سورة المؤمنون، الآية ٧
فَمَنِ ٱبْتَغَىٰ وَرَآءَ ذَٰلِكَ فَأُو۟لَٰٓئِكَ هُمُ ٱلْعَادُونَ ٧
famani ib'taghā warāa dhālika fa-ulāika humu l-ʿādūna
But whoever seeks beyond that, then those are the transgressors -
Verse 7 of Surah Al-Mu’minun (23:7), a Meccan surah, is in juz 18, on page 342 of the mushaf. Read it in Arabic with its transliteration, translations and tafsir, and listen to it recited by 73 reciters.
79 recitations by 73 reciters: pick one and it plays in the player.
So whosoever seeks pleasure from other than his wives and female servants that he possesses, he is transgressing the limits of Allah by delving into that which Allah has forbidden, without keeping to that which He has kept lawful.
But whoever seeks anything beyond that, it is they who are the transgressors.
But whoever seeks beyond that, then those are the transgressors;
But whoso craveth beyond that, such are transgressors -
But those whose desires exceed those limits are transgressors;-
But whoever seeks to go beyond that, these are they that exceed the limits;
Then whoever inequitably seeks beyond that, then those are the aggressors themselves-
They share a sequence of words with this verse: useful for telling them apart when memorising.
فَمَنِ ٱبْتَغَىٰ وَرَآءَ ذَٰلِكَ فَأُو۟لَٰٓئِكَ هُمُ ٱلْعَادُونَ
But whoever seeks beyond that, then they are the transgressors -
