Surah Az-Zumar — Verse 19

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أَفَمَنْ حَقَّ عَلَيْهِ كَلِمَةُ ٱلْعَذَابِ أَفَأَنتَ تُنقِذُ مَن فِى ٱلنَّارِ

Afaman haqqa AAalayhi kalimatu alAAathabiafaanta tunqithu man fee annar

Verse recitation

Translations of this verse 11

Saheeh International

Then, is one who has deserved the decree of punishment [to be guided]? Then, can you save one who is in the Fire?

M.A.S. Abdel Haleem

What about the one who has been sentenced to punishment? Can you [Prophet] rescue those already in the Fire?

Marmaduke Pickthall

Is he on whom the word of doom is fulfilled (to be helped), and canst thou (O Muhammad) rescue him who is in the Fire?

Abdullah Yusuf Ali

Is, then, one against whom the decree of Punishment is justly due (equal to one who eschews Evil)? Wouldst thou, then, deliver one (who is) in the Fire?

Mufti Taqi Usmani

So tell Me about the one for whom the word of punishment is destined, - is it you, then, who would save someone who is already in the Fire?

Al-Hilali & Khan

Is, then one against whom the Word of punishment is justified (equal to the one who avoids evil)? Will you (O Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم) rescue him who is in the Fire?

Abul A'la Maududi (Tafhim)

(O Prophet), can you save him (from chastisement) against whom the sentence of chastisement has become due; him who has, (as it were), already fallen into the Fire?”

Muhammad Asad — The Message of the Qur’an

On the other hand, could one on whom [God’s] sentence of suffering has been passed [be rescued by man]? Couldst thou, perchance, save one who is [already, as it were,] in the fire?