سورة المؤمنون، الآية ٩٦
ٱدْفَعْ بِٱلَّتِى هِىَ أَحْسَنُ ٱلسَّيِّئَةَ نَحْنُ أَعْلَمُ بِمَا يَصِفُونَ ٩٦
id'faʿ bi-allatī hiya aḥsanu l-sayi-ata naḥnu aʿlamu bimā yaṣifūna
Repel, by [means of] what is best, [their] evil. We are most knowing of what they describe.
Verse 96 of Surah Al-Mu’minun (23:96), a Meccan surah, is in juz 18, on page 348 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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O Messenger, repel the one who is bad to you by the characteristic which is better, namely turning away from him and being patient with his harm. I know best the associating partners and denial they describe, and the unbefitting things they describe you with such as magic and insanity.
Repel evil with what is best; We know well what they claim43.
[43] That there are other gods besides Allah, and that the Prophet is a liar, a poet, etc.
Repel evil with that which is better. We are Best-Acquainted with the things they utter.
Repel evil with that which is better. We are Best Aware of that which they allege.
Repel evil with that which is best: We are well acquainted with the things they say.
Repel evil by what is best; We know best what they describe.
Repel the odious (act) with that which is fairest. We, Ever We, know best whatever they describe.
وَلَا تَسْتَوِى ٱلْحَسَنَةُ وَلَا ٱلسَّيِّئَةُ ٱدْفَعْ بِٱلَّتِى هِىَ أَحْسَنُ فَإِذَا ٱلَّذِى بَيْنَكَ وَبَيْنَهُۥ عَدَٰوَةٌ كَأَنَّهُۥ وَلِىٌّ حَمِيمٌ …
And not equal are the good deed and the bad. Repel [evil] by that [deed] which is better; and thereupon, the one whom between you and him is enmity [will become] as though he was a devoted friend. …
