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Ghafir 74

Ayah 74 of 85 · Meccan

مِن دُونِ ٱللَّهِۖ قَالُواْ ضَلُّواْ عَنَّا بَل لَّمۡ نَكُن نَّدۡعُواْ مِن قَبۡلُ شَيۡـٔٗاۚ كَذَٰلِكَ يُضِلُّ ٱللَّهُ ٱلۡكَٰفِرِينَ ٧٤

Other than Allāh?" They will say, "They have departed from us; rather, we did not used to invoke previously anything." Thus does Allāh put astray the disbelievers.

Translation: Saheeh International (English)

Word by word

Each word's meaning and sound

  1. مِنOther thanmin
  2. دُونِOther thandūni
  3. ٱللَّهِۖAllahl-lahi
  4. قَالُواْThey will sayqālū
  5. ضَلُّواْThey have departedḍallū
  6. عَنَّاfrom usʿannā
  7. بَلNaybal
  8. لَّمۡNotlam
  9. نَكُنwe used tonakun
  10. نَّدۡعُواْ[we] callnadʿū
  11. مِنbeforemin
  12. قَبۡلُbeforeqablu
  13. شَيۡـٔٗاۚanythingshayan
  14. كَذَٰلِكَThuskadhālika
  15. يُضِلُّAllah lets go astrayyuḍillu
  16. ٱللَّهُAllah lets go astrayl-lahu
  17. ٱلۡكَٰفِرِينَthe disbelieversl-kāfirīna

Tafsir

Besides Allah, from your idols who could not benefit or harm?” The disbelievers will say: “They have disappeared from us, so we cannot see them. In fact, we did not worship anything in the world which deserved to be worshipped”. In the way these people were led astray, Allah leads the disbelievers astray from the truth in every era and place.

Al-Mukhtasar in interpreting the Noble Quran