سورة الأنبياء، الآية ٦١
قَالُوا۟ فَأْتُوا۟ بِهِۦ عَلَىٰٓ أَعْيُنِ ٱلنَّاسِ لَعَلَّهُمْ يَشْهَدُونَ ٦١
qālū fatū bihi ʿalā aʿyuni l-nāsi laʿallahum yashhadūna
They said, "Then bring him before the eyes of the people that they may testify."892
[892] To what they had heard him say. It may also mean "...that they may witness [what will be done to him as punishment]."
Verse 61 of Surah Al-Anbya (21:61), 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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Their chiefs said, “Bring Abraham in front of the people so that they may testify to his confession to what he did, and their confession will be your evidence against him.”
They said, “Bring him then before the eyes of the people, so that they may witness [his trial]23.”
[23] Or his confession about what he did.
They said: "Then bring him before the eyes of the people, that they may testify."
They said: Then bring him (hither) before the people's eyes that they may testify.
They said, "Then bring him before the eyes of the people, that they may bear witness."
Said they: Then bring him before the eyes of the people, perhaps they may bear witness.
They said, "Then come up with him (i.e., bring him) before the eyes of the multitude, that possibly they would testify."
