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Ar-Rum 36

Ayah 36 of 60 · Meccan

وَإِذَآ أَذَقۡنَا ٱلنَّاسَ رَحۡمَةٗ فَرِحُواْ بِهَاۖ وَإِن تُصِبۡهُمۡ سَيِّئَةُۢ بِمَا قَدَّمَتۡ أَيۡدِيهِمۡ إِذَا هُمۡ يَقۡنَطُونَ ٣٦

And when We let the people taste mercy, they rejoice therein, but if evil afflicts them for what their hands have put forth, immediately they despair.

Translation: Saheeh International (English)

Word by word

Each word's meaning and sound

  1. وَإِذَآAnd whenwa-idhā
  2. أَذَقۡنَاWe cause people to tasteadhaqnā
  3. ٱلنَّاسَWe cause people to tastel-nāsa
  4. رَحۡمَةٗmercyraḥmatan
  5. فَرِحُواْthey rejoicefariḥū
  6. بِهَاۖthereinbihā
  7. وَإِنBut ifwa-in
  8. تُصِبۡهُمۡafflicts themtuṣib'hum
  9. سَيِّئَةُۢan evilsayyi-atun
  10. بِمَاfor whatbimā
  11. قَدَّمَتۡhave sent forthqaddamat
  12. أَيۡدِيهِمۡtheir handsaydīhim
  13. إِذَاbeholdidhā
  14. هُمۡTheyhum
  15. يَقۡنَطُونَdespairyaqnaṭūna

Tafsir

And when I give the people a taste of some of My bounties, i.e. health and wealth, they become happy with it; a happiness based on arrogance and pride. And if something that harms them reaches them, i.e. illness or poverty due to the sins they commit, they begin losing hope in the mercy of Allah and in the difficulty going away from them.

Al-Mukhtasar in interpreting the Noble Quran