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Surah Al-Qasas, Verse 21

سورة القصص، الآية ٢١

28:21 Juz 20 Hizb 39 Page 387 of the mushaf Meccan surah

Text of verse 28:21

فَخَرَجَ مِنْهَا خَآئِفًا يَتَرَقَّبُ قَالَ رَبِّ نَجِّنِى مِنَ ٱلْقَوْمِ ٱلظَّٰلِمِينَ ۝٢١

Transliteration

fakharaja min'hā khāifan yataraqqabu qāla rabbi najjinī mina l-qawmi l-ẓālimīna

Translation

So he left it, fearful and anticipating [apprehension]. He said, "My Lord, save me from the wrongdoing people."

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Verse 21 of Surah Al-Qasas (28:21), a Meccan surah, is in juz 20, on page 387 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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Tafsir of verse 21

Al-Mukhtasar

So Moses acted according to the instruction of the well-wishing man and left the city in fear and anxiety over what may happen. He said, beseeching his Lord, “O my Lord! save me from the oppressive nation, so that they cannot harm me.”

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Other translations of verse 21

So he left the city, fearful and vigilant. He said, “My Lord, save me from the wrongdoing people.”

So he escaped from there, looking about in a state of fear. He said: "My Lord! Save me from the people who are Zâlimûn (polytheists and wrong-doers)!"

So he escaped from thence, fearing, vigilant. He said: My Lord! Deliver me from the wrongdoing folk.

He therefore got away therefrom, looking about, in a state of fear. He prayed "O my Lord! save me from people given to wrong-doing."

So he went forth therefrom, fearing, awaiting, (and) he said: My Lord! deliver me from the unjust people.

So he went out of it, frightened and on the watch. He said, "Lord! Safely deliver me from the unjust people."

Verse 21 word by word

  1. فَخَرَجَ fakharaja So he left خ ر ج
  2. مِنْهَا min'hā from it
  3. خَآئِفًا khāifan fearing خ و ف
  4. يَتَرَقَّبُ yataraqqabu (and) vigilant ر ق ب
  5. قَالَ qāla He said ق و ل
  6. رَبِّ rabbi My Lord ر ب ب
  7. نَجِّنِى najjinī Save me ن ج و
  8. مِنَ mina from
  9. ٱلْقَوْمِ l-qawmi the people ق و م
  10. ٱلظَّٰلِمِينَ l-ẓālimīna the wrongdoers ظ ل م

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