Surah Ya-Sin 36:8 — translation and meaning
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إِنَّا جَعَلْنَا فِي أَعْنَاقِهِمْ أَغْلَالًا فَهِيَ إِلَى الْأَذْقَانِ فَهُم مُّقْمَحُونَ
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Transliteration
Innaa ja'alnaa feee a'naaqihim aghlaalan fahiya ilal azqaani fahum muqmahoon
Translation
Indeed, We have put shackles on their necks, and they are to their chins, so they are with heads [kept] aloft.
Verse interpretation (Tafsir)
These people do not have faith nor are they guided. Their example in this is like those in whose necks iron collars that extend all the way up and whose hands are tied to their necks under their chins. As a result, they are forced to lift their heads to the sky and they are unable to lower them. These people are shackled from having faith in Allah and therefore they do not submit to it and they do not lower their heads on account of it.
Source: Al-Mukhtasar Tafsir — Tafsir Center for Quranic Studies.
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