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Surah Al-Ma’idah, Verse 74

سورة المائدة، الآية ٧٤

5:74 Juz 6 Hizb 12 Page 120 of the mushaf Medinan surah

Text of verse 5:74

أَفَلَا يَتُوبُونَ إِلَى ٱللَّهِ وَيَسْتَغْفِرُونَهُۥ وَٱللَّهُ غَفُورٌ رَّحِيمٌ ۝٧٤

Transliteration

afalā yatūbūna ilā l-lahi wayastaghfirūnahu wal-lahu ghafūrun raḥīmun

Translation

So will they not repent to Allāh and seek His forgiveness? And Allāh is Forgiving and Merciful.

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Verse 74 of Surah Al-Ma’idah (5:74), a Medinan surah, is in juz 6, on page 120 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 74

Al-Mukhtasar

Will these people not retract this statement, repent to Allah and ask His forgiveness for the idolatry they committed? Allah is Forgiving towards the one who repents, whatever may have been the sin, even if it was disbelief. Allah is Compassionate to the believers.

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Other translations of verse 74

Why do they not turn to Allah in repentance and seek His forgiveness? For Allah is All-Forgiving, Most Merciful.

Will they not turn with repentance to Allâh and ask His Forgiveness? For Allâh is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful.26

Notes

[26] (V.5:74) Narrated Anas bin Mâlik رضي الله عنه : Allâh’s Messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم said; "Allâh is more pleased with the repentance of His slave than anyone of you is pleased with finding his camel which he had lost in a desert." (Sahih Al-Bukhâri, Vol.8, Hadîth No.321).

Will they not rather turn unto Allah and seek forgiveness of Him? For Allah is Forgiving, Merciful.

Why turn they not to Allah, and seek His forgiveness? For Allah is Oft-forgiving, Most Merciful.

Will they not then turn to Allah and ask His forgiveness? And Allah is Forgiving, Merciful.

Will they not then repent to Allah and ask His forgiveness? And Allah is Ever Forgiving, Ever-Merciful.

Verse 74 word by word

  1. أَفَلَا afalā So will not
  2. يَتُوبُونَ yatūbūna they turn in repentance ت و ب
  3. إِلَى ilā to
  4. ٱللَّهِ l-lahi Allah
  5. وَيَسْتَغْفِرُونَهُۥ wayastaghfirūnahu and seek His forgiveness غ ف ر
  6. وَٱللَّهُ wal-lahu And Allah
  7. غَفُورٌ ghafūrun (is) Oft-Forgiving غ ف ر
  8. رَّحِيمٌ raḥīmun Most Merciful ر ح م

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