Text of verse 18:70
قَالَ فَإِنِ ٱتَّبَعْتَنِى فَلَا تَسْـَٔلْنِى عَن شَىْءٍ حَتَّىٰٓ أُحْدِثَ لَكَ مِنْهُ ذِكْرًا ٧٠
Transliteration
qāla fa-ini ittabaʿtanī falā tasalnī ʿan shayin ḥattā uḥ'ditha laka min'hu dhik'ran
Translation
He said, "Then if you follow me, do not ask me about anything until I make to you about it mention [i.e., explanation]."
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Verse 70 of Surah Al-Kahf (18:70), a Meccan surah, is in juz 15, on page 301 of the mushaf. Read it in Arabic with its transliteration, translations and tafsir, and listen to it recited by 73 reciters.
Tafsir of verse 70
Al-Mukhtasar
Khidr said to Moses: If you follow me, then do not ask me about anything that you see me doing until I myself tell you the reason.
Tafsir of the whole Surah Al-Kahf
Other translations of verse 70
He said, “Then if you follow me, do not ask me about anything until I mention it to you.”
He (Khidr) said: "Then, if you follow me, ask me not about anything till I myself mention of it to you."
He said: Well, if thou go with me, ask me not concerning aught till I myself make mention of it unto thee.
The other said: "If then thou wouldst follow me, ask me no questions about anything until I myself speak to thee concerning it."
He said: If you would follow me, then do not question me about any thing until I myself speak to you about it
Said he, "So in case you closely follow me, then do not ask me about anything until I (myself) effect a mention of it to you."
Verse 70 word by word
قَالَ
qāla He said ق و ل
فَإِنِ
fa-ini Then if
ٱتَّبَعْتَنِى
ittabaʿtanī you follow me ت ب ع
فَلَا
falā (do) not
تَسْـَٔلْنِى
tasalnī ask me س أ ل
عَن
ʿan about
شَىْءٍ
shayin anything ش ي أ
حَتَّىٰٓ
ḥattā until
أُحْدِثَ
uḥ'ditha I present ح د ث
لَكَ
laka to you
مِنْهُ
min'hu of it
ذِكْرًا
dhik'ran a mention ذ ك ر
Hadiths that cite this verse
Authentic
Muttafaq ‘alayh (Bukhari and Muslim) Jami' at-Tirmidhi 3149
" يَرْحَمُ اللَّهُ مُوسَى لَوَدِدْنَا أَنَّهُ كَانَ صَبَرَ حَتَّى يَقُصَّ عَلَيْنَا مِنْ أَخْبَارِهِمَا " . قَالَ وَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم " الأُولَى كَانَتْ مِنْ مُوسَى نِسْيَانٌ - قَالَ…
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