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Surah Al-Qalam, Verse 9

سورة القلم، الآية ٩

68:9 Juz 29 Hizb 57 Page 564 of the mushaf Meccan surah

Text of verse 68:9

وَدُّوا۟ لَوْ تُدْهِنُ فَيُدْهِنُونَ ۝٩

Transliteration

waddū law tud'hinu fayud'hinūna

Translation

They wish that you would soften [in your position], so they would soften [toward you].

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Verse 9 of Surah Al-Qalam (68:9), 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 9

Al-Mukhtasar

They wish that you were soft and compromising towards them in matters of religion, so they can be soft and kind to you in return.

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Other translations of verse 9

They wish that you would compromise so they would too compromise.

They wish that you should compromise (in religion out of courtesy) with them: so they (too) would compromise with you.

Who would have had thee compromise, that they may compromise.

Their desire is that thou shouldst be pliant: so would they be pliant.

They wish that you should be pliant so they (too) would be pliant.

They would like (if) you would dissimulate, then they would dissimulate.

Verse 9 word by word

  1. وَدُّوا۟ waddū They wish و د د
  2. لَوْ law that
  3. تُدْهِنُ tud'hinu you should compromise د ه ن
  4. فَيُدْهِنُونَ fayud'hinūna so they would compromise د ه ن

Hadiths that cite this verse

Authentic Riyad as-Salihin 1531

A man asked permission to see the Prophet (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him). Thereupon, he said: Let him in. What an evil brother of his people he is!

A man asked permission to see the Prophet (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him). Thereupon, he said: "Let him in. What an evil brother of his people he is!"

عن عائشة رضي الله عنها أن رجلا استأذن على النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم فقال‏:‏ “ائذنوا له، بئس أخو العشيرة‏؟‏ ‏"‏ ‏(‏‏(‏متفق عليه‏)‏‏)‏‏.‏ احتج به البخاري في جواز غيبة أهل الفساد وأهل الريب‏.‏

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