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Surah Al-A’la, Verse 18

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87:18 Juz 30 Hizb 60 Page 592 of the mushaf Meccan surah

Text of verse 87:18

إِنَّ هَٰذَا لَفِى ٱلصُّحُفِ ٱلْأُولَىٰ ۝١٨

Transliteration

inna hādhā lafī l-ṣuḥufi l-ūlā

Translation

Indeed, this is in the former scriptures,

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Verse 18 of Surah Al-A’la (87:18), a Meccan surah, is in juz 30, on page 592 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 18

Al-Mukhtasar

These instructions and stories that I mentioned to you are in the scriptures revealed before you.

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Other translations of verse 18

Indeed, this was in the earlier Scriptures,

Verily, this is in the former Scriptures -

Lo! This is in the former scrolls.

And this is in the Books of the earliest (Revelation),-

Most surely this is in the earlier scriptures,

Surely this is in the earliest Scrolls,

Verse 18 word by word

  1. إِنَّ inna Indeed
  2. هَٰذَا hādhā this
  3. لَفِى lafī surely (is) in
  4. ٱلصُّحُفِ l-ṣuḥufi the Scriptures ص ح ف
  5. ٱلْأُولَىٰ l-ūlā [the] former أ و ل

Verses related to verse 18

Cited by Ibn Kathir in his explanation of this verse

  • An-Najm 53:36–42

    أَمْ لَمْ يُنَبَّأْ بِمَا فِى صُحُفِ مُوسَىٰ …

    Or has he not been informed of what was in the scriptures of Moses …

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