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Surah Al-A’raf, Verse 135

سورة الأعراف، الآية ١٣٥

7:135 Juz 9 Hizb 17 Page 166 of the mushaf Meccan surah

Text of verse 7:135

فَلَمَّا كَشَفْنَا عَنْهُمُ ٱلرِّجْزَ إِلَىٰٓ أَجَلٍ هُم بَٰلِغُوهُ إِذَا هُمْ يَنكُثُونَ ۝١٣٥

Transliteration

falammā kashafnā ʿanhumu l-rij'za ilā ajalin hum bālighūhu idhā hum yankuthūna

Translation

But when We removed the punishment from them until a term which they were to reach,398 then at once they broke their word.

Notes

[398] i.e., a specified term which would end with their reversion to disobedience and disbelief.

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Verse 135 of Surah Al-A’raf (7:135), a Meccan surah, is in juz 9, on page 166 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 135

Al-Mukhtasar

But when Allah removed the torment from them for a set time – before they were destroyed through drowning – they went back on their word and did not believe him or send the Israelites with him, remaining firm on their disbelief, and not allowing the Israelites to go with Moses (peace be upon him).

Tafsir of the whole Surah Al-A’raf

Other translations of verse 135

But when We removed the scourge from them until an appointed term that they were bound to reach, they broke their promise.

But when We removed the punishment from them to a fixed term, which they had to reach, behold! they broke their word!

But when We did remove from them the terror for a term which they must reach, behold! they broke their covenant.

But every time We removed the penalty from them according to a fixed term which they had to fulfil,- Behold! they broke their word!

But when We removed the plague from them till a term which they should attain lo! they broke (the promise).

Then as soon as We lifted off from them the chastisement to a term that they should reach, only then did they breach (their covenant).

Verse 135 word by word

  1. فَلَمَّا falammā But when
  2. كَشَفْنَا kashafnā We removed ك ش ف
  3. عَنْهُمُ ʿanhumu from them
  4. ٱلرِّجْزَ l-rij'za the punishment ر ج ز
  5. إِلَىٰٓ ilā till
  6. أَجَلٍ ajalin a (fixed) term أ ج ل
  7. هُم hum (which) they
  8. بَٰلِغُوهُ bālighūhu were to reach [it] ب ل غ
  9. إِذَا idhā then
  10. هُمْ hum they
  11. يَنكُثُونَ yankuthūna broke (the word) ن ك ث

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