Text of verse 78:3
ٱلَّذِى هُمْ فِيهِ مُخْتَلِفُونَ ٣
Transliteration
alladhī hum fīhi mukh'talifūna
Translation
That over which they are in disagreement.
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Mahmoud Khalil Al-Hussary
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Surah An-Naba, Verse 3
سورة النبإ، الآية ٣
Verse 3 of Surah An-Naba (78:3), a Meccan surah, is in juz 30, on page 582 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 3
Al-Mukhtasar
This Qur’ān that they differ in how they should describe it: is it sorcery, poetry, fortune-telling or the tales of old?
Other translations of verse 3
that which they differ about2.
Notes
[2] The pagans of Makkah denied the Qur’an, resurrection, and judgment. They differed as to whether the Qur’an was magic, fortune-telling, or poetry.
About which they are in disagreement.
Concerning which they are in disagreement.
About which they cannot agree.
About which they differ?
Concerning which they (continue) differing among themselves.
Verse 3 word by word
- ٱلَّذِى alladhī (About) which
- هُمْ hum they
- فِيهِ fīhi (are) concerning it
- مُخْتَلِفُونَ mukh'talifūna (in) disagreement خ ل ف
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An-Naml 27:76
إِنَّ هَٰذَا ٱلْقُرْءَانَ يَقُصُّ عَلَىٰ بَنِىٓ إِسْرَٰٓءِيلَ أَكْثَرَ ٱلَّذِى هُمْ فِيهِ يَخْتَلِفُونَ
Indeed, this Qur’ān relates to the Children of Israel most of that over which they disagree.