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Al-Baqarah 114

Ayah 114 of 286 · Medinan

وَمَنۡ أَظۡلَمُ مِمَّن مَّنَعَ مَسَٰجِدَ ٱللَّهِ أَن يُذۡكَرَ فِيهَا ٱسۡمُهُۥ وَسَعَىٰ فِي خَرَابِهَآۚ أُوْلَٰٓئِكَ مَا كَانَ لَهُمۡ أَن يَدۡخُلُوهَآ إِلَّا خَآئِفِينَۚ لَهُمۡ فِي ٱلدُّنۡيَا خِزۡيٞ وَلَهُمۡ فِي ٱلۡأٓخِرَةِ عَذَابٌ عَظِيمٞ ١١٤

And who are more unjust than those who prevent the name of Allāh from being mentioned [i.e., praised] in His mosques and strive toward their destruction. It is not for them to enter them except in fear. For them in this world is disgrace, and they will have in the Hereafter a great punishment.

Translation: Saheeh International (English)

Word by word

Each word's meaning and sound

  1. وَمَنۡAnd whowaman
  2. أَظۡلَمُ(is) more unjustaẓlamu
  3. مِمَّنthan (one) whomimman
  4. مَّنَعَpreventsmanaʿa
  5. مَسَٰجِدَ(the) masajidmasājida
  6. ٱللَّهِ(of) Allahl-lahi
  7. أَنtoan
  8. يُذۡكَرَbe mentionedyudh'kara
  9. فِيهَاin themfīhā
  10. ٱسۡمُهُۥHis nameus'muhu
  11. وَسَعَىٰand striveswasaʿā
  12. فِيforfī
  13. خَرَابِهَآۚtheir destructionkharābihā
  14. أُوْلَٰٓئِكَThoseulāika
  15. مَاNotmā
  16. كَانَit iskāna
  17. لَهُمۡfor themlahum
  18. أَنthatan
  19. يَدۡخُلُوهَآthey enter themyadkhulūhā
  20. إِلَّاexceptillā
  21. خَآئِفِينَۚ(like) those in fearkhāifīna
  22. لَهُمۡFor themlahum
  23. فِيinfī
  24. ٱلدُّنۡيَاthe worldl-dun'yā
  25. خِزۡيٞ(is) disgracekhiz'yun
  26. وَلَهُمۡand for themwalahum
  27. فِيinfī
  28. ٱلۡأٓخِرَةِthe Hereafterl-ākhirati
  29. عَذَابٌ(is) a punishmentʿadhābun
  30. عَظِيمٞgreatʿaẓīmun

Tafsir

No one does greater wrong than those who stop the name of Allah being said in His Houses of worship, preventing the prayer and remembrance of Allah and the recitation of the Qur’ān in them, trying to destroy and ruin them, through tearing them down or stopping people from worshipping in them. Those who try to destroy them should not enter Allah’s places of worship, except fearfully and with trembling hearts, after their disbelief and having stopped people worshipping in them. They will have shame and humiliation in their life on earth at the hands of the believers, and in the Afterlife is a great torment for having stopped people from Allah’s Houses of worship.

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