Text of verse 21:70
وَأَرَادُوا۟ بِهِۦ كَيْدًا فَجَعَلْنَٰهُمُ ٱلْأَخْسَرِينَ ٧٠
Transliteration
wa-arādū bihi kaydan fajaʿalnāhumu l-akhsarīna
Translation
And they intended for him a plan [i.e., harm], but We made them the greatest losers.
سورة الأنبياء، الآية ٧٠
وَأَرَادُوا۟ بِهِۦ كَيْدًا فَجَعَلْنَٰهُمُ ٱلْأَخْسَرِينَ ٧٠
wa-arādū bihi kaydan fajaʿalnāhumu l-akhsarīna
And they intended for him a plan [i.e., harm], but We made them the greatest losers.
Verse 70 of Surah Al-Anbya (21:70), 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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Abraham’s (peace be upon him) people planned to burn him and I foiled their plan. Rather, I made them the ones who were overpowered and destroyed.
They plotted to harm him, but We made them the worst losers.
And they wanted to harm him, but We made them the worst losers.
And they wished to set a snare for him, but We made them the greater losers.
Then they sought a stratagem against him: but We made them the ones that lost most!
And they desired a war on him, but We made them the greatest losers.
And they would (devise) a plot against him; yet We made them the greatest losers.
They share a sequence of words with this verse: useful for telling them apart when memorising.
فَأَرَادُوا۟ بِهِۦ كَيْدًا فَجَعَلْنَٰهُمُ ٱلْأَسْفَلِينَ
And they intended for him a plan [i.e., harm], but We made them the most debased.