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Surah Al-Mu’minun, Verse 42

سورة المؤمنون، الآية ٤٢

23:42 Juz 18 Hizb 35 Page 344 of the mushaf Meccan surah

Text of verse 23:42

ثُمَّ أَنشَأْنَا مِنۢ بَعْدِهِمْ قُرُونًا ءَاخَرِينَ ۝٤٢

Transliteration

thumma anshanā min baʿdihim qurūnan ākharīna

Translation

Then We produced after them other generations.

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Verse 42 of Surah Al-Mu’minun (23:42), a Meccan surah, is in juz 18, on page 344 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 42

Al-Mukhtasar

Then, after destroying them, I created other peoples and nations, like the nation of Lot, Shu‘ayb and Jonah.

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Other translations of verse 42

Then We raised after them other generations.

Then, after them, We created other generations.

Then after them We brought forth other generations.

Then We raised after them other generations.

Then We raised after them other generations.

Thereafter even after them, We brought into being other generations.

Verse 42 word by word

  1. ثُمَّ thumma Then
  2. أَنشَأْنَا anshanā We produced ن ش أ
  3. مِنۢ min after them
  4. بَعْدِهِمْ baʿdihim after them ب ع د
  5. قُرُونًا qurūnan a generation ق ر ن
  6. ءَاخَرِينَ ākharīna another أ خ ر

Verses related to verse 42

Cited by Ibn Kathir in his explanation of this verse

  • Az-Zukhruf 43:76

    وَمَا ظَلَمْنَٰهُمْ وَلَٰكِن كَانُوا۟ هُمُ ٱلظَّٰلِمِينَ

    And We did not wrong them, but it was they who were the wrongdoers.

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  • Al-Mu’minun 23:31

    ثُمَّ أَنشَأْنَا مِنۢ بَعْدِهِمْ قَرْنًا ءَاخَرِينَ

    Then We produced after them a generation of others.

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