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Qur’an 70:20 Al-Ma'arij, verse 20

إِذَا مَسَّهُ ٱلشَّرُّ جَزُوعًۭا

When evil touches him, impatient,

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

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

Word by word

ArabicTransliterationMeaningRoot
إِذَاidhāWhen
مَسَّهُmassahutouches himم س س
ٱلشَّرُّl-sharuthe evilش ر ر
جَزُوعًۭاjazūʿandistressedج ز ع

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 70:20 in Al-Ma'arij.

  • 70:18وَجَمَعَ فَأَوْعَىٰٓAnd collected [wealth] and hoarded.
  • 70:19۞ إِنَّ ٱلْإِنسَٰنَ خُلِقَ هَلُوعًاIndeed, mankind was created anxious:
  • 70:21وَإِذَا مَسَّهُ ٱلْخَيْرُ مَنُوعًاAnd when good touches him, withholding [of it],
  • 70:22إِلَّا ٱلْمُصَلِّينَExcept the observers of prayer -

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