Which Surah and Juz is Quran 36:19 from?

This ayah is from Surah Yaseen (Yaseen), the 36th surah of the Quran. It appears in Juz 22.

Are there hadiths related to Quran 36:19?

Yes — there are 5 hadiths related to this ayah from Sahih Muslim, Sunan Ibn Majah.

What tafsir is available for Quran 36:19?

Commentary on this ayah is available from Ibn Kathir, Ibn Kathir, Ibn Abbas, Al-Jalalayn — classical scholars of Quranic exegesis.

Ayah 18

قَالُوٓا۟ إِنَّا تَطَيَّرْنَا بِكُمْ ۖ لَئِن لَّمْ...

36:19Yaseen

Q: What does Quran 36:19 mean?

Quran 36:19 (Surah Yaseen, Ayah 19) translates to: "They said, "Your omen is with yourselves. Is it because you were reminded? Rather, you are a transgressing people.""

Q: What topics does Quran 36:19 relate to?

This ayah connects to these Quranic topics: Disbelief, Divine Signs, Transgression Wandering Blindly, Divine Punishment, Accountability.

Ayah 20

وَجَآءَ مِنْ أَقْصَا ٱلْمَدِينَةِ رَجُلٌۭ يَسْعَىٰ...

قَالُوا۟ طَٰٓئِرُكُم مَّعَكُمْ ۚ أَئِن ذُكِّرْتُم ۚ بَلْ أَنتُمْ قَوْمٌۭ مُّسْرِفُونَ

Qaaloo taaa'irukum ma'akum; a'in zukkirtum; bal antum qawmum musrifoon

They said, "Your omen is with yourselves. Is it because you were reminded? Rather, you are a transgressing people."

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Lessons from past peoples

36:19Ayah 183

12 ayahs in Yaseen are strongly about lessons from past peoples. This is one of them.

← Previous on Lessons from past peoples36:18They said, "Indeed, we consider you a bad omen. If you do not desist, we will surely stone you, and there will surely touch you, from us, a painful punishment."Next on Lessons from past peoples →36:20And there came from the farthest end of the city a man, running. He said, "O my people, follow the messengers.

Tafsir

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They said ‘May your augury of ill be with you! as punishment for your disbelief. What! Even if a-in the interrogative hamza has been added to the conditional in ‘if’ the hamza may be pronounced or elided but in both cases add an alif between it and the other one it be that you are being reminded? even if you are being admonished and made to fear God’s chastisement? the response to the conditional has been omitted that is to say ‘do you augur ill and disbelieve even if it be that you are being admonished?’ and this response constitutes the object of the interrogative which is meant rhetorically as a rebuke. Nay but you are a profligate people!’ who transgressing the bounds set by God with your practice of idolatry.

I said: Messenger of Allah, there were things we used to do in the pre-Islamic days. We used to visit Kahins, whereupon he said: Don't visit Kahins. I said: We used to take omens. He said: That is a sort of personal whim of yours, so let it not prevent you (from doing a thing).

Sunan Ibn Majah #3752It was narrated that Anas bin Malik said:Hasan

“It was said: ‘O Messenger of Allah, when should we stop enjoining what is good and forbidding what is evil?’ He said: ‘When there appears among you that which appeared among those who came before you.’ We said: ‘O Messenger of Allah, what appeared among those that came before us?’ He said: ‘Kingship given to your youth, immorality even among the old, and knowledge among the base and vile.’”

Sunan Ibn Majah #849It was narrated from Jabir bin ‘Abdullah that a man entered the mosque one Friday when the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) was delivering the sermon. He started stepping over the people’s shoulders, and the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said:Sahih

‘Sit down, for you have annoyed (people) and you are late.’”

Sunan Ibn Majah #2720It was narrated from Harith bin Bilal bin Harith, that his father said:Sahih

“I said: ‘O Messenger of Allah, do you think that this cancellation of Hajj and it being replaced with ‘Umrah is only for us, or for all people?’ The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: ‘No, it is only for us.’”

Sunan Ibn Majah #3921It was narrated from ‘Uqbah bin ‘Amr, Abu Mas’ud, that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said:

“Among the words that people learned from the earlier Prophets are: ‘If you feel no shame, then do as you wish.’”