Text of verse 2:72
وَإِذْ قَتَلْتُمْ نَفْسًا فَٱدَّٰرَْٰٔتُمْ فِيهَا وَٱللَّهُ مُخْرِجٌ مَّا كُنتُمْ تَكْتُمُونَ ٧٢
Transliteration
wa-idh qataltum nafsan fa-iddāratum fīhā wal-lahu mukh'rijun mā kuntum taktumūna
Translation
And [recall] when you slew a man and disputed30 over it, but Allāh was to bring out that which you were concealing.
Notes [30] i.e., exchanged accusations and denials.
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Rachid Maach Nabil Radwan (Noor International) Muhammad Hamidullah
Isa García Noor International (España) Noor International (Latinoamérica) Julio Cortés
Salomo Keyzer
Abubakar Mahmoud Gumi
محمد جوناگڑھی
Bubenheim & Elias
Ali Muhsin Al-Barwani
Hamza Roberto Piccardo
মুহিউদ্দীন খান
Rowwad Tercüme Merkezi Şaban Piriş Ali Özek ve arkadaşları Elmalılı Hamdi Yazır
Kementerian Agama RI
Mahmud Muhammad Abduh
حسین تاجی گلهداری
Abdullah Muhammad Basmeih
Sherif Ahmeti
Məmmədəliyev & Bünyadov
Besim Korkut
馬堅
Ivan Hrbek
Ahsen Böre
三田了一
최영길
Abdul Hameed & Parappoor
Abdulaziz Guroalim Saromantang
Einar Berg
Józef Bielawski
Samir El-Hayek
George Grigore
Эльмир Кулиев
Knut Bernström
ஜான் டிரஸ்ட்
Якуб ибн Нугман
สมาคมนักเรียนเก่าอาหรับ ประเทศไทย
Муҳаммад Содиқ Муҳаммад Юсуф
Verse 72 of Surah Al-Baqarah (2:72), a Medinan surah, is in juz 1, on page 11 of the mushaf. Read it in Arabic with its transliteration, translations and tafsir, and listen to it recited by 69 reciters.
Tafsir of verse 72
Al-Mukhtasar
Allah reminds the Israelites about when they killed one of their own. They accused each other of it, each rejecting the accusation of having killed him, and accusing someone else, until they fought. But Allah revealed what they were hiding about the murder of the innocent person.
Tafsir of the whole Surah Al-Baqarah
Other translations of verse 72
And [remember] when you [Israelites] slew a man and disputed as to who the killer was, but Allah exposed what you were concealing.
And (remember) when you killed a man and fell into dispute among yourselves as to the crime. But Allâh brought forth that which you were hiding.
And (remember) when ye slew a man and disagreed concerning it and Allah brought forth that which ye were hiding.
Remember ye slew a man and fell into a dispute among yourselves as to the crime: But Allah was to bring forth what ye did hide.
And when you killed a man, then you disagreed with respect to that, and Allah was to bring forth that which you were going to hide.
And (remember) as you killed a self, (and) so you parried about it, and Allah is to bring out whatever you were keeping back.
Verse 72 word by word
وَإِذْ
wa-idh And when
قَتَلْتُمْ
qataltum you killed ق ت ل
نَفْسًا
nafsan a man ن ف س
فَٱدَّٰرَْٰٔتُمْ
fa-iddāratum then you disputed د ر أ
فِيهَا
fīhā concerning it
وَٱللَّهُ
wal-lahu but Allah
مُخْرِجٌ
mukh'rijun (is) the One Who brought forth خ ر ج
مَّا
mā what
كُنتُمْ
kuntum you were ك و ن
تَكْتُمُونَ
taktumūna concealing ك ت م
Verses related to verse 72
Cited by Ibn Kathir in his explanation of this verse
Al-Baqarah 2:56
ثُمَّ بَعَثْنَٰكُم مِّنۢ بَعْدِ مَوْتِكُمْ لَعَلَّكُمْ تَشْكُرُونَ
Then We revived you after your death that perhaps you would be grateful.
Ya-Sin 36:33–35
وَءَايَةٌ لَّهُمُ ٱلْأَرْضُ ٱلْمَيْتَةُ أَحْيَيْنَٰهَا وَأَخْرَجْنَا مِنْهَا حَبًّا فَمِنْهُ يَأْكُلُونَ …
And a sign for them is the dead earth. We have brought it to life and brought forth from it grain, and from it they eat. …
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