Text of verse 68:28
قَالَ أَوْسَطُهُمْ أَلَمْ أَقُل لَّكُمْ لَوْلَا تُسَبِّحُونَ ٢٨
Transliteration
qāla awsaṭuhum alam aqul lakum lawlā tusabbiḥūna
Translation
The most moderate of them said, "Did I not say to you, 'Why do you not exalt [Allāh]?'"1729
Notes [1729] i.e., remember or mention Him by saying, "...if Allāh wills." An additional meaning is "praise" or "thank" Him for His bounty.
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Salomo Keyzer
Abubakar Mahmoud Gumi
محمد جوناگڑھی
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Ali Muhsin Al-Barwani
Hamza Roberto Piccardo
মুহিউদ্দীন খান
Rowwad Tercüme Merkezi Şaban Piriş Ali Özek ve arkadaşları Elmalılı Hamdi Yazır
Kementerian Agama RI
Mahmud Muhammad Abduh
حسین تاجی گلهداری
Abdullah Muhammad Basmeih
Sherif Ahmeti
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馬堅
Ivan Hrbek
Ahsen Böre
三田了一
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Verse 28 of Surah Al-Qalam (68:28), a Meccan surah, is in juz 29, on page 565 of the mushaf. Read it in Arabic with its transliteration, translations and tafsir, and listen to it recited by 74 reciters.
Tafsir of verse 28
Al-Mukhtasar
The most virtuous among them said, “Did I not tell you when you made up your mind to prevent the poor from your crops: “Why do you not glorify Allah and repent to Him?””
Tafsir of the whole Surah Al-Qalam
Other translations of verse 28
The best among them said, “Did I not say to you to glorify Allah6 ?”
Notes [6] i.e., remember Him by saying, "...if Allah wills." Or "praise" and "thank" Allah for His bounty.
The best among them said: "Did I not tell you: why say you not: Inshâ’ Allâh (If Allâh wills)."
The best among them said: Said I not unto you: Why glorify ye not (Allah)?
Said one of them, more just (than the rest): "Did I not say to you, 'Why not glorify (Allah)?'"
The best of them said: Did I not say to you, Why do you not glorify (Allah)?
Said the most moderate of them, "Did I not say to you: Had you only extolled (Him)!"
Verse 28 word by word
قَالَ
qāla Said ق و ل
أَوْسَطُهُمْ
awsaṭuhum (the) most moderate of them و س ط
أَلَمْ
alam Did not
أَقُل
aqul I tell ق و ل
لَّكُمْ
lakum you
لَوْلَا
lawlā 'Why not
تُسَبِّحُونَ
tusabbiḥūna you glorify (Allah)?' س ب ح
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Surah Al-Qalam
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52 verses · Meccan