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Surah Al-Isra, Verse 104

سورة الإسراء، الآية ١٠٤

17:104 Juz 15 Hizb 30 Page 292 of the mushaf Meccan surah

Text of verse 17:104

وَقُلْنَا مِنۢ بَعْدِهِۦ لِبَنِىٓ إِسْرَٰٓءِيلَ ٱسْكُنُوا۟ ٱلْأَرْضَ فَإِذَا جَآءَ وَعْدُ ٱلْـَٔاخِرَةِ جِئْنَا بِكُمْ لَفِيفًا ۝١٠٤

Transliteration

waqul'nā min baʿdihi libanī is'rāīla us'kunū l-arḍa fa-idhā jāa waʿdu l-ākhirati ji'nā bikum lafīfan

Translation

And We said after him [i.e., Pharaoh] to the Children of Israel, "Dwell in the land, and when there comes the promise [i.e., appointment] of the Hereafter, We will bring you forth in [one] gathering."

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Verse 104 of Surah Al-Isra (17:104), 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 104

Al-Mukhtasar

And I said to the Israelites after destroying Pharaoh and his armies: Settle in the land of the Levant. Then when the Day of Judgment comes, I shall bring you all to the plain of gathering for the accounting.

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Other translations of verse 104

Thereafter83 We said to the Children of Israel, “Dwell in the land, but when the promise of the Hereafter comes, We will bring you all together.”

Notes

[83] After the drowning of Pharaoh and his people.

And We said to the Children of Israel after him: "Dwell in the land, then, when the final and the last promise comes near [i.e. the Day of Resurrection or the descent of Christ [‘Îsâ (Jesus), son of Maryam (Mary) عليهما السلام on the earth], We shall bring you altogether as mixed crowd (gathered out of various nations). (Tafsir Al-Qurtubî,).

And We said unto the Children of Israel after him: Dwell in the land; but when the promise of the Hereafter cometh to pass We shall bring you as a crowd gathered out of various nations.

And We said thereafter to the Children of Israel, "Dwell securely in the land (of promise)": but when the second of the warnings came to pass, We gathered you together in a mingled crowd.

And We said to the Israelites after him: Dwell in the land: and when the promise of the next life shall come to pass, we will bring you both together in judgment.

And We said to Seeds of after him, "Dwell in the land; then when the promise of the Hereafter comes, We will cause you to come clustering."

Verse 104 word by word

  1. وَقُلْنَا waqul'nā And We said ق و ل
  2. مِنۢ min after him
  3. بَعْدِهِۦ baʿdihi after him ب ع د
  4. لِبَنِىٓ libanī to the Children of Israel ب ن ي
  5. إِسْرَٰٓءِيلَ is'rāīla to the Children of Israel
  6. ٱسْكُنُوا۟ us'kunū Dwell س ك ن
  7. ٱلْأَرْضَ l-arḍa (in) the land أ ر ض
  8. فَإِذَا fa-idhā then when
  9. جَآءَ jāa comes ج ي أ
  10. وَعْدُ waʿdu (the) promise و ع د
  11. ٱلْـَٔاخِرَةِ l-ākhirati (of) the Hereafter أ خ ر
  12. جِئْنَا ji'nā We will bring ج ي أ
  13. بِكُمْ bikum you
  14. لَفِيفًا lafīfan (as) a mixed crowd ل ف ف

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  • Ash-Shu’ara 26:59

    كَذَٰلِكَ وَأَوْرَثْنَٰهَا بَنِىٓ إِسْرَٰٓءِيلَ

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

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  • Al-Isra 17:7

    إِنْ أَحْسَنتُمْ أَحْسَنتُمْ لِأَنفُسِكُمْ وَإِنْ أَسَأْتُمْ فَلَهَا فَإِذَا جَآءَ وَعْدُ ٱلْـَٔاخِرَةِ لِيَسُـۥٓـُٔوا۟ وُجُوهَكُمْ وَلِيَدْخُلُوا۟ ٱلْمَسْجِدَ كَمَا دَخَلُوهُ أَوَّلَ مَرَّةٍ وَلِيُتَبِّرُوا۟ مَا عَلَوْا۟ تَتْبِيرًا

    [And said], "If you do good, you do good for yourselves; and if you do evil, [you do it] to them [i.e., yourselves]." Then when the final [i.e., second] promise came, [We sent your enemies] to sadden your faces and to enter the masjid [i.e., the temple in Jerusalem], as they entered it the first time, and to destroy what they had taken over with [total] destruction.

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