Text of verse 25:5
وَقَالُوٓا۟ أَسَٰطِيرُ ٱلْأَوَّلِينَ ٱكْتَتَبَهَا فَهِىَ تُمْلَىٰ عَلَيْهِ بُكْرَةً وَأَصِيلًا ٥
Transliteration
waqālū asāṭīru l-awalīna ik'tatabahā fahiya tum'lā ʿalayhi buk'ratan wa-aṣīlan
Translation
And they say, "Legends of the former peoples which he has written down, and they are dictated to him morning and afternoon."
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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 5 of Surah Al-Furqan (25:5), a Meccan surah, is in juz 18, on page 360 of the mushaf. Read it in Arabic with its transliteration, translations and tafsir, and listen to it recited by 74 reciters.
Tafsir of verse 5
Al-Mukhtasar
And these rejecters of the Qur’ān said, “The Qur’ān is vain tales of the previous people which they used to record; Muhammad has copied them. They are recited to him throughout the day”.
Tafsir of the whole Surah Al-Furqan
Other translations of verse 5
And they say, “Ancient fables which he has written down; they are dictated to him morning and evening.”
And they say: "Tales of the ancients, which he has written down: and they are dictated to him morning and afternoon."
And they say: Fables of the men of old which he hath had written down so that they are dictated to him morn and evening.
And they say: "Tales of the ancients, which he has caused to be written: and they are dictated before him morning and evening."
And they say: The stories of the ancients-- he has got them written-- so these are read out to him morning and evening.
And they have said, "Myths of the earliest (people) that he has had written down so that they are dictated to him before sunrise and at nightfall."
Verse 5 word by word
وَقَالُوٓا۟
waqālū And they say ق و ل
أَسَٰطِيرُ
asāṭīru Tales س ط ر
ٱلْأَوَّلِينَ
l-awalīna (of) the former people أ و ل
ٱكْتَتَبَهَا
ik'tatabahā which he has had written ك ت ب
فَهِىَ
fahiya and they
تُمْلَىٰ
tum'lā are dictated م ل و
عَلَيْهِ
ʿalayhi to him
بُكْرَةً
buk'ratan morning ب ك ر
وَأَصِيلًا
wa-aṣīlan and evening أ ص ل
Verses related to verse 5
Cited by Ibn Kathir in his explanation of this verse
Al-Isra 17:48
ٱنظُرْ كَيْفَ ضَرَبُوا۟ لَكَ ٱلْأَمْثَالَ فَضَلُّوا۟ فَلَا يَسْتَطِيعُونَ سَبِيلًا
Look how they strike for you comparisons; but they have strayed, so they cannot [find] a way.
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