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Sūra 26: Shu‘arāa, or The Poets

Section 1 (1-9)

1. Ta-seen-meem

1. Ta. Sin. Mim.


2. Tilka ayatu alkitabi almubeeni

2. These are verses of the Book that makes (things) clear.


3. LaAAallaka bakhiAAun nafsaka alla yakoonoo mu/mineena

3. It may be thou frettest thy soul with grief, that they do not become Believers.


4. In nasha/ nunazzil AAalayhim mina alssama-i ayatan fathallat aAAnaquhum laha khadiAAeena

4. 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.


5. Wama ya/teehim min thikrin mina alrrahmani muhdathin illa kanoo AAanhu muAArideena

5. But there comes not to them a newly-revealed Message from ((Allah)) Most Gracious, but they turn away therefrom.


6. Faqad kaththaboo fasaya/teehim anbao ma kanoo bihi yastahzi-oona

6. They have indeed rejected (the Message): so they will know soon (enough) the truth of what they mocked at!


7. Awa lam yaraw ila al-ardi kam anbatna feeha min kulli zawjin kareemin

7. Do they not look at the earth,--how many noble things of all kinds We have produced therein?


8. Inna fee thalika laayatan wama kana aktharuhum mu/mineena

8. Verily, in this is a Sign: but most of them do not believe.


9. Wa-inna rabbaka lahuwa alAAazeezu alrraheemu

9. And verily, thy Lord is He, the Exalted in Might, Most Merciful.


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