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Muhammad

The Qur’an Verse 97

Verse 590 of 6,236

Canonical reference 4.97

Arabic

Tanzil Quran Text 1.1, Uthmani

إِنَّ ٱلَّذِينَ تَوَفَّىٰهُمُ ٱلْمَلَٰٓئِكَةُ ظَالِمِىٓ أَنفُسِهِمْ قَالُوا۟ فِيمَ كُنتُمْ ۖ قَالُوا۟ كُنَّا مُسْتَضْعَفِينَ فِى ٱلْأَرْضِ ۚ قَالُوٓا۟ أَلَمْ تَكُنْ أَرْضُ ٱللَّهِ وَٰسِعَةًۭ فَتُهَاجِرُوا۟ فِيهَا ۚ فَأُو۟لَٰٓئِكَ مَأْوَىٰهُمْ جَهَنَّمُ ۖ وَسَآءَتْ مَصِيرًا

French

Muhammad Hamidullah · Le Saint Coran, traduction Muhammad Hamidullah

Ceux qui ont fait du tort à eux-mêmes, les Anges enlèveront leurs âmes en disant: «Où en étiez-vous?» (à propos de votre religion) - «Nous étions impuissants sur terre», dirent-ils. Alors les Anges diront: «La terre d'Allah n'était-elle pas assez vaste pour vous permettre d'émigrer?» Voilà bien ceux dont le refuge est l'Enfer. Et quelle mauvaise destination!

English

Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · The Meaning of the Glorious Koran (1930)

Lo! as for those whom the angels take (in death) while they wrong themselves, (the angels) will ask: In what were ye engaged? They will say: We were oppressed in the land. (The angels) will say: Was not Allah's earth spacious that ye could have migrated therein? As for such, their habitation will be hell, an evil journey's end;

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