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Surah Al-Furqan, Verse 38

سورة الفرقان، الآية ٣٨

25:38 Juz 19 Hizb 37 Page 363 of the mushaf Meccan surah

Text of verse 25:38

وَعَادًا وَثَمُودَا۟ وَأَصْحَٰبَ ٱلرَّسِّ وَقُرُونًۢا بَيْنَ ذَٰلِكَ كَثِيرًا ۝٣٨

Transliteration

waʿādan wathamūdā wa-aṣḥāba l-rasi waqurūnan bayna dhālika kathīran

Translation

And [We destroyed] ʿAad and Thamūd and the companions of the well1025 and many generations between them.

Notes

[1025] Said to be a people who denied Prophet Shuʿayb or possibly those mentioned in Sūrah Yā Seen, 36:13-29.

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Verse 38 of Surah Al-Furqan (25:38), a Meccan surah, is in juz 19, on page 363 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 38

Al-Mukhtasar

I also destroyed the Ad, the people of Hud, and the Thamud, the people of Salih. I destroyed the people of the Well and I destroyed many communities between these three.

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Other translations of verse 38

Also [We destroyed] ‘Ād and Thamūd, and the people of the Well19, and many generations between them.

Notes

[19] i.e., people of prophet Shuʿayb, or those mentioned in Surah Yā Sīn (36:13-29), or a tribe of Thamūd, etc. Rass (lit., well); for they killed their prophet by throwing him into or hanging him down an old or dry well. (Well)

And (also) ‘Âd and Thamûd, and the Dwellers of Ar-Rass, and many generations in between.

And (the tribes of) A'ad and Thamud, and the dwellers in Ar-Rass, and many generations in between.

As also 'Ad and Thamud, and the Companions of the Rass, and many a generation between them.

And Ad and Samood and the dwellers of the Rass and many generations between them.

And Aad, and Thamûd, and the companions (i.e., inhabitants) of ÉAr-Rass, and between them (Literally: that) many generations.

Verse 38 word by word

  1. وَعَادًا waʿādan And Ad ع و د
  2. وَثَمُودَا۟ wathamūdā and Thamud
  3. وَأَصْحَٰبَ wa-aṣḥāba and (the) dwellers ص ح ب
  4. ٱلرَّسِّ l-rasi (of) Ar-rass ر س س
  5. وَقُرُونًۢا waqurūnan and generations ق ر ن
  6. بَيْنَ bayna between ب ي ن
  7. ذَٰلِكَ dhālika that
  8. كَثِيرًا kathīran many ك ث ر

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