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Quran 2:51

Surah Al-Baqara, Verse 51

Juz 1 · Page 8 · Ruku 7 · Medinan

وَإِذْ وَٰعَدْنَا مُوسَىٰٓ أَرْبَعِينَ لَيْلَةً ثُمَّ ٱتَّخَذْتُمُ ٱلْعِجْلَ مِنۢ بَعْدِهِۦ وَأَنتُمْ ظَٰلِمُونَ

Word by word

وَإِذْ wa-idh And when وَٰعَدْنَا wāʿadnā We appointed مُوسَىٰٓ mūsā (for) Musa أَرْبَعِينَ arbaʿīna forty لَيْلَةًۭ laylatan nights ثُمَّ thumma Then ٱتَّخَذْتُمُ ittakhadhtumu you took ٱلْعِجْلَ l-ʿij'la the calf مِنۢ min from بَعْدِهِۦ baʿdihi after him وَأَنتُمْ wa-antum and you ظَـٰلِمُونَ ẓālimūna (were) wrongdoers

Transliteration

Wa-ith waAAadna moosaarbaAAeena laylatan thumma ittakhathtumu alAAijla minbaAAdihi waantum thalimoon

Translations

Pickthall — Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall

And when We did appoint for Moses forty nights (of solitude), and then ye chose the calf, when he had gone from you, and were wrong-doers.

Yusuf Ali — Abdullah Yusuf Ali

And remember We appointed forty nights for Moses, and in his absence ye took the calf (for worship), and ye did grievous wrong.

تفسير ابن كثير — Ismail ibn Kathir

يقول تعالى : واذكروا نعمتي عليكم في عفوي عنكم ، لما عبدتم العجل بعد ذهاب موسى لميقات ربه ، عند انقضاء أمد المواعدة ، وكانت أربعين يوما ، وهي المذكورة في الأعراف ، في قوله تعالى : ( وواعدنا موسى ثلاثين ليلة وأتممناها بعشر ) [ الأعراف : 142 ] قيل : إنها ذو القعدة بكماله وعشر من ذي الحجة ، وكان ذلك بعد خلاصهم من قوم فرعون وإنجائهم من البحر .

Arabic text: Tanzil Uthmani 1.1 — Tanzil — non-commercial redistribution with attribution.
Translation: Pickthall by Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall — Public domain.
Translation: Yusuf Ali by Abdullah Yusuf Ali — Public domain.
Commentary: تفسير ابن كثير — Public domain.
Word-by-word data via Quran Foundation. Linguistic annotation: the Quranic Arabic Corpus.