Qira'at Al-A'la - 16

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87:16

بل توثرون الحياة الدنيا ١٦

بَلْ تُؤْثِرُونَ ٱلْحَيَوٰةَ ٱلدُّنْيَا ١٦

بَلۡ

تُؤۡثِرُونَ

ٱلۡحَيَوٰةَ

ٱلدُّنۡيَا

١٦

But you ˹deniers only˺ prefer the life of this world,

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ىوثرون

Readers

Abū Jaʿfar

Madinah

Ibn ʿĀmir

Damascus

Nāfiʿ

Madinah

Ḥamzah

Kufah

Ibn Kathīr

Makkah

Khalaf

Kufah

Abū ʿAmr

Basrah

al-Kisāʾī

Kufah

Yaʿqūb

Basrah

ʿĀṣim

Kufah

Readings

تُؤۡثِرُونَ

tuʾthirūna*

“Yet you prefer the life of this world”

This reading addresses the unbelievers (and others who neglect the Hereafter) directly.

يُؤۡثِرُونَ

yuʾthirūna*

“Yet they prefer the life of this world”

This reading refers to the unbelievers in the third person.

Explanation

These readings amount to the same meaning [Makki]. *NB: some pronounced these without hamzah: t/yūthirūna.

He has revealed to you ˹O Prophet˺ the Book in truth, confirming what came before it, as He revealed the Torah and the Gospel

— Dr. Mustafa Khattab, the Clear Quran

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