سورة المدَّثِّر
Surah Al-Muddaththir 74:33
One Endowed with Excellent Capabilities · Verse 33 of 56
وَاللَّيْلِ إِذْ أَدْبَرَ
Abdul Mannan Omar
And also the night when it departs,
Abdullah Yusuf Ali
And by the Night as it retreateth,
Ahmed Ali
And the night when on the wane,
12 more translations
Ali Unal
And by the night when it retreats,
Daryabadi
By the night when it with draweth.
Faridul Haque
And by oath of the night when it turns back.
Maulana Muhammad Ali
And the night when it departs!
Maulvi Sher Ali
And by the night when it departs,
Muhammad Asad
Consider the night when it departs,
Muhammad Musin Khan
And by the night when it withdraws,
Muhammad Pickthall
And the night when it withdraweth
Muhammad Sarwar
by the retreating night,
Muhammed ali Shakir
And the night when it departs,
Rashad Khalifa
And the night as it passes.
Shabbir Ahmed
And the Night when it departs.
Commentary 74:32-34 In these three verses there is the earliest Qur’ânic instance of the particle waو used in the sense of an oath-like assertion. A call to witness is…
On 74:32–34
كَلَّا وَالْقَمَرِ﴿٣٢﴾ وَاللَّيْلِ إِذْ أَدْبَرَ﴿٣٣﴾ وَالصُّبْحِ إِذَا أَسْفَرَ
74:32-34 In these three verses there is the earliest Qur’ânic instance of the particle waو used in the sense of an oath-like assertion. A call to witness is meant to give weight to a subsequently stated truth or the evidence of the truth. Here the truth to be stressed is that of the changing phases of the moon and the alternation of night and day, which is the outcome of Allâh’s given natural laws, so the sinners suffering in the Hereafter is but a natural outcome of his deliberate negligence of those above-mentioned nineteen qualities.