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Surah Al-Isra, Verse 103

سورة الإسراء، الآية ١٠٣

17:103 Juz 15 Hizb 30 Page 292 of the mushaf Meccan surah

Text of verse 17:103

فَأَرَادَ أَن يَسْتَفِزَّهُم مِّنَ ٱلْأَرْضِ فَأَغْرَقْنَٰهُ وَمَن مَّعَهُۥ جَمِيعًا ۝١٠٣

Transliteration

fa-arāda an yastafizzahum mina l-arḍi fa-aghraqnāhu waman maʿahu jamīʿan

Translation

So he intended to drive them from the land, but We drowned him and those with him all together.

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Verse 103 of Surah Al-Isra (17:103), a Meccan surah, is in juz 15, on page 292 of the mushaf. Read it in Arabic with its transliteration, translations and tafsir, and listen to it recited by 73 reciters.

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Tafsir of verse 103

Al-Mukhtasar

So Pharaoh intended to punish Moses (peace be upon him) and his people by exiling them from Egypt, so I destroyed him and all the armies with him by drowning them.

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Other translations of verse 103

So he decided to exile them out of the land, but We drowned him and all those who were with him.

So he resolved to turn them out of the land (of Egypt). But We drowned him and all who were with him.

And he wished to scare them from the land, but We drowned him and those with him, all together.

So he resolved to remove them from the face of the earth: but We did drown him and all who were with him.

So he desired to destroy them out of the earth, but We drowned him and those with him all together;

So he would (have) startled them from the land; so We drowned him and the ones with him, altogether.

Verse 103 word by word

  1. فَأَرَادَ fa-arāda So he intended ر و د
  2. أَن an to
  3. يَسْتَفِزَّهُم yastafizzahum drive them out ف ز ز
  4. مِّنَ mina from
  5. ٱلْأَرْضِ l-arḍi the land أ ر ض
  6. فَأَغْرَقْنَٰهُ fa-aghraqnāhu but We drowned him غ ر ق
  7. وَمَن waman and who
  8. مَّعَهُۥ maʿahu (were) with him
  9. جَمِيعًا jamīʿan all ج م ع

Verses related to verse 103

Cited by Ibn Kathir in his explanation of this verse

  • Al-Isra 17:76–77

    وَإِن كَادُوا۟ لَيَسْتَفِزُّونَكَ مِنَ ٱلْأَرْضِ لِيُخْرِجُوكَ مِنْهَا وَإِذًا لَّا يَلْبَثُونَ خِلَٰفَكَ إِلَّا قَلِيلًا …

    And indeed, they were about to provoke [i.e., drive] you from the land [i.e., Makkah] to evict you therefrom. And then [when they do], they will not remain [there] after you, except for a little. …

  • Ash-Shu’ara 26:59

    كَذَٰلِكَ وَأَوْرَثْنَٰهَا بَنِىٓ إِسْرَٰٓءِيلَ

    Thus. And We caused to inherit it the Children of Israel.

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