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Surah Al-A’raf, Verse 23

سورة الأعراف، الآية ٢٣

7:23 Juz 8 Hizb 16 Page 153 of the mushaf Meccan surah

Text of verse 7:23

قَالَا رَبَّنَا ظَلَمْنَآ أَنفُسَنَا وَإِن لَّمْ تَغْفِرْ لَنَا وَتَرْحَمْنَا لَنَكُونَنَّ مِنَ ٱلْخَٰسِرِينَ ۝٢٣

Transliteration

qālā rabbanā ẓalamnā anfusanā wa-in lam taghfir lanā watarḥamnā lanakūnanna mina l-khāsirīna

Translation

They said, "Our Lord, we have wronged ourselves, and if You do not forgive us and have mercy upon us, we will surely be among the losers."

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Verse 23 of Surah Al-A’raf (7:23), a Meccan surah, is in juz 8, on page 153 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 23

Al-Mukhtasar

Adam and Eve said: 'O our Lord! We have wronged ourselves by doing what You forbade us from, and surely If You do not forgive us and have mercy on us we will be amongst the losers, losing our share of the worldly life and Hereafter.'

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Other translations of verse 23

They said, “Our Lord, we have wronged ourselves; if You do not forgive us and have mercy upon us, we will surely be among the losers.”

They said: "Our Lord! We have wronged ourselves. If You forgive us not, and bestow not upon us Your Mercy, we shall certainly be of the losers."

They said: Our Lord! We have wronged ourselves. If thou forgive us not and have not mercy on us, surely we are of the lost!

They said: "Our Lord! We have wronged our own souls: If thou forgive us not and bestow not upon us Thy Mercy, we shall certainly be lost."

They said: Our Lord! We have been unjust to ourselves, and if Thou forgive us not, and have (not) mercy on us, we shall certainly be of the losers.

They both said, "Our Lord, we have done an injustice to ourselves; and in case You do not forgive us and have mercy on us, indeed we (both) will definitely be among the losers."

Verse 23 word by word

  1. قَالَا qālā Both of them said ق و ل
  2. رَبَّنَا rabbanā Our Lord ر ب ب
  3. ظَلَمْنَآ ẓalamnā we have wronged ظ ل م
  4. أَنفُسَنَا anfusanā ourselves ن ف س
  5. وَإِن wa-in and if
  6. لَّمْ lam not
  7. تَغْفِرْ taghfir You forgive غ ف ر
  8. لَنَا lanā [for] us
  9. وَتَرْحَمْنَا watarḥamnā and have mercy (on) us ر ح م
  10. لَنَكُونَنَّ lanakūnanna surely, we will be ك و ن
  11. مِنَ mina among
  12. ٱلْخَٰسِرِينَ l-khāsirīna the losers خ س ر

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