Verse 182 of Surah Al-A’raf (7:182), a Meccan surah, is in juz 9, on page 174 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 182
Al-Mukhtasar
Those who deny My signs, not having faith in them and rejecting them, I will continue to provide for them in the worldly life, not to honour them, but to lead them on gradually until they go further astray. Then they will be overtaken by the punishment when they do not expect it.
As for those who reject Our signs, We will gradually lead them to destruction81 without them realizing it.
Notes
[81] By giving them one favor after another which only increases them in arrogance and sin.
Those who reject Our Ayât (proofs, evidence, verses, lessons, signs, revelations, etc.), We shall gradually seize them with punishment in ways they perceive not.
And those who deny Our revelations - step by step We lead them on from whence they know not.
Those who reject Our signs, We shall gradually visit with punishment, in ways they perceive not;
And (as to) those who reject Our communications, We draw them near (to destruction) by degrees from whence they know not.
And the ones who have cried lies to Our signs, We will soon gradually draw them (to punishment) from where they do not know..
So when they forgot that by which they had been reminded, We opened to them the doors of every [good] thing until, when they rejoiced in that which they were given, We seized them suddenly, and they were [then] in despair. …
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So leave Me, [O Muḥammad], with [the matter of] whoever denies this statement [i.e., the Qur’ān]. We will progressively lead them [to punishment] from where they do not know.
