Surah Ash-Shu'araa (26): Read Online and Download - English Translation
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Information About Surah Ash-Shu'araa
- Type of Surah Ash-Shu'araa: Meccan
- Number of verses in Surah Ash-Shu'araa: 227
- Order of Surah Ash-Shu'araa in Quran: 26
- Order of revelation: 47
- Surah name in English: The Poets
- Page numbers in Quran: from page 367 to 376
- Translation: Saheeh International
- Tafsir: Yusuf Ali
Surah Ash-Shu'araa
سُورَةُ الشُّعَرَاءِ
Page 367 (Verses from 1 to 19)
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Tafsir of Surah Ash-Shu'araa (Yusuf Ali: Abdullah Yusuf Ali)
English Translation
These are the verses of the clear Book.English Transliteration
Tilka ayatu alkitabi almubeeni
These are verses of the Book that makes (things) clear.
English Translation
Perhaps, [O Muhammad], you would kill yourself with grief that they will not be believers.English Transliteration
LaAAallaka bakhiAAun nafsaka alla yakoonoo mumineena
It may be thou frettest thy soul with grief, that they do not become Believers.
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If We willed, We could send down to them from the sky a sign for which their necks would remain humbled.English Transliteration
In nasha nunazzil AAalayhim mina alssamai ayatan fathallat aAAnaquhum laha khadiAAeena
If (such) were Our Will, We could send down to them from the sky a Sign, to which they would bend their necks in humility.
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And no revelation comes to them anew from the Most Merciful except that they turn away from it.English Transliteration
Wama yateehim min thikrin mina alrrahmani muhdathin illa kanoo AAanhu muAArideena
But there comes not to them a newly-revealed Message from (Allah) Most Gracious, but they turn away therefrom.
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For they have already denied, but there will come to them the news of that which they used to ridicule.English Transliteration
Faqad kaththaboo fasayateehim anbao ma kanoo bihi yastahzioona
They have indeed rejected (the Message): so they will know soon (enough) the truth of what they mocked at!
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Did they not look at the earth - how much We have produced therein from every noble kind?English Transliteration
Awalam yaraw ila alardi kam anbatna feeha min kulli zawjin kareemin
Do they not look at the earth,- how many noble things of all kinds We have produced therein?
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Indeed in that is a sign, but most of them were not to be believers.English Transliteration
Inna fee thalika laayatan wama kana aktharuhum mumineena
Verily, in this is a Sign: but most of them do not believe.
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And indeed, your Lord - He is the Exalted in Might, the Merciful.English Transliteration
Wainna rabbaka lahuwa alAAazeezu alrraheemu
And verily, thy Lord is He, the Exalted in Might, Most Merciful.
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And [mention] when your Lord called Moses, [saying], "Go to the wrongdoing people -English Transliteration
Waith nada rabbuka moosa ani iti alqawma alththalimeena
Behold, thy Lord called Moses: "Go to the people of iniquity,-
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The people of Pharaoh. Will they not fear Allah?"English Transliteration
Qawma firAAawna ala yattaqoona
"The people of the Pharaoh: will they not fear Allah?"
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He said, "My Lord, indeed I fear that they will deny meEnglish Transliteration
Qala rabbi innee akhafu an yukaththibooni
He said: "O my Lord! I do fear that they will charge me with falsehood:
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And that my breast will tighten and my tongue will not be fluent, so send for Aaron.English Transliteration
Wayadeequ sadree wala yantaliqu lisanee faarsil ila haroona
"My breast will be straitened. And my speech may not go (smoothly): so send unto Aaron.
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And they have upon me a [claim due to] sin, so I fear that they will kill me."English Transliteration
Walahum AAalayya thanbun faakhafu an yaqtulooni
"And (further), they have a charge of crime against me; and I fear they may slay me."
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[Allah] said, "No. Go both of you with Our signs; indeed, We are with you, listening.English Transliteration
Qala kalla faithhaba biayatina inna maAAakum mustamiAAoona
Allah said: "By no means! proceed then, both of you, with Our Signs; We are with you, and will listen (to your call).
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Go to Pharaoh and say, \'We are the messengers of the Lord of the worlds,English Transliteration
Fatiya firAAawna faqoola inna rasoolu rabbi alAAalameena
"So go forth, both of you, to Pharaoh, and say: 'We have been sent by the Lord and Cherisher of the worlds;
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[Commanded to say], "Send with us the Children of Israel."\'"English Transliteration
An arsil maAAana banee israeela
"'Send thou with us the Children of Israel.'"
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[Pharaoh] said, "Did we not raise you among us as a child, and you remained among us for years of your life?English Transliteration
Qala alam nurabbika feena waleedan walabithta feena min AAumurika sineena
(Pharaoh) said: "Did we not cherish thee as a child among us, and didst thou not stay in our midst many years of thy life?
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And [then] you did your deed which you did, and you were of the ungrateful."English Transliteration
WafaAAalta faAAlataka allatee faAAalta waanta mina alkafireena
"And thou didst a deed of thine which (thou knowest) thou didst, and thou art an ungrateful (wretch)!"
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