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Surah Al-Mu’minun, Verse 46

سورة المؤمنون، الآية ٤٦

23:46 Juz 18 Hizb 35 Page 345 of the mushaf Meccan surah

Text of verse 23:46

إِلَىٰ فِرْعَوْنَ وَمَلَإِي۟هِۦ فَٱسْتَكْبَرُوا۟ وَكَانُوا۟ قَوْمًا عَالِينَ ۝٤٦

Transliteration

ilā fir'ʿawna wamala-ihi fa-is'takbarū wakānū qawman ʿālīna

Translation

To Pharaoh and his establishment, but they were arrogant and were a haughty people.

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Verse 46 of Surah Al-Mu’minun (23:46), a Meccan surah, is in juz 18, on page 345 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 46

Al-Mukhtasar

I sent them both to Pharaoh and the noblemen of his people, but they displayed arrogance and did not submit to believing in them. They were a people who imposed themselves upon people by subduing and oppressing them.

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Other translations of verse 46

to Pharaoh and his chiefs, but they showed arrogance and were haughty people.

To Fir‘aun (Pharaoh) and his chiefs, but they behaved insolently and they were people self-exalting (by disobeying their Lord, and exalting themselves over and above the Messenger of Allâh).

Unto Pharaoh and his chiefs, but they scorned (them) and they were despotic folk.

To Pharaoh and his Chiefs: But these behaved insolently: they were an arrogant people.

To Firon and his chiefs, but they behaved haughtily and they were an insolent people.

To Firaawn (Pharaoh) and his chiefs. Yet they waxed proud, and they were an exalted people.

Verse 46 word by word

  1. إِلَىٰ ilā To
  2. فِرْعَوْنَ fir'ʿawna Firaun
  3. وَمَلَإِي۟هِۦ wamala-ihi and his chiefs م ل أ
  4. فَٱسْتَكْبَرُوا۟ fa-is'takbarū but they behaved arrogantly ك ب ر
  5. وَكَانُوا۟ wakānū and they were ك و ن
  6. قَوْمًا qawman a people ق و م
  7. عَالِينَ ʿālīna haughty ع ل و

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Cited by Ibn Kathir in his explanation of this verse

  • Al-Qasas 28:43

    وَلَقَدْ ءَاتَيْنَا مُوسَى ٱلْكِتَٰبَ مِنۢ بَعْدِ مَآ أَهْلَكْنَا ٱلْقُرُونَ ٱلْأُولَىٰ بَصَآئِرَ لِلنَّاسِ وَهُدًى وَرَحْمَةً لَّعَلَّهُمْ يَتَذَكَّرُونَ

    And We gave Moses the Scripture, after We had destroyed the former generations, as enlightenment for the people and guidance and mercy that they might be reminded.

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