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Quran 23:115

Surah Al-Muminoon, Verse 115

Juz 18 · Page 349 · Ruku 300 · Meccan

أَفَحَسِبْتُمْ أَنَّمَا خَلَقْنَٰكُمْ عَبَثًا وَأَنَّكُمْ إِلَيْنَا لَا تُرْجَعُونَ

Word by word

أَفَحَسِبْتُمْ afaḥasib'tum Then did you think أَنَّمَا annamā that خَلَقْنَـٰكُمْ khalaqnākum We created you عَبَثًۭا ʿabathan uselessly وَأَنَّكُمْ wa-annakum and that you إِلَيْنَا ilaynā to Us لَا lā not تُرْجَعُونَ tur'jaʿūna will be returned

Transliteration

Afahasibtum annama khalaqnakumAAabathan waannakum ilayna la turjaAAoon

Translations

Pickthall — Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall

Deemed ye then that We had created you for naught, and that ye would not be returned unto Us?

Yusuf Ali — Abdullah Yusuf Ali

"Did ye then think that We had created you in jest, and that ye would not be brought back to Us (for account)?"

تفسير ابن كثير — Ismail ibn Kathir

وقوله : ( أفحسبتم أنما خلقناكم عبثا ) أي : أفظننتم أنكم مخلوقون عبثا بلا قصد ولا إرادة منكم ولا حكمة لنا ، ( وأنكم إلينا لا ترجعون ) أي : لا تعودون في الدار الآخرة ، كما قال : ( أيحسب الإنسان أن يترك سدى ) [ القيامة : 36 ] ، يعني هملا .

Arabic text: Tanzil Uthmani 1.1 — Tanzil — non-commercial redistribution with attribution.
Translation: Pickthall by Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall — Public domain.
Translation: Yusuf Ali by Abdullah Yusuf Ali — Public domain.
Commentary: تفسير ابن كثير — Public domain.
Word-by-word data via Quran Foundation. Linguistic annotation: the Quranic Arabic Corpus.