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Surah Al-A’raf, Verse 202

سورة الأعراف، الآية ٢٠٢

7:202 Juz 9 Hizb 18 Page 176 of the mushaf Meccan surah

Text of verse 7:202

وَإِخْوَٰنُهُمْ يَمُدُّونَهُمْ فِى ٱلْغَىِّ ثُمَّ لَا يُقْصِرُونَ ۝٢٠٢

Transliteration

wa-ikh'wānuhum yamuddūnahum fī l-ghayi thumma lā yuq'ṣirūna

Translation

But their brothers435 - they [i.e., the devils] increase them in error; then they do not stop short.

Notes

[435] Those among mankind who listen to the devils and obey their orders.

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Verse 202 of Surah Al-A’raf (7:202), a Meccan surah, is in juz 9, on page 176 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 202

Al-Mukhtasar

The brothers of the satans, who commit immorality and disbelieve, are drawn by the satans into greater error, committing sin after sin. They do not stop in their efforts: neither the satans with their misguidance nor those who are immoral and who follow them, committing evil.

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Other translations of verse 202

But the devils plunge their [human] brothers deeper into sin, sparing no effort.

But (as for) their brothers (the devils) they (i.e. the devils) plunge them deeper into error, and they never stop short.

Their brethren plunge them further into error and cease not.

But their brethren (the evil ones) plunge them deeper into error, and never relax (their efforts).

And their brethren increase them in error, then they cease not.

And their brethren reinforce them into misguidance, thereafter they do not stop short..

Verse 202 word by word

  1. وَإِخْوَٰنُهُمْ wa-ikh'wānuhum But their brothers أ خ و
  2. يَمُدُّونَهُمْ yamuddūnahum they plunge them م د د
  3. فِى fī in
  4. ٱلْغَىِّ l-ghayi the error غ و ي
  5. ثُمَّ thumma then
  6. لَا lā not
  7. يُقْصِرُونَ yuq'ṣirūna they cease ق ص ر

Verses related to verse 202

Cited by Ibn Kathir in his explanation of this verse

  • Al-Isra 17:27

    إِنَّ ٱلْمُبَذِّرِينَ كَانُوٓا۟ إِخْوَٰنَ ٱلشَّيَٰطِينِ وَكَانَ ٱلشَّيْطَٰنُ لِرَبِّهِۦ كَفُورًا

    Indeed, the wasteful are brothers of the devils, and ever has Satan been to his Lord ungrateful.

  • Maryam 19:83

    أَلَمْ تَرَ أَنَّآ أَرْسَلْنَا ٱلشَّيَٰطِينَ عَلَى ٱلْكَٰفِرِينَ تَؤُزُّهُمْ أَزًّا

    Do you not see that We have sent the devils upon the disbelievers, inciting them [to evil] with [constant] incitement?

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