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Surah Adh-Dhariyat, Verse 8

سورة الذاريات، الآية ٨

51:8 Juz 26 Hizb 52 Page 521 of the mushaf Meccan surah

Text of verse 51:8

إِنَّكُمْ لَفِى قَوْلٍ مُّخْتَلِفٍ ۝٨

Transliteration

innakum lafī qawlin mukh'talifin

Translation

Indeed, you are in differing speech.¹⁵³⁶

Notes

[1536] About Prophet Muḥammad (ﷺ) and the Qur’ān.

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Verse 8 of Surah Adh-Dhariyat (51:8), a Meccan surah, is in juz 26, on page 521 of the mushaf. Read it in Arabic with its transliteration, translations and tafsir, and listen to it recited by 74 reciters.

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Tafsir of verse 8

Al-Mukhtasar

O people of Makkah, you are in a contradicting and conflicting speech. Sometimes you say: The Qur’ān is magic, at times you say poetry. And you say: Muhammad is a magician at times, and sometimes that he is a poet.

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Other translations of verse 8

Indeed, you [Makkans] have conflicting views².

Notes

[2] Concerning the Prophet (ﷺ) and the Qur’an.

Certainly, you have different ideas (about Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم and the Qur’ân).

Lo! ye, forsooth, are of various opinion (concerning the truth).

Truly ye are in a doctrine discordant,

Most surely you are at variance with each other in what you say,

Surely you (The pronoun is plural) are indeed of a different opinion, (Literally: of a different saying)

Verse 8 word by word

إِنَّكُمْ innakum Indeed, you
لَفِى lafī (are) surely in
قَوْلٍ qawlin a speech ق و ل
مُّخْتَلِفٍ mukh'talifin differing خ ل ف

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