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Surah Al-Hijr, Verse 70

سورة الحجر، الآية ٧٠

15:70 Juz 14 Hizb 27 Page 265 of the mushaf Meccan surah

Text of verse 15:70

قَالُوٓا۟ أَوَلَمْ نَنْهَكَ عَنِ ٱلْعَٰلَمِينَ ۝٧٠

Transliteration

qālū awalam nanhaka ʿani l-ʿālamīna

Translation

They said, "Have we not forbidden you from [protecting] people?"

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Verse 70 of Surah Al-Hijr (15:70), 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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Tafsir of verse 70

Al-Mukhtasar

His people said to him: Did we not forbid you from hosting anyone? One who provides a warning has in effect excused himself for taking someone to account for not abiding by it.

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Other translations of verse 70

They said, “Did we not forbid you from [protecting] people?”

They (people of the city) said: "Did we not forbid you from entertaining (or protecting) any of the ‘Âlamîn (people, foreigners and strangers from us)?"

They said; Have we not forbidden you from (entertaining) anyone?

They said: "Did we not forbid thee (to speak) for all and sundry?"

They said: Have we not forbidden you from (other) people?

They said, "Have we not forbidden you (to entertain all) men?" (Literally: the worlds)

Verse 70 word by word

  1. قَالُوٓا۟ qālū They said ق و ل
  2. أَوَلَمْ awalam Did not
  3. نَنْهَكَ nanhaka we forbid you ن ه ي
  4. عَنِ ʿani from
  5. ٱلْعَٰلَمِينَ l-ʿālamīna the world ع ل م

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