سورة الأعراف، الآية ٥
فَمَا كَانَ دَعْوَىٰهُمْ إِذْ جَآءَهُم بَأْسُنَآ إِلَّآ أَن قَالُوٓا۟ إِنَّا كُنَّا ظَٰلِمِينَ ٥
famā kāna daʿwāhum idh jāahum basunā illā an qālū innā kunnā ẓālimīna
And their declaration when Our punishment came to them was only that they said, "Indeed, we were wrongdoers!"
Verse 5 of Surah Al-A’raf (7:5), a Meccan surah, is in juz 8, on page 151 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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All they could do when the punishment came down on them was to admit that they had done wrong through their disbelief in Allah.
Their only cry, when Our punishment came upon them, was, “We were indeed wrongdoers.”
No cry did they utter when Our Torment came upon them but this: "Verily, we were Zâlimûn (polytheists and wrong-doers)".
No plea had they, when Our terror came unto them, save that they said: Lo! We were wrong-doers.
When (thus) Our punishment took them, no cry did they utter but this: "Indeed we did wrong."
Yet their cry, when Our punishment came to them, was nothing but that they said: Surely we were unjust.
So, in no way did they have a plea as Our violence came to them, except that they said, "Surely we were unjust."
وَكَمْ قَصَمْنَا مِن قَرْيَةٍ كَانَتْ ظَالِمَةً وَأَنشَأْنَا بَعْدَهَا قَوْمًا ءَاخَرِينَ …
And how many a city which was unjust have We shattered and produced after it another people. …
