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Surah Al-Baqarah, Verse 32

سورة البقرة، الآية ٣٢

2:32 Juz 1 Hizb 1 Page 6 of the mushaf Medinan surah

Text of verse 2:32

قَالُوا۟ سُبْحَٰنَكَ لَا عِلْمَ لَنَآ إِلَّا مَا عَلَّمْتَنَآ إِنَّكَ أَنتَ ٱلْعَلِيمُ ٱلْحَكِيمُ ۝٣٢

Transliteration

qālū sub'ḥānaka lā ʿil'ma lanā illā mā ʿallamtanā innaka anta l-ʿalīmu l-ḥakīmu

Translation

They said, "Exalted are You; we have no knowledge except what You have taught us. Indeed, it is You who is the Knowing,19 the Wise."20

Notes

[19] Whose eternal and absolute knowledge encompasses the truth and essence of all things, seen or unseen, present or absent, neither preceded by ignorance nor followed by forgetfulness.
[20] Whose wisdom includes precise and perfect knowledge of all realities and outcomes, according to which He decrees and causes various circumstances and occurrences.

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Verse 32 of Surah Al-Baqarah (2:32), a Medinan surah, is in juz 1, on page 6 of the mushaf. Read it in Arabic with its transliteration, translations and tafsir, and listen to it recited by 69 reciters.

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Tafsir of verse 32

Al-Mukhtasar

Recognising their shortcomings and that everything comes from Allah, they said that they acknowledged that His judgement and sacred law could not be doubted, and that they had no knowledge except for the knowledge He had given them, accepting that He is the Knowing, from Whom nothing is hidden, and the Wise in His decrees and laws.

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Other translations of verse 32

They said, “Glory be to You! We have no knowledge except what You have taught us. Indeed, it is You Who are the All-Knowing, the All-Wise.”

They (angels) said: "Glory be to You, we have no knowledge except what you have taught us. Verily, it is You, the All-Knower, the All-Wise."

They said: Be glorified! We have no knowledge saving that which Thou hast taught us. Lo! Thou, only Thou, art the Knower, the Wise.

They said: "Glory to Thee, of knowledge We have none, save what Thou Hast taught us: In truth it is Thou Who art perfect in knowledge and wisdom."

They said: Glory be to Thee! we have no knowledge but that which Thou hast taught us; surely Thou art the Knowing, the Wise.

They said, All Extolment be to You! We have no knowledge except that which You have taught us. Surely, You, Ever You, are The Ever-Knowing, The Ever-Wise."

Verse 32 word by word

  1. قَالُوا۟ qālū They said ق و ل
  2. سُبْحَٰنَكَ sub'ḥānaka Glory be to You س ب ح
  3. لَا lā No
  4. عِلْمَ ʿil'ma knowledge ع ل م
  5. لَنَآ lanā (is) for us
  6. إِلَّا illā except
  7. مَا mā what
  8. عَلَّمْتَنَآ ʿallamtanā You have taught us ع ل م
  9. إِنَّكَ innaka Indeed You
  10. أَنتَ anta You
  11. ٱلْعَلِيمُ l-ʿalīmu (are) the All-Knowing ع ل م
  12. ٱلْحَكِيمُ l-ḥakīmu the All-Wise ح ك م

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