سورة المؤمنون، الآية ٥٣
فَتَقَطَّعُوٓا۟ أَمْرَهُم بَيْنَهُمْ زُبُرًا كُلُّ حِزْبٍۭ بِمَا لَدَيْهِمْ فَرِحُونَ ٥٣
fataqaṭṭaʿū amrahum baynahum zuburan kullu ḥiz'bin bimā ladayhim fariḥūna
But they [i.e., the people] divided their religion among them into portions [i.e., sects] - each faction, in what it has,960 rejoicing.
[960] Of beliefs, opinions, customs, etc.
Verse 53 of Surah Al-Mu’minun (23:53), 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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After they passed away, their followers were divided in religion and became sects and groups, with each group conceited in believing that whatever it believed in was the true acceptable religion according to Allah, disregarding the views of anyone else.
But people split up their religion into factions, each faction rejoicing in what it has24.
[24] Of beliefs, opinions, and customs.
But they (men) have broken their religion among them into sects,2 each group rejoicing in what is with it (as its beliefs).
[2] (V.23:53) See the footnote of (V.3:103).
But they (mankind) have broken their religion among them into sects, each group rejoicing in its tenets.
But people have cut off their affair (of unity), between them, into sects: each party rejoices in that which is with itself.
But they cut off their religion among themselves into sects, each part rejoicing in that which is with them.
Then they cut up their Command among themselves into denominations, (i.e., differed about the command of Allah) each party exulting with whatever they had close to them. (i.e., their tenets)
They share a sequence of words with this verse: useful for telling them apart when memorising.
مِنَ ٱلَّذِينَ فَرَّقُوا۟ دِينَهُمْ وَكَانُوا۟ شِيَعًا كُلُّ حِزْبٍۭ بِمَا لَدَيْهِمْ فَرِحُونَ
[Or] of those who have divided their religion and become sects, every faction rejoicing in what it has.
