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Surah Al-A’raf, Verse 130

سورة الأعراف، الآية ١٣٠

7:130 Juz 9 Hizb 17 Page 165 of the mushaf Meccan surah

Text of verse 7:130

وَلَقَدْ أَخَذْنَآ ءَالَ فِرْعَوْنَ بِٱلسِّنِينَ وَنَقْصٍ مِّنَ ٱلثَّمَرَٰتِ لَعَلَّهُمْ يَذَّكَّرُونَ ۝١٣٠

Transliteration

walaqad akhadhnā āla fir'ʿawna bil-sinīna wanaqṣin mina l-thamarāti laʿallahum yadhakkarūna

Translation

And We certainly seized397 the people of Pharaoh with years of famine and a deficiency in fruits that perhaps they would be reminded.

Notes

[397] Imposed on them by way of trial and warning.

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Verse 130 of Surah Al-A’raf (7:130), a Meccan surah, is in juz 9, on page 165 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 130

Al-Mukhtasar

And indeed I gave the people of Pharaoh a number of years of drought and famine, testing them with a shortage of fruits and crops, so that they might reflect and realise that this was a punishment from Allah because of their disbelief, and so they might repent to Him.

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Other translations of verse 130

We afflicted the people of Pharaoh with famine and poor harvests, so that they may take heed.

And indeed We punished the people of Fir‘aun (Pharaoh) with years of drought and shortness of fruits (crops), that they might remember (take heed).

And we straitened Pharaoh's folk with famine and dearth of fruits, that peradventure they might heed.

We punished the people of Pharaoh with years (of droughts) and shortness of crops; that they might receive admonition.

And certainly We overtook Firon's people with droughts and diminution of fruits that they may be mindful.

And indeed We already took the house of Firaawn (to task) with years (of dearth), and diminution of products, that possibly they would constantly remember.

Verse 130 word by word

  1. وَلَقَدْ walaqad And certainly
  2. أَخَذْنَآ akhadhnā We seized أ خ ذ
  3. ءَالَ āla (the) people أ و ل
  4. فِرْعَوْنَ fir'ʿawna (of) Firaun
  5. بِٱلسِّنِينَ bil-sinīna with years (of famine) س ن و
  6. وَنَقْصٍ wanaqṣin and a deficit ن ق ص
  7. مِّنَ mina of
  8. ٱلثَّمَرَٰتِ l-thamarāti [the] fruits ث م ر
  9. لَعَلَّهُمْ laʿallahum so that they may
  10. يَذَّكَّرُونَ yadhakkarūna receive admonition ذ ك ر

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