سورة المؤمنون، الآية ٨١
بَلْ قَالُوا۟ مِثْلَ مَا قَالَ ٱلْأَوَّلُونَ ٨١
bal qālū mith'la mā qāla l-awalūna
Rather,966 they say like what the former peoples said.
[966] Instead of understanding or reasoning.
Verse 81 of Surah Al-Mu’minun (23:81), a Meccan surah, is in juz 18, on page 347 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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But they said what their forefathers and predecessors in disbelief said.
But37 they say the like of what the earlier peoples said.
[37] Instead of using their understanding and reason.
Nay, but they say the like of what the men of old said.
Nay, but they say the like of that which said the men of old;
On the contrary they say things similar to what the ancients said.
Nay, they say the like of what the ancients said:
No indeed, (but) they said the like of what the earliest (people) said.
أَءِذَا كُنَّا عِظَٰمًا نَّخِرَةً …
Even if we should be decayed bones?" …
أَوَلَمْ يَرَ ٱلْإِنسَٰنُ أَنَّا خَلَقْنَٰهُ مِن نُّطْفَةٍ فَإِذَا هُوَ خَصِيمٌ مُّبِينٌ …
Does man not consider that We created him from a [mere] sperm-drop - then at once he is a clear adversary? …
