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Ar-Ra'd 42

Ayah 42 of 43 · Medinan

وَقَدۡ مَكَرَ ٱلَّذِينَ مِن قَبۡلِهِمۡ فَلِلَّهِ ٱلۡمَكۡرُ جَمِيعٗاۖ يَعۡلَمُ مَا تَكۡسِبُ كُلُّ نَفۡسٖۗ وَسَيَعۡلَمُ ٱلۡكُفَّٰرُ لِمَنۡ عُقۡبَى ٱلدَّارِ ٤٢

And those before them had plotted, but to Allāh belongs the plan entirely. He knows what every soul earns, and the disbelievers will know for whom is the final home.

Translation: Saheeh International (English)

Word by word

Each word's meaning and sound

  1. وَقَدۡAnd certainlywaqad
  2. مَكَرَplottedmakara
  3. ٱلَّذِينَthose whoalladhīna
  4. مِن(were) frommin
  5. قَبۡلِهِمۡbefore themqablihim
  6. فَلِلَّهِbut for Allahfalillahi
  7. ٱلۡمَكۡرُ(is) the plotl-makru
  8. جَمِيعٗاۖalljamīʿan
  9. يَعۡلَمُHe knowsyaʿlamu
  10. مَاwhatmā
  11. تَكۡسِبُearnstaksibu
  12. كُلُّeverykullu
  13. نَفۡسٖۗsoulnafsin
  14. وَسَيَعۡلَمُand will knowwasayaʿlamu
  15. ٱلۡكُفَّٰرُthe disbelieversl-kufāru
  16. لِمَنۡfor whomliman
  17. عُقۡبَى(is) the finalʿuq'bā
  18. ٱلدَّارِthe homel-dāri

Tafsir

The previous communities had plotted and devised schemes against their prophets and they rejected what they brought to them. What did they manage to do by such schemes? Nothing! This is because the effective plan is only that of Allah and no other. He, may He be glorified, is the One Who knows what their souls earn and He will recompense them for it. Then they will know how wrong they were in not having faith in Allah, and how right the believers were as they would have acquired Paradise and the best outcome.

Al-Mukhtasar in interpreting the Noble Quran