Text of verse 18:75
قَالَ أَلَمْ أَقُل لَّكَ إِنَّكَ لَن تَسْتَطِيعَ مَعِىَ صَبْرًا ٧٥
Transliteration
qāla alam aqul laka innaka lan tastaṭīʿa maʿiya ṣabran
Translation
[Al-Khiḍr] said, "Did I not tell you that with me you would never be able to have patience?"
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Verse 75 of Surah Al-Kahf (18:75), a Meccan surah, is in juz 16, on page 302 of the mushaf. Read it in Arabic with its transliteration, translations and tafsir, and listen to it recited by 73 reciters.
Tafsir of verse 75
Al-Mukhtasar
Khidr said to Moses (peace be upon him): “I had said To You: O Moses, you will never be able to bear the matter I will carry out”.
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Other translations of verse 75
The man said, “Did I not tell you that you will never be able to have patience with me?”
(Khidr) said: "Did I not tell you that you can have no patience with me?"
He said: Did I not tell thee that thou couldst not bear with me?
He answered: "Did I not tell thee that thou canst have no patience with me?"
He said: Did I not say to you that you will not be able to have patience with me?
Said he, "Did I not say to you that surely you would never be able to (endure) with me patiently?"
Verse 75 word by word
قَالَ
qāla He said ق و ل
أَلَمْ
alam Did not
أَقُل
aqul I say ق و ل
لَّكَ
laka to you
إِنَّكَ
innaka that you
لَن
lan never
تَسْتَطِيعَ
tastaṭīʿa will be able ط و ع
مَعِىَ
maʿiya with me
صَبْرًا
ṣabran (to have) patience ص ب ر
Hadiths that cite this verse
Authentic
Muttafaq ‘alayh (Bukhari and Muslim) Sahih al-Bukhari 4727
قَامَ مُوسَى خَطِيبًا فِي بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ فَقِيلَ لَهُ أَىُّ النَّاسِ أَعْلَمُ قَالَ أَنَا، فَعَتَبَ اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ، إِذْ لَمْ يَرُدَّ الْعِلْمَ إِلَيْهِ، وَأَوْحَى إِلَيْهِ بَلَى عَبْدٌ مِنْ عِبَادِي بِمَجْمَعِ…
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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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Al-Kahf 18:67
قَالَ إِنَّكَ لَن تَسْتَطِيعَ مَعِىَ صَبْرًا
He said, "Indeed, with me you will never be able to have patience.
Al-Kahf 18:72
قَالَ أَلَمْ أَقُلْ إِنَّكَ لَن تَسْتَطِيعَ مَعِىَ صَبْرًا
[Al-Khiḍr] said, "Did I not say that with me you would never be able to have patience?"
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