سورة الحجر، الآية ٥٧
قَالَ فَمَا خَطْبُكُمْ أَيُّهَا ٱلْمُرْسَلُونَ ٥٧
qāla famā khaṭbukum ayyuhā l-mur'salūna
[Abraham] said, "Then what is your business [here], O messengers?"
Verse 57 of Surah Al-Hijr (15:57), a Meccan surah, is in juz 14, on page 265 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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Abraham said: What is the matter that has brought you - O Messengers - from Allah?
He said, “So, what is your mission, O messengers?”
[Ibrâhîm (Abraham) again] said: "What then is the business on which you have come, O Messengers?"
He said: And afterward what is your business, O ye messengers (of Allah)?
Abraham said: "What then is the business on which ye (have come), O ye messengers (of Allah)?"
He said: What is your business then, O messengers?
He said, "So, what is your concern, you Emissaries?"
مَا نُنَزِّلُ ٱلْمَلَٰٓئِكَةَ إِلَّا بِٱلْحَقِّ وَمَا كَانُوٓا۟ إِذًا مُّنظَرِينَ
We do not send down the angels except with truth; and they [i.e., the disbelievers] would not then be reprieved.
They share a sequence of words with this verse: useful for telling them apart when memorising.
قَالَ فَمَا خَطْبُكُمْ أَيُّهَا ٱلْمُرْسَلُونَ
[Abraham] said, "Then what is your business [here], O messengers?"
