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An-Naml 47

Ayah 47 of 93 · Meccan

قَالُواْ ٱطَّيَّرۡنَا بِكَ وَبِمَن مَّعَكَۚ قَالَ طَٰٓئِرُكُمۡ عِندَ ٱللَّهِۖ بَلۡ أَنتُمۡ قَوۡمٞ تُفۡتَنُونَ ٤٧

They said, "We consider you a bad omen, you and those with you." He said, "Your omen [i.e., fate] is with Allāh. Rather, you are a people being tested."1

Translation: Saheeh International (English)

1 Or "being tempted [by Satan]."

Word by word

Each word's meaning and sound

  1. قَالُواْThey saidqālū
  2. ٱطَّيَّرۡنَاWe consider you a bad omeniṭṭayyarnā
  3. بِكَWe consider you a bad omenbika
  4. وَبِمَنand thosewabiman
  5. مَّعَكَۚwith youmaʿaka
  6. قَالَHe saidqāla
  7. طَٰٓئِرُكُمۡYour bad omenṭāirukum
  8. عِندَ(is) withʿinda
  9. ٱللَّهِۖAllahl-lahi
  10. بَلۡNaybal
  11. أَنتُمۡyouantum
  12. قَوۡمٞ(are) a peopleqawmun
  13. تُفۡتَنُونَbeing testedtuf'tanūna

Tafsir

His people said to him, in stubbornness from the truth: “I consider you and the believers with you a bad omen”. Salih (peace be upon him) said: “The birds that you drive away due to the difficulties that which has afflicted you from what you dislike and you attribute as a bad omen is actually decreed from Allah and He has knowledge of that.

Al-Mukhtasar in interpreting the Noble Quran