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Surah Al-Ahqaf, Verse 16

سورة الأحقاف، الآية ١٦

46:16 Juz 26 Hizb 51 Page 504 of the mushaf Meccan surah

Text of verse 46:16

أُو۟لَٰٓئِكَ ٱلَّذِينَ نَتَقَبَّلُ عَنْهُمْ أَحْسَنَ مَا عَمِلُوا۟ وَنَتَجَاوَزُ عَن سَيِّـَٔاتِهِمْ فِىٓ أَصْحَٰبِ ٱلْجَنَّةِ وَعْدَ ٱلصِّدْقِ ٱلَّذِى كَانُوا۟ يُوعَدُونَ ۝١٦

Transliteration

ulāika alladhīna nataqabbalu ʿanhum aḥsana mā ʿamilū wanatajāwazu ʿan sayyiātihim fī aṣḥābi l-janati waʿda l-ṣid'qi alladhī kānū yūʿadūna

Translation

Those are the ones from whom We will accept the best of what they did and overlook their misdeeds, [their being] among the companions of Paradise. [That is] the promise of truth which they had been promised.

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Verse 16 of Surah Al-Ahqaf (46:16), a Meccan surah, is in juz 26, on page 504 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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Those are the ones from whom I accept the good deeds they did and overlook their sins, so I do not seize them due to them. And they are amongst the people of Paradise. This promise they have been given is a true promise which will definitely occur.

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Other translations of verse 16

Such are those from whom We will accept their best deeds and overlook their misdeeds. They will be among the people of Paradise – a true promise that they were given.

They are those from whom We shall accept the best of their deeds and overlook their evil deeds. (They shall be) among the dwellers of Paradise - a promise of truth, which they have been promised.

Those are they from whom We accept the best of what they do, and overlook their evil deeds. (They are) among the owners of the Garden. This is the true promise which they were promised (in the world).

Such are they from whom We shall accept the best of their deeds and pass by their ill deeds: (They shall be) among the Companions of the Garden: a promise! of truth, which was made to them (in this life).

These are they from whom We accept the best of what they have done and pass over their evil deeds, among the dwellers of the garden; the promise of truth which they were promised.

Those are they from whom We will (graciously) accept the fairest of what they have done, and We will pass over their odious deeds; (they will be) among the companions (i.e., inhabitants) of the Garden-the promise of sincerity which they were promised.

Verse 16 word by word

  1. أُو۟لَٰٓئِكَ ulāika Those
  2. ٱلَّذِينَ alladhīna (are) the ones
  3. نَتَقَبَّلُ nataqabbalu We will accept ق ب ل
  4. عَنْهُمْ ʿanhum from them
  5. أَحْسَنَ aḥsana (the) best ح س ن
  6. مَا mā (of) what
  7. عَمِلُوا۟ ʿamilū they did ع م ل
  8. وَنَتَجَاوَزُ wanatajāwazu and We will overlook ج و ز
  9. عَن ʿan [from]
  10. سَيِّـَٔاتِهِمْ sayyiātihim their evil deeds س و أ
  11. فِىٓ fī among
  12. أَصْحَٰبِ aṣḥābi (the) companions ص ح ب
  13. ٱلْجَنَّةِ l-janati (of) Paradise ج ن ن
  14. وَعْدَ waʿda A promise و ع د
  15. ٱلصِّدْقِ l-ṣid'qi true ص د ق
  16. ٱلَّذِى alladhī which
  17. كَانُوا۟ kānū they were ك و ن
  18. يُوعَدُونَ yūʿadūna promised و ع د

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