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Surah An-Nahl, Verse 7

سورة النحل، الآية ٧

16:7 Juz 14 Hizb 27 Page 268 of the mushaf Meccan surah

Text of verse 16:7

وَتَحْمِلُ أَثْقَالَكُمْ إِلَىٰ بَلَدٍ لَّمْ تَكُونُوا۟ بَٰلِغِيهِ إِلَّا بِشِقِّ ٱلْأَنفُسِ إِنَّ رَبَّكُمْ لَرَءُوفٌ رَّحِيمٌ ۝٧

Transliteration

wataḥmilu athqālakum ilā baladin lam takūnū bālighīhi illā bishiqqi l-anfusi inna rabbakum laraūfun raḥīmun

Translation

And they carry your loads to a land you could not have reached except with difficulty to yourselves. Indeed, your Lord is Kind and Merciful.

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Verse 7 of Surah An-Nahl (16:7), a Meccan surah, is in juz 14, on page 268 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 7

Al-Mukhtasar

These livestock that We created for you carry your heavy goods when you travel to places that you would only be able to reach after bearing great hardship on yourselves. Your Lord - O People - is Kind and Merciful to you as He has subjugated these livestock to you.

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Other translations of verse 7

And they carry your heavy loads to lands that you could not reach without great hardship. Indeed, your Lord is Most Gracious, Most Merciful.

And they carry your loads to a land that you could not reach except with great trouble to yourselves. Truly, your Lord is full of Kindness, Most Merciful.

And they bear your loads for you unto a land ye could not reach save with great trouble to yourselves. Lo! your Lord is Full of Pity, Merciful.

And they carry your heavyloads to lands that ye could not (otherwise) reach except with souls distressed: for your Lord is indeed Most Kind, Most Merciful,

And they carry your heavy loads to regions which you could not reach but with distress of the souls; most surely your Lord is Compassionate, Merciful.

And they carry your heavy (burdens) to land you could not have reached excepting with arduous (effort) (Literally: arduous "effort upon yourselves). Surely your Lord is indeed Ever-Compassionate, Ever-Merciful.

Verse 7 word by word

  1. وَتَحْمِلُ wataḥmilu And they carry ح م ل
  2. أَثْقَالَكُمْ athqālakum your loads ث ق ل
  3. إِلَىٰ ilā to
  4. بَلَدٍ baladin a land ب ل د
  5. لَّمْ lam not
  6. تَكُونُوا۟ takūnū you could ك و ن
  7. بَٰلِغِيهِ bālighīhi reach it ب ل غ
  8. إِلَّا illā except
  9. بِشِقِّ bishiqqi with great trouble ش ق ق
  10. ٱلْأَنفُسِ l-anfusi (to) yourselves ن ف س
  11. إِنَّ inna Indeed
  12. رَبَّكُمْ rabbakum your Lord ر ب ب
  13. لَرَءُوفٌ laraūfun surely is Most Kind ر أ ف
  14. رَّحِيمٌ raḥīmun Most Merciful ر ح م

Verses related to verse 7

Cited by Ibn Kathir in his explanation of this verse

  • Ghafir 40:81

    وَيُرِيكُمْ ءَايَٰتِهِۦ فَأَىَّ ءَايَٰتِ ٱللَّهِ تُنكِرُونَ

    And He shows you His signs. So which of the signs of Allāh do you deny?

  • Ghafir 40:79

    ٱللَّهُ ٱلَّذِى جَعَلَ لَكُمُ ٱلْأَنْعَٰمَ لِتَرْكَبُوا۟ مِنْهَا وَمِنْهَا تَأْكُلُونَ

    It is Allāh who made for you the grazing animals upon which you ride, and some of them you eat.

  • Ya-Sin 36:71–72

    أَوَلَمْ يَرَوْا۟ أَنَّا خَلَقْنَا لَهُم مِّمَّا عَمِلَتْ أَيْدِينَآ أَنْعَٰمًا فَهُمْ لَهَا مَٰلِكُونَ …

    Do they not see that We have created for them from what Our hands have made, grazing livestock, and [then] they are their owners? …

  • Az-Zukhruf 43:12–14

    وَٱلَّذِى خَلَقَ ٱلْأَزْوَٰجَ كُلَّهَا وَجَعَلَ لَكُم مِّنَ ٱلْفُلْكِ وَٱلْأَنْعَٰمِ مَا تَرْكَبُونَ …

    And who created the species, all of them, and has made for you of ships and animals those which you mount …

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