# 41. Surah Fussilat, Verse 20

- **Surah:** 41. Surah Fussilat (Explained in detail) — سورة فصلت
- **Verse:** 20 / 54 · **Juz:** 24 · **Mushaf page:** 477
- **Source:** https://quran.so/surah-fussilat/verse-20

## Arabic

حَتّٰٓى اِذَا مَا جَٓاؤُ۫هَا شَهِدَ عَلَيْهِمْ سَمْعُهُمْ وَاَبْصَارُهُمْ وَجُلُودُهُمْ بِمَا كَانُوا يَعْمَلُونَ

## Transcription

Hatta itha ma jaoohashahida AAalayhim samAAuhum waabsaruhum wajulooduhum bimakanoo yaAAmaloon

## Translations

### Aisha Bewley

when they reach it, their hearing, sight and skin will testify against them concerning what they did.

### Progressive Muslims

When they come to it, their own hearing, eyes, and skins will bear witness to everything they had done.

### Shabbir Ahmed

Till, when they reach it, their hearing and their sight and their skins will bear witness against them, about all they had been doing.

### Sam Gerrans — The Qur'an: A Complete Revelation

When they have reached it, their hearing and their sight and their skins will bear witness against them as to what they did.

### The Monotheist Group — The Quran: A Monotheist Translation

When they come to it, their own hearing, eyes, and skins will bear witness to everything they had done.

### Rashad Khalifa — The Final Testament

Once they get there, their own hearing, eyes, and skins will bear witness to everything they had done.

### Mohamed Ahmed - Samira

So that when they reach it their ears and eyes and persons will testify to what they did.

### Sahih International — (Umm Muhammad, Mary Kennedy, Amatullah Bantley)

Until, when they reach it, their hearing and their eyes and their skins will testify against them of what they used to do.

### Muhammad Asad

till, when they come close to it, their hearing and their sight and their [very] skins will bear witness against them, speaking of what they were doing [on earth].

### Marmaduke Pickthall

Till, when they reach it, their ears and their eyes and their skins testify against them as to what they used to do.

### Abul A'la Maududi — Tafhim commentary

and when all have arrived, their ears, their eyes, and their skins shall bear witness against them, stating all that they had done in the life of the world.[1]

_Footnotes_
- [1] The explanation of this given in the Hadith is that when a stubborn culprit will go on denying his crimes, and will even belie all the witnesses, then the limbs of his body will bear the witness, one after the other, by the command of Allah, and will tell what offenses he had committed through them. This thing has been reported by Anas, Abu Musa Ashari, Abu Said Khudri and Ibn Abbas from the Prophet (peace be upon him), and traditionists like Muslim, Nasai, Ibn Jarir, Ibn Abi Hatim, Bazzar and others have related these in their books. (For further explanation, see(E.N. 55 of Surah YaSeen).

### Abdel Khalek Himmat — Al- Muntakhab

And when they have all reached the intended end, there and then shall their senses: hearing, sight and touch or skin bear witness to their deeds of iniquity.

### Bijan Moeinian

Their own ears, eyes and skins will testify against what they have been doing in this world [after all who can deny the video of his own actions?]

### Al-Hilali & Khan

Till, when they reach it (Hell-fire), their hearing (ears) and their eyes, and their skins will testify against them as to what they used to do.

### Abdullah Yusuf Ali

At length, when they reach the (Fire), their hearing, their sight, and their skins will bear witness against them, as to (all) their deeds.

### Mustafa Khattab — The Clear Quran

When they reach it, their ears, eyes, and skin will testify against what they used to do.[1]

### Taqi Usmani

until when they will come to it, their ears and their eyes and their skins will testify against them about what they used to do.

### Abdul Haleem

their ears, eyes, and skins will, when they reach it, testify against them for their misdeeds.

### Arthur John Arberry

till when they are come to it, their hearing, their eyes and their skins bear witness against them concerning what they have been doing,

### E. Henry Palmer

until when they come to it, their hearing and their eyesight and their skins shall bear witness against them of that which they have done.

### Hamid S. Aziz

Until when they come to it, their ears and their eyes and their skins shall bear witness against them as to what they did.

### Mahmoud Ghali

Till, just when they come to it, their hearing, and their beholdings, (i. e., eyesight (s) and their skins testify against them concerning whatever they were doing.

### George Sale

until, when they shall arrive thereat their ears, and their eyes, and their skins shall bear witness against them of that which they shall have wrought.

### Syed Vickar Ahamed

At length, when they reach the (Fire), their hearing, their sight, and their skins will speak up against them, as to (all) their actions.

### Amatul Rahman Omar

Till, when they all reach it (- the Hell) their hearing and their eyes and their skins will be (testifying to and) bearing witness against them as to their (mis)deeds.

### Ali Quli Qarai

When they come to it, their hearing will bear witness against them and their sight and their skins concerning what they used to do.

### Ahmed Hulusi — Türkçe Kur'an Çözümü

(Allah'ın düşmanları bilinçler) oraya geldiklerinde, onların sem'leri (işitme hassaları), basarları (görme hassaları) ve derileri (altındaki tüm bedenleri), tüm yaptıklarıyla onların aleyhine olarak şahitlik etti.

### Ali Bulaç — Kur'an-ı Kerim ve Türkçe Anlamı

Sonunda oraya geldikleri zaman, işitme, görme (duyuları) ve derileri kendi aleyhlerine şahitlik edecektir.

### Bayraktar Bayraklı — Yeni Bir Anlayışın Işığında Kur'an Meali

Oraya geldiklerinde kulakları, gözleri ve derileri, yaptıkları amellere karşı onların aleyhine şahitlik ederler.

