Text of verse 68:4
وَإِنَّكَ لَعَلَىٰ خُلُقٍ عَظِيمٍ ٤
Transliteration
wa-innaka laʿalā khuluqin ʿaẓīmin
Translation
And indeed, you are of a great moral character.
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Mahmoud Khalil Al-Hussary
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Surah Al-Qalam, Verse 4
سورة القلم، الآية ٤
Verse 4 of Surah Al-Qalam (68:4), a Meccan surah, is in juz 29, on page 564 of the mushaf. Read it in Arabic with its transliteration, translations and tafsir, and listen to it recited by 74 reciters.
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Tafsir of verse 4
Al-Mukhtasar
And indeed, you are definitely on the greatest of character that the Qur’ān has brought; you are embodied with it to the most perfect degree.
Other translations of verse 4
Indeed, you are of a great moral character.
And Verily, you (O Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم) are on an exalted (standard of) character.
And lo! thou art of a tremendous nature.
And thou (standest) on an exalted standard of character.
And most surely you conform (yourself) to sublime morality.
And surely you are indeed of a magnificent character.
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Hadiths that cite this verse
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Sunan Ibn Majah 2333
'I said to 'Aishah: Tell me about the character of the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ).' She said: 'Have you not read the Qur'an: “And verily, you (O Mohammed {SAW}) are on an exalted (standard of) character?” She said: 'The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) was with his Companions, and I made some food for him, and…
أَوَمَا تَقْرَأُ الْقُرْآنَ {وَإِنَّكَ لَعَلَى خُلُقٍ عَظِيمٍ} قَالَتْ كَانَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم مَعَ أَصْحَابِهِ فَصَنَعْتُ لَهُ طَعَامًا وَصَنَعَتْ حَفْصَةُ لَهُ طَعَامًا . قَالَتْ فَسَبَقَتْنِي…