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Surah Al-An’am, Verse 87

سورة الأنعام، الآية ٨٧

6:87 Juz 7 Hizb 14 Page 138 of the mushaf Meccan surah

Text of verse 6:87

وَمِنْ ءَابَآئِهِمْ وَذُرِّيَّٰتِهِمْ وَإِخْوَٰنِهِمْ وَٱجْتَبَيْنَٰهُمْ وَهَدَيْنَٰهُمْ إِلَىٰ صِرَٰطٍ مُّسْتَقِيمٍ ۝٨٧

Transliteration

wamin ābāihim wadhurriyyātihim wa-ikh'wānihim wa-ij'tabaynāhum wahadaynāhum ilā ṣirāṭin mus'taqīmin

Translation

And [some] among their fathers and their descendants and their brothers - and We chose them and We guided them to a straight path.

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Verse 87 of Surah Al-An’am (6:87), a Meccan surah, is in juz 7, on page 138 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 87

Al-Mukhtasar

I also guided some of their forefathers, descendants and brothers, whom I had willed to guide. I selected them and made them take the straight path: the path of Allah’s Oneness and His obedience.

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Other translations of verse 87

And some of their fathers, their descendants, and their brothers – We chose them and guided them to a straight path.

And also some of their fathers and their progeny and their brethren, We chose them, and We guided them to the Straight Path.

With some of their forefathers and their offspring and their brethren; and We chose them and guided them unto a straight path.

(To them) and to their fathers, and progeny and brethren: We chose them, and we guided them to a straight way.

And from among their fathers and their descendants and their brethren, and We chose them and guided them into the right way.

And of their fathers, and of their off springs, and of their brethren; and We selected them, and We guided them to a straight Path.

Verse 87 word by word

  1. وَمِنْ wamin And from
  2. ءَابَآئِهِمْ ābāihim their fathers أ ب و
  3. وَذُرِّيَّٰتِهِمْ wadhurriyyātihim and their descendents ذ ر ر
  4. وَإِخْوَٰنِهِمْ wa-ikh'wānihim and their brothers أ خ و
  5. وَٱجْتَبَيْنَٰهُمْ wa-ij'tabaynāhum and We chose them ج ب ي
  6. وَهَدَيْنَٰهُمْ wahadaynāhum and We guided them ه د ي
  7. إِلَىٰ ilā to
  8. صِرَٰطٍ ṣirāṭin a path ص ر ط
  9. مُّسْتَقِيمٍ mus'taqīmin straight ق و م

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    وَإِنَّكَ لَتَدْعُوهُمْ إِلَىٰ صِرَٰطٍ مُّسْتَقِيمٍ

    And indeed, you invite them to a straight path.

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