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Surah Al-Anfal, Verse 8

سورة الأنفال، الآية ٨

8:8 Juz 9 Hizb 18 Page 177 of the mushaf Medinan surah

Text of verse 8:8

لِيُحِقَّ ٱلْحَقَّ وَيُبْطِلَ ٱلْبَٰطِلَ وَلَوْ كَرِهَ ٱلْمُجْرِمُونَ ۝٨

Transliteration

liyuḥiqqa l-ḥaqa wayub'ṭila l-bāṭila walaw kariha l-muj'rimūna

Translation

That He should establish the truth and abolish falsehood, even if the criminals disliked it.

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Verse 8 of Surah Al-Anfal (8:8), a Medinan surah, is in juz 9, on page 177 of the mushaf. Read it in Arabic with its transliteration, translations and tafsir, and listen to it recited by 72 reciters.

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Tafsir of verse 8

Al-Mukhtasar

This occurred so that Allah may establish the truth by making Islam and its people victorious, and for Him to make clear the error of falsehood, even if the idolaters disliked this.

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Other translations of verse 8

so that He might establish the truth and nullify the falsehood, even though the wicked are averse to it.

That He might cause the truth to triumph and bring falsehood to nothing, even though the Mujrimûn (disbelievers, polytheists, sinners, criminals) hate it.

That He might cause the Truth to triumph and bring vanity to naught, however much the guilty might oppose;

That He might justify Truth and prove Falsehood false, distasteful though it be to those in guilt.

That He may manifest the truth of what was true and show the falsehood of what was false, though the guilty disliked.

That He might (uphold) truthfully the truth and void the untrue, although the criminals would hate (that).

Verse 8 word by word

  1. لِيُحِقَّ liyuḥiqqa That He might justify ح ق ق
  2. ٱلْحَقَّ l-ḥaqa the truth ح ق ق
  3. وَيُبْطِلَ wayub'ṭila and prove false ب ط ل
  4. ٱلْبَٰطِلَ l-bāṭila the falsehood ب ط ل
  5. وَلَوْ walaw even if
  6. كَرِهَ kariha disliked (it) ك ر ه
  7. ٱلْمُجْرِمُونَ l-muj'rimūna the criminals ج ر م

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