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Quran 21:58

Surah Al-Anbiyaa, Verse 58

Juz 17 · Page 327 · Ruku 282 · Meccan

فَجَعَلَهُمْ جُذَٰذًا إِلَّا كَبِيرًا لَّهُمْ لَعَلَّهُمْ إِلَيْهِ يَرْجِعُونَ

Word by word

فَجَعَلَهُمْ fajaʿalahum So he made them جُذَٰذًا judhādhan (into) pieces إِلَّا illā except كَبِيرًۭا kabīran a large (one) لَّهُمْ lahum of them لَعَلَّهُمْ laʿallahum so that they may إِلَيْهِ ilayhi to it يَرْجِعُونَ yarjiʿūna return

Transliteration

FajaAAalahum juthathan illakabeeran lahum laAAallahum ilayhi yarjiAAoon

Translations

Pickthall — Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall

Then he reduced them to fragments, all save the chief of them, that haply they might have recourse to it.

Yusuf Ali — Abdullah Yusuf Ali

So he broke them to pieces, (all) but the biggest of them, that they might turn (and address themselves) to it.

تفسير ابن كثير — Ismail ibn Kathir

وقوله : ( فجعلهم جذاذا ) أي : حطاما كسرها كلها ( إلا كبيرا لهم ) يعني : إلا الصنم الكبير عندهم كما قال : ( فراغ عليهم ضربا باليمين ) [ الصافات : 93 ] .

وقوله : ( لعلهم إليه يرجعون ) ذكروا أنه وضع القدوم في يد كبيرهم ، لعلهم يعتقدون أنه هو الذي غار لنفسه ، وأنف أن تعبد معه هذه الأصنام الصغار ، فكسرها .

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.