Verse. 5693

٧٨ - ٱلنَّبَأ

78 - An-Naba'

اِنَّ جَہَنَّمَ كَانَتْ مِرْصَادًا۝۲۱۠ۙ
Inna jahannama kanat mirsadan

English

Ahmed Ali

Certainly Hell lies in wait,

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Tafseer

'Abdullāh Ibn 'Abbās / Muḥammad al-Fīrūzabādī

تفسير : lo! hell lurketh in ambush) the fire is a detention and prison,

Jalāl al-Dīn al-Maḥallī

تفسير : verily hell lurks in ambush (mirsādan, in the sense of rāsidatan or mursidatan, ‘lying in wait’)