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Surah Al-Anbya, Verse 58

سورة الأنبياء، الآية ٥٨

21:58 Juz 17 Hizb 33 Page 327 of the mushaf Meccan surah

Text of verse 21:58

فَجَعَلَهُمْ جُذَٰذًا إِلَّا كَبِيرًا لَّهُمْ لَعَلَّهُمْ إِلَيْهِ يَرْجِعُونَ ۝٥٨

Transliteration

fajaʿalahum judhādhan illā kabīran lahum laʿallahum ilayhi yarjiʿūna

Translation

So he made them into fragments, except a large one among them, that they might return to it [and question].

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Verse 58 of Surah Al-Anbya (21:58), a Meccan surah, is in juz 17, on page 327 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 58

Al-Mukhtasar

So Abraham broke the idols into small pieces, and left the biggest of them hoping that the people return to it to ask it who smashed the others.

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Other translations of verse 58

So he broke them into pieces, except the biggest of them, so that they might come back to it.

So he broke them to pieces, (all) except the biggest of them, that they might turn to it.

Then he reduced them to fragments, all save the chief of them, that haply they might have recourse to it.

So he broke them to pieces, (all) but the biggest of them, that they might turn (and address themselves) to it.

So he broke them into pieces, except the chief of them, that haply they may return to it.

So he made them into scraps, except a great one they had, that possibly they would return to it.

Verse 58 word by word

  1. فَجَعَلَهُمْ fajaʿalahum So he made them ج ع ل
  2. جُذَٰذًا judhādhan (into) pieces ج ذ ذ
  3. إِلَّا illā except
  4. كَبِيرًا kabīran a large (one) ك ب ر
  5. لَّهُمْ lahum of them
  6. لَعَلَّهُمْ laʿallahum so that they may
  7. إِلَيْهِ ilayhi to it
  8. يَرْجِعُونَ yarjiʿūna return ر ج ع

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  • As-Saffat 37:93

    فَرَاغَ عَلَيْهِمْ ضَرْبًۢا بِٱلْيَمِينِ

    And he turned upon them a blow with [his] right hand.

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