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Al-Anbya 44

Ayah 44 of 112 · Meccan

بَلۡ مَتَّعۡنَا هَٰٓؤُلَآءِ وَءَابَآءَهُمۡ حَتَّىٰ طَالَ عَلَيۡهِمُ ٱلۡعُمُرُۗ أَفَلَا يَرَوۡنَ أَنَّا نَأۡتِي ٱلۡأَرۡضَ نَنقُصُهَا مِنۡ أَطۡرَافِهَآۚ أَفَهُمُ ٱلۡغَٰلِبُونَ ٤٤

But, [on the contrary], We have provided good things for these [disbelievers] and their fathers until life was prolonged for them. Then do they not see that We set upon the land, reducing it from its borders?1 Is it they who will overcome?

Translation: Saheeh International (English)

1 See footnote to 13:41.

Word by word

Each word's meaning and sound

  1. بَلۡNaybal
  2. مَتَّعۡنَاWe gave provisionmattaʿnā
  3. هَٰٓؤُلَآءِ(to) thesehāulāi
  4. وَءَابَآءَهُمۡand their fatherswaābāahum
  5. حَتَّىٰuntilḥattā
  6. طَالَgrew longṭāla
  7. عَلَيۡهِمُfor themʿalayhimu
  8. ٱلۡعُمُرُۗthe lifel-ʿumuru
  9. أَفَلَاThen do notafalā
  10. يَرَوۡنَthey seeyarawna
  11. أَنَّاthat Weannā
  12. نَأۡتِيWe comenatī
  13. ٱلۡأَرۡضَ(to) the landl-arḍa
  14. نَنقُصُهَاWe reduce itnanquṣuhā
  15. مِنۡfrommin
  16. أَطۡرَافِهَآۚits bordersaṭrāfihā
  17. أَفَهُمُSo is (it) theyafahumu
  18. ٱلۡغَٰلِبُونَ(who will be) overcomingl-ghālibūna

Tafsir

Rather, I have supplied these disbelievers and their forefathers with all My blessings I conferred upon them, so that as time passes, they become blinded by them and stand firm upon their disbelief, gradually leading themselves into destruction. Do these people, deluded by My blessings and hastily seeking My punishment, not realise that I am narrowing the earth down from all sides, by My influence over the people and power over them? Do they not take lesson from that, lest the same does not happen to them? These people will not be victorious; they shall be beaten.

Al-Mukhtasar in interpreting the Noble Quran