### Diyanet İşleri — Kur'an-ı Kerim Türkçe Meali

Nihayet cehenneme vardıklarında, kulakları, gözleri ve derileri, yapmış oldukları işler hakkında, kendileri aleyhine şahitlik ederler.

### Elmalılı Hamdi Yazır — Kur'an-ı Kerim ve Yüce Meali

Hatta ona vardıklarında aleyhlerine kulakları ve gözleri ve derileri şehadet eder: neler yapıyor idiyseler.

### Elmalılı (sadeleştirilmiş)

Hatta ona vardıklarında kulakları, gözleri ve derileri neler yaptıkları konusunda aleyhlerine şahitlik ederler.

### Gültekin Onan

Sonunda oraya geldikleri zaman, işitme, görme (duyuları) ve derileri kendi aleyhlerine şahitlik edecektir.

### Hasan Basri Çantay — Kur'an-ı Hakim ve Meal-i Kerim

Nihayet oraya geldikleri zaman onlar ne yapıyor idiyseler, kulakları, gözleri, derileri kendilerinin aleyhinde şahidlik edecekdir.

### İbni Kesir

Nihayet oraya varınca; kulakları, gözleri ve derileri yapar oldukları şeye aleyhlerinde şehadet ederler.

### Muhammed Esed — Kur'an Mesajı

ve onlar (ateşe) yaklaştıklarında, kulakları, gözleri ve derileri onlara karşı tanıklık yapacak ve onların (yeryüzünde) yaptıklarını anlatacaklar.

### Şaban Piriş — Kur'an-ı Kerim Türkçe Anlamı

Oraya vardıkları zaman, kulakları, gözleri ve derileri, onların yaptıklarına şahitlik edecektir.

### Süleyman Ateş — Kur'an-ı Kerim ve Yüce Meali

Nihayet oraya vardıklarında kulakları, gözleri ve derileri, yaptıkları işler hakkında aleyhlerine şahidlik ettiler.

### Yaşar Nuri Öztürk — Kur'an-ı Kerim Meali

Nihayet, oraya geldiklerinde kulakları, gözleri, derileri, yapıp-ettikleri hakkında onlar aleyhine tanıklık edecektir.

### Mustafa İslamoğlu — Hayat Kitabı Kur’an

hatta ateşe vardıklarında, kulakları, gözleri ve derileri yapa geldikleri şeyler sebebiyle onlar aleyhine şahitlik eder.

### Erhan Aktaş (Eski Baskı) — Kerim Kur'an

Nihayet oraya geldikleri zaman, yapmış oldukları şeylere; işitme, görme duyuları ve bedenleri kendi aleyhlerine tanıklık ederler.

### Ali Rıza Safa — Kur'an-ı Kerim Gerçek

Sonunda oraya geldiklerinde, kulakları, gözleri ve derileri, yaptıkları edimler için kendilerine karşı tanıklık edecektir.

### Süleymaniye Vakfı (Eski Baskı) — Süleymaniye Vakfı Meali

Ateş için bir araya getirilince kulakları, gözleri ve derileri, yapıp ettikleriyle aleyhlerinde şahitlik edecektir.

### Mehmet Okuyan — Kur’an Meal-Tefsir

Sonunda oraya geldikleri zaman, işitme (duyu)ları, gözleri ve derileri işledikleri şeylerle ilgili olarak onların aleyhine şahitlik edecektir.[1]

_Footnotes_
- [1] Benzer mesajlar: İsrâ 17:36; Nûr 24:24; Yâsîn 36:65.

### Erhan Aktaş (10. Baskı) — Kerim Kur'an

Nihayet oraya geldikleri zaman, yapmış oldukları şeylere; işitme, görme duyuları ve bedenleri kendi aleyhlerine tanıklık ederler.

### Erhan Aktaş — Kerim Kur'an

Nihayet oraya geldikleri zaman, yapmış oldukları şeylere; işitme, görme duyuları ve bedenleri kendi aleyhlerine tanıklık ederler.

### Süleymaniye Vakfı — Süleymaniye Vakfı Meali

Oraya geldiklerinde kulakları, gözleri ve derileri, yapıp ettikleri şeyler hakkında onların aleyhine şahitlik edecektir[1].

_Footnotes_
- [1] [Nur 24/24](https://quran.so/24/24)-[25,](https://quran.so/24/25) [Yasin 36/65.](https://quran.so/36/65)

## Words

| # | word | meaning | root |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | حَتَّىٰٓ — ḥattā | Until | — |
| 2 | إِذَا — idhā | when | — |
| 3 | مَا — mā | when | — |
| 4 | جَآءُوهَا — jāūhā | they come to it | جيا — Cim-Ye-Elif |
| 5 | شَهِدَ — shahida | (will) testify | شهد — Şin-he-Dal |
| 6 | عَلَيْهِمْ — ʿalayhim | against them | — |
| 7 | سَمْعُهُمْ — samʿuhum | their hearing | سمع — Sin-Mim-Ayn |
| 8 | وَأَبْصَـٰرُهُمْ — wa-abṣāruhum | and their sight | بصر — Be-Sad-Ra |
| 9 | وَجُلُودُهُم — wajulūduhum | and their skins | جلد — Cim-Lam-Dal |
| 10 | بِمَا — bimā | (as) to what | — |
| 11 | كَانُوا۟ — kānū | they used to | كون — Kef-Vav-Nun |
| 12 | يَعْمَلُونَ — yaʿmalūna | do | عمل — Ayn-Mim-Lam |

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