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Qur’an 72:17 Al-Jinn, verse 17

لِّنَفْتِنَهُمْ فِيهِ ۚ وَمَن يُعْرِضْ عَن ذِكْرِ رَبِّهِۦ يَسْلُكْهُ عَذَابًۭا صَعَدًۭا

So We might test them therein. And whoever turns away from the remembrance of his Lord He will put into arduous punishment.

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

Surah
Al-Jinn (72)
Verse
17 of 28
Revealed
Makki
Juz
29
Mushaf page
573

Word by word

ArabicTransliterationMeaningRoot
لِّنَفْتِنَهُمْlinaftinahumThat We might test themف ت ن
فِيهِ ۚfīhitherein
وَمَنwamanAnd whoever
يُعْرِضْyuʿ'riḍturns awayع ر ض
عَنʿanfrom
ذِكْرِdhik'rithe Remembranceذ ك ر
رَبِّهِۦrabbihi(of) his Lordر ب ب
يَسْلُكْهُyasluk'huHe will make him enterس ل ك
عَذَابًۭاʿadhābana punishmentع ذ ب
صَعَدًۭاṣaʿadansevereص ع د

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 72:17 in Al-Jinn.

  • 72:15وَأَمَّا ٱلْقَٰسِطُونَ فَكَانُوا۟ لِجَهَنَّمَ حَطَبًۭاBut as for the unjust, they will be, for Hell, firewood.'
  • 72:16وَأَلَّوِ ٱسْتَقَٰمُوا۟ عَلَى ٱلطَّرِيقَةِ لَأَسْقَيْنَٰهُم مَّآءً غَدَقًۭاAnd [Allah revealed] that if they had remained straight on the way, We would have given them abundant provision
  • 72:18وَأَنَّ ٱلْمَسَٰجِدَ لِلَّهِ فَلَا تَدْعُوا۟ مَعَ ٱللَّهِ أَحَدًۭاAnd [He revealed] that the masjids are for Allah, so do not invoke with Allah anyone.
  • 72:19وَأَنَّهُۥ لَمَّا قَامَ عَبْدُ ٱللَّهِ يَدْعُوهُ كَادُوا۟ يَكُونُونَ عَلَيْهِ لِبَدًۭاAnd that when the Servant of Allah stood up supplicating Him, they almost became about him a compacted mass."

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