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Surah Al-Fath, Verse 22

سورة الفتح، الآية ٢٢

48:22 Juz 26 Hizb 52 Page 513 of the mushaf Medinan surah

Text of verse 48:22

وَلَوْ قَٰتَلَكُمُ ٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا۟ لَوَلَّوُا۟ ٱلْأَدْبَٰرَ ثُمَّ لَا يَجِدُونَ وَلِيًّا وَلَا نَصِيرًا ۝٢٢

Transliteration

walaw qātalakumu alladhīna kafarū lawallawū l-adbāra thumma lā yajidūna waliyyan walā naṣīran

Translation

And if those [Makkans] who disbelieve had fought you, they would have turned their backs [in flight]. Then they would not find a protector or a helper.

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Verse 22 of Surah Al-Fath (48:22), a Medinan surah, is in juz 26, on page 513 of the mushaf. Read it in Arabic with its transliteration, translations and tafsir, and listen to it recited by 74 reciters.

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Tafsir of verse 22

Al-Mukhtasar

O believers! If those who disbelieved in Allah and His Messenger were to fight you, they would turn their backs, defeated and fleeing. They would not find any guardian who would take care of their matter, nor any helper who would help them in fighting against you.

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Other translations of verse 22

If the disbelievers were to fight you, they would surely turn their backs, then they would not have any protector or helper.

And if those who disbelieve fight against you, they certainly would have turned their backs; then they would have found neither a Walî (protector, guardian) nor a helper.

And if those who disbelieve join battle with you they will take to flight, and afterward they will find no protecting friend nor helper.

If the Unbelievers should fight you, they would certainly turn their backs; then would they find neither protector nor helper.

And if those who disbelieve fight with you, they would certainly turn (their) backs, then they would not find any protector or a helper.

And if the ones who have disbelieved fought you, indeed they would have turned their backs; thereafter they will find neither a patron nor a ready vindicator.

Verse 22 word by word

  1. وَلَوْ walaw And if
  2. قَٰتَلَكُمُ qātalakumu fight you ق ت ل
  3. ٱلَّذِينَ alladhīna those who
  4. كَفَرُوا۟ kafarū disbelieve ك ف ر
  5. لَوَلَّوُا۟ lawallawū surely they would turn و ل ي
  6. ٱلْأَدْبَٰرَ l-adbāra the backs د ب ر
  7. ثُمَّ thumma Then
  8. لَا lā not
  9. يَجِدُونَ yajidūna they would find و ج د
  10. وَلِيًّا waliyyan any protector و ل ي
  11. وَلَا walā and not
  12. نَصِيرًا naṣīran any helper ن ص ر

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  • Al-Ahzab 33:65

    خَٰلِدِينَ فِيهَآ أَبَدًا لَّا يَجِدُونَ وَلِيًّا وَلَا نَصِيرًا

    Abiding therein forever, they will not find a protector or a helper.

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