سورة الكهف، الآية ٨١
فَأَرَدْنَآ أَن يُبْدِلَهُمَا رَبُّهُمَا خَيْرًا مِّنْهُ زَكَوٰةً وَأَقْرَبَ رُحْمًا ٨١
fa-aradnā an yub'dilahumā rabbuhumā khayran min'hu zakatan wa-aqraba ruḥ'man
So we intended that their Lord should substitute for them one better than him in purity and nearer to mercy.
Verse 81 of Surah Al-Kahf (18:81), 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.
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So I wanted Allah to replace them with a child better than him in religion, piety and purity from sins, and more merciful to his parents.
So we hoped that their Lord would give them another in his place, more righteous and tender-hearted.
"So we intended that their Lord should change him for them for one better in righteousness and nearer to mercy.
And we intended that their Lord should change him for them for one better in purity and nearer to mercy.
"So we desired that their Lord would give them in exchange (a son) better in purity (of conduct) and closer in affection.
So we desired that their Lord might give them in his place one better than him in purity and nearer to having compassion.
So we willingly (intended) that their Lord would give them (both) in exchange a more charitable (person) in cleansing (i.e., a better, purer son) than he and nearer in tenderness.
2 hadiths cite this verse; their text is in Arabic.
