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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Rachid Maach Nabil Radwan (Noor International) Muhammad Hamidullah
Isa García Noor International (España) Noor International (Latinoamérica) Julio Cortés
Salomo Keyzer
Abubakar Mahmoud Gumi
محمد جوناگڑھی
Bubenheim & Elias
Ali Muhsin Al-Barwani
Hamza Roberto Piccardo
মুহিউদ্দীন খান
Rowwad Tercüme Merkezi Şaban Piriş Ali Özek ve arkadaşları Elmalılı Hamdi Yazır
Kementerian Agama RI
Mahmud Muhammad Abduh
حسین تاجی گلهداری
Abdullah Muhammad Basmeih
Sherif Ahmeti
Məmmədəliyev & Bünyadov
Besim Korkut
馬堅
Ivan Hrbek
Ahsen Böre
三田了一
최영길
Abdul Hameed & Parappoor
Abdulaziz Guroalim Saromantang
Einar Berg
Józef Bielawski
Samir El-Hayek
George Grigore
Эльмир Кулиев
Knut Bernström
ஜான் டிரஸ்ட்
Якуб ибн Нугман
สมาคมนักเรียนเก่าอาหรับ ประเทศไทย
Муҳаммад Содиқ Муҳаммад Юсуф
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.
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.
Tafsir of the whole Surah Al-Anbya
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
فَجَعَلَهُمْ
fajaʿalahum So he made them ج ع ل
جُذَٰذًا
judhādhan (into) pieces ج ذ ذ
إِلَّا
illā except
كَبِيرًا
kabīran a large (one) ك ب ر
لَّهُمْ
lahum of them
لَعَلَّهُمْ
laʿallahum so that they may
إِلَيْهِ
ilayhi to it
يَرْجِعُونَ
yarjiʿūna return ر ج ع
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Surah Al-Anbya
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112 verses · Meccan