspire that He will forgive me my sin on the Day of Recompense."

83
٨٣

rabbi hab lī ḥuk'man wa-alḥiq'nī bil-ṣāliḥīna

[And he said], "My Lord, grant me authority and join me with the righteous.

84
٨٤

wa-ij'ʿal lī lisāna ṣid'qin fī l-ākhirīna

And grant me a mention [i.e., reputation] of honor among later generations.

85
٨٥

wa-ij'ʿalnī min warathati jannati l-naʿīmi

And place me among the inheritors of the Garden of Pleasure.

86
٨٦

wa-igh'fir li-abī innahu kāna mina l-ḍālīna

And forgive my father. Indeed, he has been of those astray.

87
٨٧

walā tukh'zinī yawma yub'ʿathūna

And do not disgrace me on the Day they are [all] resurrected -

88
٨٨

yawma lā yanfaʿu mālun walā banūna

The Day when there will not benefit [anyone] wealth or children

89
٨٩

illā man atā l-laha biqalbin salīmin

But only one who comes to Allāh with a sound heart."

90
٩٠

wa-uz'lifati l-janatu lil'muttaqīna

And Paradise will be brought near [that Day] to the righteous.

91
٩١

waburrizati l-jaḥīmu lil'ghāwīna

And Hellfire will be brought forth for the deviators,

92
٩٢

waqīla lahum ayna mā kuntum taʿbudūna

And it will be said to them, "Where are those you used to worship

93
٩٣

min dūni l-lahi hal yanṣurūnakum aw yantaṣirūna

Other than Allāh? Can they help you or help themselves?"

94
٩٤

fakub'kibū fīhā hum wal-ghāwūna

So they will be overturned into it [i.e., Hellfire], they and the deviators

95
٩٥

wajunūdu ib'līsa ajmaʿūna

And the soldiers of Iblees, all together.

96
٩٦

qālū wahum fīhā yakhtaṣimūna

They will say while they dispute therein,

97
٩٧

tal-lahi in kunnā lafī ḍalālin mubīnin

"By Allāh, we were indeed in manifest error

98
٩٨

idh nusawwīkum birabbi l-ʿālamīna

When we equated you with the Lord of the worlds.

99
٩٩

wamā aḍallanā illā l-muj'rimūna

And no one misguided us except the criminals.

100
١٠٠

famā lanā min shāfiʿīna

So now we have no intercessors