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At-Tur 44

Ayah 44 of 49 · Meccan

وَإِن يَرَوۡاْ كِسۡفٗا مِّنَ ٱلسَّمَآءِ سَاقِطٗا يَقُولُواْ سَحَابٞ مَّرۡكُومٞ ٤٤

And if they were to see a fragment from the sky falling,1 they would say, "[It is merely] clouds heaped up."

Translation: Saheeh International (English)

1 Marking the onset of Allāh's punishment, as they had requested.

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Word by word

Each word's meaning and sound

  1. وَإِنAnd ifwa-in
  2. يَرَوۡاْthey were to seeyaraw
  3. كِسۡفٗاa portionkis'fan
  4. مِّنَfrommina
  5. ٱلسَّمَآءِthe skyl-samāi
  6. سَاقِطٗاfallingsāqiṭan
  7. يَقُولُواْthey will sayyaqūlū
  8. سَحَابٞCloudssaḥābun
  9. مَّرۡكُومٞheaped upmarkūmun

Tafsir

And if they see a piece of the sky falling, they will say: “This is a cloud which is piled up on each other as usual”. So they do not take heed or believe.

Al-Mukhtasar in interpreting the Noble Quran