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Surah Al-Ma’idah, Verse 25

سورة المائدة، الآية ٢٥

5:25 Juz 6 Hizb 11 Page 112 of the mushaf Medinan surah

Text of verse 5:25

قَالَ رَبِّ إِنِّى لَآ أَمْلِكُ إِلَّا نَفْسِى وَأَخِى فَٱفْرُقْ بَيْنَنَا وَبَيْنَ ٱلْقَوْمِ ٱلْفَٰسِقِينَ ۝٢٥

Transliteration

qāla rabbi innī lā amliku illā nafsī wa-akhī fa-uf'ruq baynanā wabayna l-qawmi l-fāsiqīna

Translation

[Moses] said, "My Lord, indeed I do not possess [i.e., control] except myself and my brother, so part us255 from the defiantly disobedient people."

Notes

[255] Or "distinguish us" or "judge between us."

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Verse 25 of Surah Al-Ma’idah (5:25), a Medinan surah, is in juz 6, on page 112 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 25

Al-Mukhtasar

Moses said to his Lord, ‘O Lord, I have no authority over anyone besides myself and my brother, Aaron. So separate us from those who do not obey You and Your messenger’.

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Other translations of verse 25

He said, “O my Lord, I have no control over anyone except myself and my brother, so separate us from these rebellious people.”

He [Mûsâ (Moses)] said: "O my Lord! I have power only over myself and my brother, so separate us from the people who are the Fâsiqûn (rebellious and disobedient to Allâh)!"

He said: My Lord! I have control of none but myself and my brother, so distinguish between us and the wrong-doing folk.

He said: "O my Lord! I have power only over myself and my brother: so separate us from this rebellious people!"

He said: My Lord! Surely I have no control (upon any) but my own self and my brother; therefore make a separation between us and the nation of transgressors.

He said, "Lord! Surely I possess (no authority) on anyone except myself and my brother. So distinguish between us (Literally: part between us and "between") and the immoral people.

Verse 25 word by word

  1. قَالَ qāla He said ق و ل
  2. رَبِّ rabbi O my Lord ر ب ب
  3. إِنِّى innī Indeed, I
  4. لَآ lā (do) not
  5. أَمْلِكُ amliku (have) power م ل ك
  6. إِلَّا illā except
  7. نَفْسِى nafsī (over) myself ن ف س
  8. وَأَخِى wa-akhī and my brother أ خ و
  9. فَٱفْرُقْ fa-uf'ruq so (make a) separation ف ر ق
  10. بَيْنَنَا baynanā between us ب ي ن
  11. وَبَيْنَ wabayna and between ب ي ن
  12. ٱلْقَوْمِ l-qawmi the people ق و م
  13. ٱلْفَٰسِقِينَ l-fāsiqīna (the) defiantly disobedient ف س ق

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