Quran-30:54 Surah Ar-rum English Translation,Transliteration and Tafsir(Tafseer).

۞ٱللَّهُ ٱلَّذِي خَلَقَكُم مِّن ضَعۡفٖ ثُمَّ جَعَلَ مِنۢ بَعۡدِ ضَعۡفٖ قُوَّةٗ ثُمَّ جَعَلَ مِنۢ بَعۡدِ قُوَّةٖ ضَعۡفٗا وَشَيۡبَةٗۚ يَخۡلُقُ مَا يَشَآءُۚ وَهُوَ ٱلۡعَلِيمُ ٱلۡقَدِيرُ

Transliteration:( Allahul lazee khalaqa kum min du'fin summa ja'ala mim ba'di du'fin quwwatan summa ja'ala mim ba'di quwwatin du'fanw wa shaibah; yakhluqu maa yashaaa'u wa Huwal 'Aleemul Qadeer )

54. Allah is He who made you weak [120] in the beginning. Then He gave you strength [121] after such weakness. Then after strength causes weakness of old age (122). He creates what He pleases. He is the All-Knowing, the All-Powerful. (Kanzul Imaan Translation)

(54) Allāh is the one who created you from weakness, then made after weakness strength, then made after strength weakness and white hair. He creates what He wills, and He is the Knowing, the Competent. (Saheen International Translation)

Surah Ar-Rum Ayat 54 Tafsir (Commentry)



  • Tafseer-e-Naeemi (Ahmad Yaar Khan)
  • Ibn Kathir
  • Ala-Madudi
  • Shaheen International

📖 Commentary of Surah Ar-Rum – Verse 54

"Allah is He who made you weak [120] in the beginning. Then He gave you strength [121] after such weakness. Then after strength causes weakness of old age (122). He creates what He pleases. He is the All-Knowing, the All-Powerful."

✅ [120] Initial Weakness of Human Beings

This refers to the natural state of a human infant at birth, who is much weaker and less capable compared to the offspring of many animals. It is only over time that the child gains strength and development.

✅ [121] The Phase of Strength and Maturity

After infancy, Allah grants the stage of youth and adulthood, during which a person attains physical strength and intellectual ability. At this stage, humans can overcome wild animals and exert control over elements like air and water — a testimony to Allah’s magnificent creation and His praise is due.

✅ [122] The Inevitability of Old Age Weakness

Eventually, after the period of strength, old age brings physical and mental decline. Limbs weaken, memory fades, and a once strong and intelligent person may become frail and senile. This progression highlights the supreme control and knowledge of Allah, the One who creates all stages of human life as He wills.

Ibn-Kathir

54. Allah is He Who created you in weakness, then gave you strength after weakness, then after strength gave (you) weakness and grey hair. He creates what He wills. And He is the All-Knowing, the All-Powerful.


The Different Stages of Man

Here Allah points out how man passes through different stages of creation, one phase after another. He is originally created from dust, then from a Nutfah, then from a clot, then from a lump of flesh. Then he becomes bones, then the bones are clothed with flesh, then the soul is breathed into him. Then he emerges from his mother’s womb, weak and thin and powerless. Then he grows up little by little, until he becomes a child, then he reaches the stage of puberty, then he becomes a young man, which is strength after weakness. Then he starts to get older, reaching middle age, then old age and senility, weakness after strength, so he loses his resolve, power of movement and ability to fight, his hair turns grey and his characteristics, both inward and outward, begin to change. Allah says:

﴿ثُمَّ جَعَلَ مِن بَعْدِ قُوَّةٍ ضَعْفاً وَشَيْبَةً يَخْلُقُ مَا يَشَآءُ﴾

(then after strength gave (you) weakness and grey hair. He creates what He wills.) He does whatsoever He wills and controls His servants in whatever way He wants.

﴿وَهُوَ الْعَلِيمُ الْقَدِيرُ﴾

(And He is the All-Knowing, the All-Powerful.)

(29:54) They ask you to hasten the chastisement upon them although Hell encompasses the unbelievers.

Ala-Maududi

(30:54) It is Allah Who created you in a state of weakness; then after weakness He gave you strength, then after strength He made you weak and old. He creates what He pleases.[79] He is All-Knowing, All-Powerful.


79. That is, “The states of childhood and youth and old age have all been created by Him. It is dependent upon His will that He may create whomsoever He pleases weak and whomever He pleases strong. He may give death to whomsoever He pleases before attaining manhood and whomsoever He pleases in the prime of youth. He may grant a long life and yet keep in sound health whomsoever He pleases and bring to a wretched, agonizing old age after a brimful youth whomever He likes. Man may live in selfconceit and arrogance if he so likes, but he is so helpless in God’s powerful grip that he cannot change by any artifice the state that He may place him in.”

(54) Allāh is the one who created you from weakness, then made after weakness strength, then made after strength weakness and white hair. He creates what He wills, and He is the Knowing, the Competent.

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