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Qur’an 78:38 An-Naba, verse 38
يَوْمَ يَقُومُ ٱلرُّوحُ وَٱلْمَلَٰٓئِكَةُ صَفًّۭا ۖ لَّا يَتَكَلَّمُونَ إِلَّا مَنْ أَذِنَ لَهُ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنُ وَقَالَ صَوَابًۭا
The Day that the Spirit and the angels will stand in rows, they will not speak except for one whom the Most Merciful permits, and he will say what is correct.
Translation: Saheeh International. Brackets mark words added for clarity.
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- An-Naba (78)
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Word by word
| Arabic | Transliteration | Meaning | Root |
|---|---|---|---|
| يَوْمَ | yawma | (The) Day | ي و م |
| يَقُومُ | yaqūmu | will stand | ق و م |
| ٱلرُّوحُ | l-rūḥu | the Spirit | ر و ح |
| وَٱلْمَلَـٰٓئِكَةُ | wal-malāikatu | and the Angels | م ل ك |
| صَفًّۭا ۖ | ṣaffan | (in) rows | ص ف ف |
| لَّا | lā | not | |
| يَتَكَلَّمُونَ | yatakallamūna | they will speak | ك ل م |
| إِلَّا | illā | except | |
| مَنْ | man | (one) who | |
| أَذِنَ | adhina | permits | أ ذ ن |
| لَهُ | lahu | [for] him | |
| ٱلرَّحْمَـٰنُ | l-raḥmānu | the Most Gracious | ر ح م |
| وَقَالَ | waqāla | and he (will) say | ق و ل |
| صَوَابًۭا | ṣawāban | (what is) correct | ص و ب |
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 78:38 in An-Naba.
- 78:36جَزَآءًۭ مِّن رَّبِّكَ عَطَآءً حِسَابًۭا[As] reward from your Lord, [a generous] gift [made due by] account,
- 78:37رَّبِّ ٱلسَّمَٰوَٰتِ وَٱلْأَرْضِ وَمَا بَيْنَهُمَا ٱلرَّحْمَٰنِ ۖ لَا يَمْلِكُونَ مِنْهُ خِطَابًۭا[From] the Lord of the heavens and the earth and whatever is between them, the Most Merciful. They possess not from Him [authority for] speech.
- 78:39ذَٰلِكَ ٱلْيَوْمُ ٱلْحَقُّ ۖ فَمَن شَآءَ ٱتَّخَذَ إِلَىٰ رَبِّهِۦ مَـَٔابًاThat is the True Day; so he who wills may take to his Lord a [way of] return.
- 78:40إِنَّآ أَنذَرْنَٰكُمْ عَذَابًۭا قَرِيبًۭا يَوْمَ يَنظُرُ ٱلْمَرْءُ مَا قَدَّمَتْ يَدَاهُ وَيَقُولُ ٱلْكَافِرُ يَٰلَيْتَنِى كُنتُ تُرَٰبًۢاIndeed, We have warned you of a near punishment on the Day when a man will observe what his hands have put forth and the disbeliever will say, "Oh, I wish that I were dust!"
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