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Surah Ali ’Imran, Verse 166

سورة آل عمران، الآية ١٦٦

3:166 Juz 4 Hizb 7 Page 72 of the mushaf Medinan surah

Text of verse 3:166

وَمَآ أَصَٰبَكُمْ يَوْمَ ٱلْتَقَى ٱلْجَمْعَانِ فَبِإِذْنِ ٱللَّهِ وَلِيَعْلَمَ ٱلْمُؤْمِنِينَ ۝١٦٦

Transliteration

wamā aṣābakum yawma l-taqā l-jamʿāni fabi-idh'ni l-lahi waliyaʿlama l-mu'minīna

Translation

And what struck you on the day the two armies met [at Uḥud] was by permission of Allāh that He might make evident the [true] believers

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Verse 166 of Surah Ali ’Imran (3:166), a Medinan surah, is in juz 4, on page 72 of the mushaf. Read it in Arabic with its transliteration, translations and tafsir, and listen to it recited by 71 reciters.

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Tafsir of verse 166

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The death, wounds and defeat you suffered on the day of Uḥud, when your army and the army of the idolaters met, was by the permission and decree of Allah, with far-reaching wisdom behind it: to make it clear who truly had faith.

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Other translations of verse 166

What you suffered on the day [of ’Uhud] when the two armies met was by Allah’s permission, so that He may distinguish the [true] believers,

And what you suffered (of the disaster) on the day (of the battle of Uhud when) the two armies met, was by the leave of Allâh, in order that He might test the believers.

That which befell you, on the day when the two armies met, was by permission of Allah; that He might know the true believers;

What ye suffered on the day the two armies Met, was with the leave of Allah, in order that He might test the believers,-

And what befell you on the day when the two armies met (at Ohud) was with Allah's knowledge, and that He might know the believers.

And what afflicted you, the day the two gatherings encountered, was then by the permission of Allah and that He might know the believers.

Verse 166 word by word

  1. وَمَآ wamā And what
  2. أَصَٰبَكُمْ aṣābakum struck you ص و ب
  3. يَوْمَ yawma (on the) day ي و م
  4. ٱلْتَقَى l-taqā (when) met ل ق ي
  5. ٱلْجَمْعَانِ l-jamʿāni the two hosts ج م ع
  6. فَبِإِذْنِ fabi-idh'ni (was) by (the) permission أ ذ ن
  7. ٱللَّهِ l-lahi (of) Allah
  8. وَلِيَعْلَمَ waliyaʿlama and that He (might) make evident ع ل م
  9. ٱلْمُؤْمِنِينَ l-mu'minīna the believers أ م ن

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