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Surah Al-Furqan, Verse 30

سورة الفرقان، الآية ٣٠

25:30 Juz 19 Hizb 37 Page 362 of the mushaf Meccan surah

Text of verse 25:30

وَقَالَ ٱلرَّسُولُ يَٰرَبِّ إِنَّ قَوْمِى ٱتَّخَذُوا۟ هَٰذَا ٱلْقُرْءَانَ مَهْجُورًا ۝٣٠

Transliteration

waqāla l-rasūlu yārabbi inna qawmī ittakhadhū hādhā l-qur'āna mahjūran

Translation

And the Messenger has said, "O my Lord, indeed my people have taken this Qur’ān as [a thing] abandoned."1022

Notes

[1022] i.e., avoiding it, not listening to or understanding it, not living by it, or preferring something else to it.

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Verse 30 of Surah Al-Furqan (25:30), a Meccan surah, is in juz 19, on page 362 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 30

Al-Mukhtasar

The Messenger will say on that day complaining about the condition of his people: O my Lord! My people, to whom You sent me, left this Qur’ān and ignored it.

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Other translations of verse 30

The Messenger said, “O my Lord, my people have taken this Qur’an as a thing to be abandoned16.”

Notes

[16] i.e., not reading it; not listening to it; not understanding it; not living by it; not conveying it to others; preferring something else to it, etc.

And the Messenger (Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم) will say: "O my Lord! Verily, my people deserted this Qur’ân (neither listened to it, nor acted on its laws and teachings).

And the messenger saith: O my Lord! Lo! mine own folk make this Qur'an of no account.

Then the Messenger will say: "O my Lord! Truly my people took this Qur'an for just foolish nonsense."

And the Messenger cried out: O my Lord! surely my people have treated this Quran as a forsaken thing.

And the Messenger has said, "O Lord! Surely my people have taken to themselves this Qur'an as a thing to be forsaken."

Verse 30 word by word

  1. وَقَالَ waqāla And said ق و ل
  2. ٱلرَّسُولُ l-rasūlu the Messenger ر س ل
  3. يَٰرَبِّ yārabbi O my Lord ر ب ب
  4. إِنَّ inna Indeed
  5. قَوْمِى qawmī my people ق و م
  6. ٱتَّخَذُوا۟ ittakhadhū took أ خ ذ
  7. هَٰذَا hādhā this
  8. ٱلْقُرْءَانَ l-qur'āna the Quran ق ر أ
  9. مَهْجُورًا mahjūran (as) a forsaken thing ه ج ر

Hadiths that cite this verse

Authentic Muttafaq ‘alayh (Bukhari and Muslim) Sahih al-Bukhari 4819

I heard the Prophet (ﷺ) reciting when on the pulpit: 'They will cry, "O Malik (Keeper of Hell) Let your Lord make an end of us.' (43.77)

حَدَّثَنَا حَجَّاجُ بْنُ مِنْهَالٍ، حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ بْنُ عُيَيْنَةَ، عَنْ عَمْرٍو، عَنْ عَطَاءٍ، عَنْ صَفْوَانَ بْنِ يَعْلَى، عَنْ أَبِيهِ، قَالَ سَمِعْتُ النَّبِيَّ صلى الله عليه وسلم يَقْرَأُ عَلَى الْمِنْبَرِ…

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  • Al-Ahzab 33:66–68

    يَوْمَ تُقَلَّبُ وُجُوهُهُمْ فِى ٱلنَّارِ يَقُولُونَ يَٰلَيْتَنَآ أَطَعْنَا ٱللَّهَ وَأَطَعْنَا ٱلرَّسُولَا۠ …

    The Day their faces will be turned about in the Fire, they will say, "How we wish we had obeyed Allāh and obeyed the Messenger." …

  • Fussilat 41:26

    وَقَالَ ٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا۟ لَا تَسْمَعُوا۟ لِهَٰذَا ٱلْقُرْءَانِ وَٱلْغَوْا۟ فِيهِ لَعَلَّكُمْ تَغْلِبُونَ

    And those who disbelieve say, "Do not listen to this Qur’ān and speak noisily during [the recitation of] it that perhaps you will overcome."

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  • Ash-Shu’ara 26:117

    قَالَ رَبِّ إِنَّ قَوْمِى كَذَّبُونِ

    He said, "My Lord, indeed my people have denied me.

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