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Ar-Rum 51

Ayah 51 of 60 · Meccan

وَلَئِنۡ أَرۡسَلۡنَا رِيحٗا فَرَأَوۡهُ مُصۡفَرّٗا لَّظَلُّواْ مِنۢ بَعۡدِهِۦ يَكۡفُرُونَ ٥١

But if We should send a [bad] wind and they saw [their crops] turned yellow, they would remain thereafter disbelievers.1

Translation: Saheeh International (English)

1 Denying and ungrateful for the previous favors of Allāh.

Word by word

Each word's meaning and sound

  1. وَلَئِنۡBut ifwala-in
  2. أَرۡسَلۡنَاWe sentarsalnā
  3. رِيحٗاa windrīḥan
  4. فَرَأَوۡهُand they see itfara-awhu
  5. مُصۡفَرّٗاturn yellowmuṣ'farran
  6. لَّظَلُّواْcertainly they continuelaẓallū
  7. مِنۢafter itmin
  8. بَعۡدِهِۦafter itbaʿdihi
  9. يَكۡفُرُونَ(in) disbeliefyakfurūna

Tafsir

If we were to send upon their farms and crops a wind which would spoil them, and they were to then see their crops yellow in colour after they had previously been green, they would then begin to show ingratitude to the numerous other bounties of Allah they were given before that.

Al-Mukhtasar in interpreting the Noble Quran