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Surah Al-An’am, Verse 117

سورة الأنعام، الآية ١١٧

6:117 Juz 8 Hizb 15 Page 142 of the mushaf Meccan surah

Text of verse 6:117

إِنَّ رَبَّكَ هُوَ أَعْلَمُ مَن يَضِلُّ عَن سَبِيلِهِۦ وَهُوَ أَعْلَمُ بِٱلْمُهْتَدِينَ ۝١١٧

Transliteration

inna rabbaka huwa aʿlamu man yaḍillu ʿan sabīlihi wahuwa aʿlamu bil-muh'tadīna

Translation

Indeed, your Lord is most knowing of who strays from His way, and He is most knowing of the [rightly] guided.

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Verse 117 of Surah Al-An’am (6:117), a Meccan surah, is in juz 8, on page 142 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 117

Al-Mukhtasar

Your Lord, O Messenger, knows best those people who are misled from His path; and He knows best those who are rightly guided to it. Nothing of that is hidden from Him.

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Other translations of verse 117

Your Lord knows best who strays from His way, and He knows best those who are guided.

Verily, your Lord! It is He Who knows best who strays from His Way, and He knows best the rightly guided ones.

Lo! thy Lord, He knoweth best who erreth from His way; and He knoweth best (who are) the rightly guided.

Thy Lord knoweth best who strayeth from His way: He knoweth best who they are that receive His guidance.

Surely your Lord-- He best knows who goes astray from His way, and He best knows those who follow the right course.

Surely your Lord is He Who knows best who errs away from His way, and He knows best the rightly-guided.

Verse 117 word by word

  1. إِنَّ inna Indeed
  2. رَبَّكَ rabbaka your Lord ر ب ب
  3. هُوَ huwa He
  4. أَعْلَمُ aʿlamu knows best ع ل م
  5. مَن man who
  6. يَضِلُّ yaḍillu strays ض ل ل
  7. عَن ʿan from
  8. سَبِيلِهِۦ sabīlihi His way س ب ل
  9. وَهُوَ wahuwa and He
  10. أَعْلَمُ aʿlamu (is) most knowing ع ل م
  11. بِٱلْمُهْتَدِينَ bil-muh'tadīna of the guided-ones ه د ي

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  • An-Nahl 16:125

    ٱدْعُ إِلَىٰ سَبِيلِ رَبِّكَ بِٱلْحِكْمَةِ وَٱلْمَوْعِظَةِ ٱلْحَسَنَةِ وَجَٰدِلْهُم بِٱلَّتِى هِىَ أَحْسَنُ إِنَّ رَبَّكَ هُوَ أَعْلَمُ بِمَن ضَلَّ عَن سَبِيلِهِۦ وَهُوَ أَعْلَمُ بِٱلْمُهْتَدِينَ

    Invite to the way of your Lord with wisdom and good instruction, and argue with them in a way that is best. Indeed, your Lord is most knowing of who has strayed from His way, and He is most knowing of who is [rightly] guided.

  • Al-Qalam 68:7

    إِنَّ رَبَّكَ هُوَ أَعْلَمُ بِمَن ضَلَّ عَن سَبِيلِهِۦ وَهُوَ أَعْلَمُ بِٱلْمُهْتَدِينَ

    Indeed, your Lord is most knowing of who has gone astray from His way, and He is most knowing of the [rightly] guided.

  • Al-Hijr 15:86

    إِنَّ رَبَّكَ هُوَ ٱلْخَلَّٰقُ ٱلْعَلِيمُ

    Indeed, your Lord - He is the Knowing Creator.

  • Al-An’am 6:119

    وَمَا لَكُمْ أَلَّا تَأْكُلُوا۟ مِمَّا ذُكِرَ ٱسْمُ ٱللَّهِ عَلَيْهِ وَقَدْ فَصَّلَ لَكُم مَّا حَرَّمَ عَلَيْكُمْ إِلَّا مَا ٱضْطُرِرْتُمْ إِلَيْهِ وَإِنَّ كَثِيرًا لَّيُضِلُّونَ بِأَهْوَآئِهِم بِغَيْرِ عِلْمٍ إِنَّ رَبَّكَ هُوَ أَعْلَمُ بِٱلْمُعْتَدِينَ

    And why should you not eat of that upon which the name of Allāh has been mentioned while He has explained in detail to you what He has forbidden you, excepting that to which you are compelled. And indeed do many lead [others] astray through their [own] inclinations without knowledge. Indeed, your Lord - He is most knowing of the transgressors.

  • An-Najm 53:30

    ذَٰلِكَ مَبْلَغُهُم مِّنَ ٱلْعِلْمِ إِنَّ رَبَّكَ هُوَ أَعْلَمُ بِمَن ضَلَّ عَن سَبِيلِهِۦ وَهُوَ أَعْلَمُ بِمَنِ ٱهْتَدَىٰ

    That is their sum of knowledge. Indeed, your Lord is most knowing of who strays from His way, and He is most knowing of who is guided.

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