Surah Ya-Sin, Ayah 61-80 — 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.
wa-ani uʿ'budūnī hādhā ṣirāṭun mus'taqīmun
And that you worship [only] Me? This is a straight path.
walaqad aḍalla minkum jibillan kathīran afalam takūnū taʿqilūna
And he had already led astray from among you much of creation, so did you not use reason?
hādhihi jahannamu allatī kuntum tūʿadūna
This is the Hellfire which you were promised.
iṣ'lawhā l-yawma bimā kuntum takfurūna
[Enter to] burn therein today for what you used to deny."
al-yawma nakhtimu ʿalā afwāhihim watukallimunā aydīhim watashhadu arjuluhum bimā kānū yaksibūna
That Day, We will seal over their mouths, and their hands will speak to Us, and their feet will testify about what they used to earn.
walaw nashāu laṭamasnā ʿalā aʿyunihim fa-is'tabaqū l-ṣirāṭa fa-annā yub'ṣirūna
And if We willed, We could have obliterated their eyes, and they would race to [find] the path, and how could they see?
walaw nashāu lamasakhnāhum ʿalā makānatihim famā is'taṭāʿū muḍiyyan walā yarjiʿūna
And if We willed, We could have deformed them, [paralyzing them] in their places so they would not be able to proceed, nor could they return.
waman nuʿammir'hu nunakkis'hu fī l-khalqi afalā yaʿqilūna
And he to whom We grant long life We reverse in creation; so will they not understand?
wamā ʿallamnāhu l-shiʿ'ra wamā yanbaghī lahu in huwa illā dhik'run waqur'ānun mubīnun
And We did not give him [i.e., Prophet Muḥammad (ﷺ)] knowledge of poetry, nor is it befitting for him. It is not but a message and a clear Qur’ān
liyundhira man kāna ḥayyan wayaḥiqqa l-qawlu ʿalā l-kāfirīna
To warn whoever is alive and justify the word [i.e., decree] against the disbelievers.
awalam yaraw annā khalaqnā lahum mimmā ʿamilat aydīnā anʿāman fahum lahā mālikūna
Do they not see that We have created for them from what Our hands have made, grazing livestock, and [then] they are their owners?
wadhallalnāhā lahum famin'hā rakūbuhum wamin'hā yakulūna
And We have tamed them for them, so some of them they ride, and some of them they eat.
walahum fīhā manāfiʿu wamashāribu afalā yashkurūna
And for them therein are [other] benefits and drinks, so will they not be grateful?
wa-ittakhadhū min dūni l-lahi ālihatan laʿallahum yunṣarūna
But they have taken besides Allāh [false] deities that perhaps they would be helped.
lā yastaṭīʿūna naṣrahum wahum lahum jundun muḥ'ḍarūna
They are not able to help them, and they [themselves] are for them soldiers in attendance.
falā yaḥzunka qawluhum innā naʿlamu mā yusirrūna wamā yuʿ'linūna
So let not their speech grieve you. Indeed, We know what they conceal and what they declare.
awalam yara l-insānu annā khalaqnāhu min nuṭ'fatin fa-idhā huwa khaṣīmun mubīnun
Does man not consider that We created him from a [mere] sperm-drop - then at once he is a clear adversary?
waḍaraba lanā mathalan wanasiya khalqahu qāla man yuḥ'yī l-ʿiẓāma wahiya ramīmun
And he presents for Us an example and forgets his [own] creation. He says, "Who will give life to bones while they are disintegrated?"
qul yuḥ'yīhā alladhī ansha-ahā awwala marratin wahuwa bikulli khalqin ʿalīmun
Say, "He will give them life who produced them the first time; and He is, of all creation, Knowing."
alladhī jaʿala lakum mina l-shajari l-akhḍari nāran fa-idhā antum min'hu tūqidūna
[It is] He who made for you from the green tree, fire, and then from it you ignite.