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Quran 43:54

Surah Az-Zukhruf, Verse 54

Juz 25 · Page 493 · Ruku 428 · Meccan

فَٱسْتَخَفَّ قَوْمَهُۥ فَأَطَاعُوهُ إِنَّهُمْ كَانُوا۟ قَوْمًا فَٰسِقِينَ

Word by word

فَٱسْتَخَفَّ fa-is'takhaffa So he bluffed قَوْمَهُۥ qawmahu his people فَأَطَاعُوهُ ۚ fa-aṭāʿūhu and they obeyed him إِنَّهُمْ innahum Indeed, they كَانُوا۟ kānū were قَوْمًۭا qawman a people فَـٰسِقِينَ fāsiqīna defiantly disobedient

Transliteration

Fastakhaffa qawmahu faataAAoohuinnahum kanoo qawman fasiqeen

Translations

Pickthall — Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall

Thus he persuaded his people to make light (of Moses), and they obeyed him. Lo! they were a wanton folk.

Yusuf Ali — Abdullah Yusuf Ali

Thus did he make fools of his people, and they obeyed him: truly were they a people rebellious (against Allah).

تفسير ابن كثير — Ismail ibn Kathir

( فاستخف قومه فأطاعوه ) أي : استخف عقولهم ، فدعاهم إلى الضلالة فاستجابوا له ، ( إنهم كانوا قوما فاسقين ) .

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.