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Al-A'raf 39

Ayah 39 of 206 · Meccan

وَقَالَتۡ أُولَىٰهُمۡ لِأُخۡرَىٰهُمۡ فَمَا كَانَ لَكُمۡ عَلَيۡنَا مِن فَضۡلٖ فَذُوقُواْ ٱلۡعَذَابَ بِمَا كُنتُمۡ تَكۡسِبُونَ ٣٩

And the first of them will say to the last of them, "Then you had not any favor over us, so taste the punishment for what you used to earn."

Translation: Saheeh International (English)

Word by word

Each word's meaning and sound

  1. وَقَالَتۡAnd (will) saywaqālat
  2. أُولَىٰهُمۡ(the) first of themūlāhum
  3. لِأُخۡرَىٰهُمۡto (the) last of themli-ukh'rāhum
  4. فَمَاThen notfamā
  5. كَانَiskāna
  6. لَكُمۡfor youlakum
  7. عَلَيۡنَاupon usʿalaynā
  8. مِنanymin
  9. فَضۡلٖsuperiorityfaḍlin
  10. فَذُوقُواْso tastefadhūqū
  11. ٱلۡعَذَابَthe punishmentl-ʿadhāba
  12. بِمَاfor whatbimā
  13. كُنتُمۡyou used tokuntum
  14. تَكۡسِبُونَearntaksibūna

Tafsir

The leaders and chiefs will exclaim: 'You do not have, O followers, over us any preference, therefore deserving any lightening of the punishment, as it is the result of your own actions. You do not have any excuse for having followed what was false. So taste then, O followers, the punishment just as we taste it, because of what you earned through your own disbelief and disobedience.

Al-Mukhtasar in interpreting the Noble Quran