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Surah Al-’Ankabut, Verse 28

سورة العنكبوت، الآية ٢٨

29:28 Juz 20 Hizb 40 Page 399 of the mushaf Meccan surah

Text of verse 29:28

وَلُوطًا إِذْ قَالَ لِقَوْمِهِۦٓ إِنَّكُمْ لَتَأْتُونَ ٱلْفَٰحِشَةَ مَا سَبَقَكُم بِهَا مِنْ أَحَدٍ مِّنَ ٱلْعَٰلَمِينَ ۝٢٨

Transliteration

walūṭan idh qāla liqawmihi innakum latatūna l-fāḥishata mā sabaqakum bihā min aḥadin mina l-ʿālamīna

Translation

And [mention] Lot, when he said to his people, "Indeed, you commit such immorality as no one has preceded you with from among the worlds.

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Verse 28 of Surah Al-’Ankabut (29:28), a Meccan surah, is in juz 20, on page 399 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 28

Al-Mukhtasar

O Messenger, remember the story of Lot when he said to his people: You are committing a terrible sin that was not perpetrated before you by anyone in the whole world. You are the first to innovate this sin that goes against the sound nature of man.

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Other translations of verse 28

And [remember] Lot, when he said to his people, “You surely commit a shameful act that no one in the world has ever done before you.

And (remember) Lût (Lot), when he said to his people: "You commit Al-Fâhishah (sodomy - the worst sin) which none has preceded you in (committing) it in the ‘Âlamîn (mankind and jinn)."

And Lot! (Remember) when he said unto his folk: Lo! ye commit lewdness such as no creature did before you.

And (remember) Lut: behold, he said to his people: "Ye do commit lewdness, such as no people in Creation (ever) committed before you.

And (We sent) Lut when he said to his people: Most surely you are guilty of an indecency which none of the nations has ever done before you;

And Lut, as he said to his people, "Surely you indeed come up to (such) obscenity as in no way has any of the worlds (that) preceded you (done so).

Verse 28 word by word

  1. وَلُوطًا walūṭan And Lut
  2. إِذْ idh when
  3. قَالَ qāla he said ق و ل
  4. لِقَوْمِهِۦٓ liqawmihi to his people ق و م
  5. إِنَّكُمْ innakum Indeed, you
  6. لَتَأْتُونَ latatūna commit أ ت ي
  7. ٱلْفَٰحِشَةَ l-fāḥishata the immorality ف ح ش
  8. مَا mā not
  9. سَبَقَكُم sabaqakum has preceded you س ب ق
  10. بِهَا bihā with it
  11. مِنْ min any
  12. أَحَدٍ aḥadin one أ ح د
  13. مِّنَ mina from
  14. ٱلْعَٰلَمِينَ l-ʿālamīna the worlds ع ل م

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  • Al-A’raf 7:80

    وَلُوطًا إِذْ قَالَ لِقَوْمِهِۦٓ أَتَأْتُونَ ٱلْفَٰحِشَةَ مَا سَبَقَكُم بِهَا مِنْ أَحَدٍ مِّنَ ٱلْعَٰلَمِينَ

    And [We had sent] Lot when he said to his people, "Do you commit such immorality as no one has preceded you with from among the worlds [i.e., peoples]?

  • An-Naml 27:54

    وَلُوطًا إِذْ قَالَ لِقَوْمِهِۦٓ أَتَأْتُونَ ٱلْفَٰحِشَةَ وَأَنتُمْ تُبْصِرُونَ

    And [mention] Lot, when he said to his people, "Do you commit immorality while you are seeing?

  • As-Saffat 37:124

    إِذْ قَالَ لِقَوْمِهِۦٓ أَلَا تَتَّقُونَ

    When he said to his people, "Will you not fear Allāh?

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