Text of verse 72:18
وَأَنَّ ٱلْمَسَٰجِدَ لِلَّهِ فَلَا تَدْعُوا۟ مَعَ ٱللَّهِ أَحَدًا ١٨
Transliteration
wa-anna l-masājida lillahi falā tadʿū maʿa l-lahi aḥadan
Translation
And [He revealed] that the masjids1772 are for Allāh, so do not invoke1773 with Allāh anyone.
Notes [1772] The term "masjid" here includes every place of worship or the earth in general.
[1773] Or "worship."
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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
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Муҳаммад Содиқ Муҳаммад Юсуф
Verse 18 of Surah Al-Jinn (72:18), a Meccan surah, is in juz 29, on page 573 of the mushaf. Read it in Arabic with its transliteration, translations and tafsir, and listen to it recited by 74 reciters.
Tafsir of verse 18
Al-Mukhtasar
And that the mosques belong to Him (may He be glorified) and not to anyone else. So do not call on anyone together with Allah and become like the Jews and the Christians in their synagogues and churches.
Tafsir of the whole Surah Al-Jinn
Other translations of verse 18
The mosques9 are for Allah alone, so do not supplicate anyone along with Allah.
Notes [9] "Masjid" here means every place of worship on earth.
And the mosques are for Allâh (Alone): so invoke not anyone along with Allâh.3
Notes [3] (V.72:18) See the footnote of (V.2:165).
And the places of worship are only for Allah, so pray not unto anyone along with Allah.
"And the places of worship are for Allah (alone): So invoke not any one along with Allah;
And that the mosques are Allah's, therefore call not upon any one with Allah:
And that the mosques belong to Allah; so do not invoke, along with Allah, anyone.
Verse 18 word by word
وَأَنَّ
wa-anna And that
ٱلْمَسَٰجِدَ
l-masājida the masjids س ج د
لِلَّهِ
lillahi (are) for Allah
فَلَا
falā so (do) not
تَدْعُوا۟
tadʿū call د ع و
مَعَ
maʿa with
ٱللَّهِ
l-lahi Allah
أَحَدًا
aḥadan anyone أ ح د
Verses related to verse 18
Cited by Ibn Kathir in his explanation of this verse
Al-Ma’idah 5:67
يَٰٓأَيُّهَا ٱلرَّسُولُ بَلِّغْ مَآ أُنزِلَ إِلَيْكَ مِن رَّبِّكَ وَإِن لَّمْ تَفْعَلْ فَمَا بَلَّغْتَ رِسَالَتَهُۥ وَٱللَّهُ يَعْصِمُكَ مِنَ ٱلنَّاسِ إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ لَا يَهْدِى ٱلْقَوْمَ ٱلْكَٰفِرِينَ
O Messenger, announce that which has been revealed to you from your Lord, and if you do not, then you have not conveyed His message. And Allāh will protect you from the people. Indeed, Allāh does not guide the disbelieving people.
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