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Qur’an 70:16 Al-Ma'arij, verse 16

نَزَّاعَةًۭ لِّلشَّوَىٰ

A remover of exteriors.

Translation: Saheeh International. Brackets mark words added for clarity.

Surah
Al-Ma'arij (70)
Verse
16 of 44
Revealed
Makki
Juz
29
Mushaf page
569

Word by word

ArabicTransliterationMeaningRoot
نَزَّاعَةًۭnazzāʿatanA removerن ز ع
لِّلشَّوَىٰlilshawāof the skin of the headش و ي

Tap a root to see every word built from it. Root and lemma data: Quranic Arabic Corpus (Kais Dukes, University of Leeds), revised by quran-morphology, GNU GPL. All sources.

In context

The verses around 70:16 in Al-Ma'arij.

  • 70:14وَمَن فِى ٱلْأَرْضِ جَمِيعًۭا ثُمَّ يُنجِيهِAnd whoever is on earth entirely [so] then it could save him.
  • 70:15كَلَّآ ۖ إِنَّهَا لَظَىٰNo! Indeed, it is the Flame [of Hell],
  • 70:17تَدْعُوا۟ مَنْ أَدْبَرَ وَتَوَلَّىٰIt invites he who turned his back [on truth] and went away [from obedience]
  • 70:18وَجَمَعَ فَأَوْعَىٰٓAnd collected [wealth] and hoarded.

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