Al-Qur'an Surah Al-Anbya Verse 35

Mufti Taqi Usmani

Every one has to taste death, and We test you through bad and good (situations) with a trial, and to Us you are to be returned.

Dr. Mustafa Khattab, the Clear Quran

Every soul will taste death. And We test you ˹O humanity˺ with good and evil as a trial, then to Us you will ˹all˺ be returned.

Ruwwad Translation Center

Every soul will taste death; We test you with bad and good as a trial, then to Us you will all be returned.

A. J. Arberry

Every soul shall taste of death; and We try you with evil and good for a testing, then unto Us you shall be returned.

Abdul Haleem

Every soul is certain to taste death: We test you all through the bad and the good, and to Us you will all return.

Abdul Majid Daryabadi

Every soul is going to taste of death, and We shall prove you with evil and good as a temptation; and unto Us ye shall be returned.

Abdullah Yusuf Ali

Every soul shall have a taste of death; and We test you by evil and by good by way of trial. to Us must ye return.

Abul Ala Maududi

Every living being shall taste death and We shall subject you to ill and good by way of trial, and to Us shall all of you be eventually sent back.

Ahmed Ali

Every soul will know the taste of death. We tempt you with evil and with good as a trial; and to Us you will return.

Ahmed Raza Khan

Every living being must taste death; and We test you with harm and with good – a trial; and to Us only you have to return.

Ali Quli Qarai

Every soul shall taste death, and We will test you with good and ill by way of test, and to Us you will be brought back.

Ali Ünal

Every soul (person) is bound to taste death, and We try you through the bad and the good things (of life) by way of testing (so that your real character and rank may reveal itself). In fact, you are on the way to return to Us, (to finally be brought to Our Presence).

Amatul Rahman Omar

Every soul is bound to taste of death; and We prove (worth of) you now with evil, now with good, by way of trial. And you shall be made to return to Us.

English Literal

Every self (is) tasting/experiencing the death/lifelessness, and We test you with the bad/harm and the good/generosity (as) a test , and to Us you are being returned.

Faridul Haque

Every living being must taste death; and We test you with harm and with good - a trial; and to Us only you have to return.

Hamid S. Aziz

We appointed immortality for no mortal before you. What! If you die, will they live on forever?

Hilali & Khan

Everyone is going to taste death, and We shall make a trial of you with evil and with good, and to Us you will be returned.

Maulana Mohammad Ali

And We granted abiding for ever to no mortal before thee. If thou diest, will they abide?

Mohammad Habib Shakir

Every soul must taste of death and We try you by evil and good by way of probation; and to Us you shall be brought back.

Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall

Every soul must taste of death, and We try you with evil and with good, for ordeal. And unto Us ye will be returned.

Muhammad Sarwar

Every soul has to experience the taste of death. We test you with both hardships and blessings. In the end you will all return to Us.

Qaribullah & Darwish

Every soul shall taste death. We will try you with a trial of evil and good. Then, to Us you shall be returned.

Safi-ur-Rahman al-Mubarakpuri

Everyone is going to taste death, and We shall test you with evil and with good by way of trial. And to Us you will be returned.

Wahiduddin Khan

Every soul shall taste death; We test you with both good and evil [circumstances] as a trial. To Us you shall return.

Talal Itani

Every soul will taste death. We burden you with adversity and prosperity—a test. And to Us you will be returned.

Tafsir jalalayn

Every soul shall taste death, in this world, and We will try you, We will test you, with ill and good, such as poverty and wealth, sickness and health, as an ordeal (fitnatan, an object denoting reason, in other words, for the purpose of seeing whether you will be patient and give thanks or not). And then unto Us you shall be brought back, that We may requite you.

Tafseer Ibn Kathir

So Allah says;

كُلُّ نَفْسٍ ذَايِقَةُ الْمَوْتِ

Everyone is going to taste death,

...
وَنَبْلُوكُم بِالشَّرِّ وَالْخَيْرِ فِتْنَةً

and We shall test you with evil and with good by way of trial.

Meaning, "We shall test you, sometimes with difficulties and sometimes with ease, to see who will give thanks and who will be ungrateful, who will have patience and who will despair."

Ali bin Abi Talhah reported from Ibn Abbas;

وَنَبْلُوكُم
(and We shall test you) means,

We will test you,


بِالشَّرِّ وَالْخَيْرِ فِتْنَةً
(with evil and with good by way of trial) means,

with difficulties and with times of prosperity, with health and sickness, with richness and poverty, with lawful and unlawful, obedience and sin, with guidance and misguidance.

...
وَإِلَيْنَا تُرْجَعُونَ

And to Us you will be returned.

means, and We will requite you according to your deeds