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Quran 87:16

Surah Al-A'laa, Verse 16

Juz 30 · Page 592 · Ruku 529 · Meccan

بَلْ تُؤْثِرُونَ ٱلْحَيَوٰةَ ٱلدُّنْيَا

Word by word

بَلْ bal Nay تُؤْثِرُونَ tu'thirūna You prefer ٱلْحَيَوٰةَ l-ḥayata the life ٱلدُّنْيَا l-dun'yā (of) the world

Transliteration

Bal tu/thiroona alhayata addunya

Translations

Pickthall — Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall

But ye prefer the life of the world

Yusuf Ali — Abdullah Yusuf Ali

Nay (behold), ye prefer the life of this world;

تفسير ابن كثير — Ismail ibn Kathir

أي تقدمونها على أمر الآخرة وتبدونها على ما فيه نفعكم وصلاحكم في معاشكم ومعادكم.

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.