Surah Ya-Sin, Ayah 21-40 — Word by Word
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Ya Sin
Explanations are simplified from tafsirs by Ibn Kathir, Mufti Muhammad Shafi, and Maulana Wahiduddin Khan. Spot an inaccuracy? Let us know.
ittabiʿū man lā yasalukum ajran wahum muh'tadūna
Follow those who do not ask of you [any] payment, and they are [rightly] guided.
wamā liya lā aʿbudu alladhī faṭaranī wa-ilayhi tur'jaʿūna
And why should I not worship He who created me and to whom you will be returned?
a-attakhidhu min dūnihi ālihatan in yurid'ni l-raḥmānu biḍurrin lā tugh'ni ʿannī shafāʿatuhum shayan walā yunqidhūni
Should I take other than Him [false] deities [while], if the Most Merciful intends for me some adversity, their intercession will not avail me at all, nor can they save me?
innī idhan lafī ḍalālin mubīnin
Indeed, I would then be in manifest error.
innī āmantu birabbikum fa-is'maʿūni
Indeed, I have believed in your Lord, so listen to me."
qīla ud'khuli l-janata qāla yālayta qawmī yaʿlamūna
It was said, "Enter Paradise." He said, "I wish my people could know
bimā ghafara lī rabbī wajaʿalanī mina l-muk'ramīna
Of how my Lord has forgiven me and placed me among the honored."
wamā anzalnā ʿalā qawmihi min baʿdihi min jundin mina l-samāi wamā kunnā munzilīna
And We did not send down upon his people after him any soldiers from the heaven, nor would We have done so.
in kānat illā ṣayḥatan wāḥidatan fa-idhā hum khāmidūna
It was not but one shout, and immediately they were extinguished.
yāḥasratan ʿalā l-ʿibādi mā yatīhim min rasūlin illā kānū bihi yastahziūna
How regretful for the servants. There did not come to them any messenger except that they used to ridicule him.
alam yaraw kam ahlaknā qablahum mina l-qurūni annahum ilayhim lā yarjiʿūna
Have they not considered how many generations We destroyed before them - that they to them will not return?
wa-in kullun lammā jamīʿun ladaynā muḥ'ḍarūna
And indeed, all of them will yet be brought present before Us.
waāyatun lahumu l-arḍu l-maytatu aḥyaynāhā wa-akhrajnā min'hā ḥabban famin'hu yakulūna
And a sign for them is the dead earth. We have brought it to life and brought forth from it grain, and from it they eat.
wajaʿalnā fīhā jannātin min nakhīlin wa-aʿnābin wafajjarnā fīhā mina l-ʿuyūni
And We placed therein gardens of palm trees and grapevines and caused to burst forth therefrom some springs -
liyakulū min thamarihi wamā ʿamilathu aydīhim afalā yashkurūna
That they may eat of His fruit. And their hands have not produced it, so will they not be grateful?
sub'ḥāna alladhī khalaqa l-azwāja kullahā mimmā tunbitu l-arḍu wamin anfusihim wamimmā lā yaʿlamūna
Exalted is He who created all pairs - from what the earth grows and from themselves and from that which they do not know.
waāyatun lahumu al-laylu naslakhu min'hu l-nahāra fa-idhā hum muẓ'limūna
And a sign for them is the night. We remove from it the [light of] day, so they are [left] in darkness.
wal-shamsu tajrī limus'taqarrin lahā dhālika taqdīru l-ʿazīzi l-ʿalīmi
And the sun runs [on course] toward its stopping point. That is the determination of the Exalted in Might, the Knowing.
wal-qamara qaddarnāhu manāzila ḥattā ʿāda kal-ʿur'jūni l-qadīmi
And the moon - We have determined for it phases, until it returns [appearing] like the old date stalk.
lā l-shamsu yanbaghī lahā an tud'rika l-qamara walā al-laylu sābiqu l-nahāri wakullun fī falakin yasbaḥūna
It is not allowable [i.e., possible] for the sun to reach the moon, nor does the night overtake the day, but each, in an orbit, is swimming.