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Surah Al-Baqarah, Verse 56

سورة البقرة، الآية ٥٦

2:56 Juz 1 Hizb 1 Page 8 of the mushaf Medinan surah

Text of verse 2:56

ثُمَّ بَعَثْنَٰكُم مِّنۢ بَعْدِ مَوْتِكُمْ لَعَلَّكُمْ تَشْكُرُونَ ۝٥٦

Transliteration

thumma baʿathnākum min baʿdi mawtikum laʿallakum tashkurūna

Translation

Then We revived you after your death that perhaps you would be grateful.

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Verse 56 of Surah Al-Baqarah (2:56), a Medinan surah, is in juz 1, on page 8 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 56

Al-Mukhtasar

Then He brought you back to life after death so that you might be thankful to Him for the blessings He granted you in this way.

Tafsir of the whole Surah Al-Baqarah

Other translations of verse 56

Then We raised you back to life after your death, so that you may be grateful.

Then We raised you up after your death, so that you might be grateful.

Then We revived you after your extinction, that ye might give thanks.

Then We raised you up after your death: Ye had the chance to be grateful.

Then We raised you up after your death that you may give thanks.

Thereafter We made you to rise again even after your death, that possibly you would thank (Us).

Verse 56 word by word

  1. ثُمَّ thumma Then
  2. بَعَثْنَٰكُم baʿathnākum We revived you ب ع ث
  3. مِّنۢ min from
  4. بَعْدِ baʿdi after ب ع د
  5. مَوْتِكُمْ mawtikum your death م و ت
  6. لَعَلَّكُمْ laʿallakum so that you may
  7. تَشْكُرُونَ tashkurūna (be) grateful ش ك ر

Verses related to verse 56

Cited by Ibn Kathir in his explanation of this verse

  • Al-A’raf 7:155–156

    وَٱخْتَارَ مُوسَىٰ قَوْمَهُۥ سَبْعِينَ رَجُلًا لِّمِيقَٰتِنَا فَلَمَّآ أَخَذَتْهُمُ ٱلرَّجْفَةُ قَالَ رَبِّ لَوْ شِئْتَ أَهْلَكْتَهُم مِّن قَبْلُ وَإِيَّٰىَ أَتُهْلِكُنَا بِمَا فَعَلَ ٱلسُّفَهَآءُ مِنَّآ إِنْ هِىَ إِلَّا فِتْنَتُكَ تُضِلُّ بِهَا مَن تَشَآءُ وَتَهْدِى مَن تَشَآءُ أَنتَ وَلِيُّنَا فَٱغْفِرْ لَنَا وَٱرْحَمْنَا وَأَنتَ خَيْرُ ٱلْغَٰفِرِينَ …

    And Moses chose from his people seventy men for Our appointment. And when the earthquake seized them, he said, "My Lord, if You had willed, You could have destroyed them before and me [as well]. Would You destroy us for what the foolish among us have done? This is not but Your trial by which You send astray whom You will and guide whom You will. You are our Protector, so forgive us and have mercy upon us; and You are the best of forgivers. …

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