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Quran 7:168

Surah Al-A'raaf, Verse 168

Juz 9 · Page 172 · Ruku 142 · Meccan

وَقَطَّعْنَٰهُمْ فِى ٱلْأَرْضِ أُمَمًا مِّنْهُمُ ٱلصَّٰلِحُونَ وَمِنْهُمْ دُونَ ذَٰلِكَ وَبَلَوْنَٰهُم بِٱلْحَسَنَٰتِ وَٱلسَّيِّـَٔاتِ لَعَلَّهُمْ يَرْجِعُونَ

Word by word

وَقَطَّعْنَـٰهُمْ waqaṭṭaʿnāhum And We divided them فِى fī in ٱلْأَرْضِ l-arḍi the earth أُمَمًۭا ۖ umaman (as) nations مِّنْهُمُ min'humu Among them ٱلصَّـٰلِحُونَ l-ṣāliḥūna (are) the righteous وَمِنْهُمْ wamin'hum and among them دُونَ dūna (are) other than ذَٰلِكَ ۖ dhālika that وَبَلَوْنَـٰهُم wabalawnāhum And We tested them بِٱلْحَسَنَـٰتِ bil-ḥasanāti with the good وَٱلسَّيِّـَٔاتِ wal-sayiāti and the bad لَعَلَّهُمْ laʿallahum so that they may يَرْجِعُونَ yarjiʿūna return

Transliteration

WaqattaAAnahum fee al-ardiomaman minhumu assalihoona waminhum doona thalikawabalawnahum bilhasanati wassayyi-atilaAAallahum yarjiAAoon

Translations

Pickthall — Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall

And We have sundered them in the earth as (separate) nations. Some of them are righteous, and some far from that. And We have tried them with good things and evil things that haply they might return.

Yusuf Ali — Abdullah Yusuf Ali

We broke them up into sections on this earth. There are among them some that are the righteous, and some that are the opposite. We have tried them with both prosperity and adversity: In order that they might turn (to us).

تفسير ابن كثير — Ismail ibn Kathir

يذكر تعالى أنه فرقهم في الأرض أمما ، أي : طوائف وفرقا ، كما قال [ تعالى ] ( وقلنا من بعده لبني إسرائيل اسكنوا الأرض فإذا جاء وعد الآخرة جئنا بكم لفيفا ) [ الإسراء : 104 ]

( منهم الصالحون ومنهم دون ذلك ) أي : فيهم الصالح وغير ذلك ، كما قالت الجن : ( وأنا منا الصالحون ومنا دون ذلك كنا طرائق قددا ) [ الجن : 11 ] ، ( وبلوناهم ) أي : اختبرناهم ( بالحسنات والسيئات ) أي : بالرخاء والشدة ، والرغبة والرهبة ، والعافية والبلاء ، ( لعلهم يرجعون )

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.