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Al-A'raf 162

Ayah 162 of 206 · Meccan

فَبَدَّلَ ٱلَّذِينَ ظَلَمُواْ مِنۡهُمۡ قَوۡلًا غَيۡرَ ٱلَّذِي قِيلَ لَهُمۡ فَأَرۡسَلۡنَا عَلَيۡهِمۡ رِجۡزٗا مِّنَ ٱلسَّمَآءِ بِمَا كَانُواْ يَظۡلِمُونَ ١٦٢

But those who wronged among them changed [the words] to a statement other than that which had been said to them. So We sent upon them a punishment from the sky for the wrong that they were doing.

Translation: Saheeh International (English)

Word by word

Each word's meaning and sound

  1. فَبَدَّلَBut changedfabaddala
  2. ٱلَّذِينَthose whoalladhīna
  3. ظَلَمُواْwrongedẓalamū
  4. مِنۡهُمۡamong themmin'hum
  5. قَوۡلًاwordqawlan
  6. غَيۡرَother thanghayra
  7. ٱلَّذِي(that) whichalladhī
  8. قِيلَwas saidqīla
  9. لَهُمۡto themlahum
  10. فَأَرۡسَلۡنَاSo We sentfa-arsalnā
  11. عَلَيۡهِمۡupon themʿalayhim
  12. رِجۡزٗاtormentrij'zan
  13. مِّنَfrommina
  14. ٱلسَّمَآءِthe skyl-samāi
  15. بِمَاbecausebimā
  16. كَانُواْthey werekānū
  17. يَظۡلِمُونَdoing wrongyaẓlimūna

Tafsir

But the wrongdoers among them changed the words they were told to say, and said ‘A grain in a rite’, instead of asking for forgiveness, as they had been instructed to; and they changed what they had been told to do by entering whilst dragging themselves on their rears, rather than entering in humility to Allah, lowering their heads. So Allah sent them a punishment from the heaven because of their disobedience.

Al-Mukhtasar in interpreting the Noble Quran