Text of verse 27:11
إِلَّا مَن ظَلَمَ ثُمَّ بَدَّلَ حُسْنًۢا بَعْدَ سُوٓءٍ فَإِنِّى غَفُورٌ رَّحِيمٌ ١١
Transliteration
illā man ẓalama thumma baddala ḥus'nan baʿda sūin fa-innī ghafūrun raḥīmun
Translation
Otherwise, he who wrongs, then substitutes good after evil - indeed, I am Forgiving and Merciful.
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Rachid Maach Nabil Radwan (Noor International) Muhammad Hamidullah
Isa García Noor International (España) Noor International (Latinoamérica) Julio Cortés
Salomo Keyzer
Abubakar Mahmoud Gumi
محمد جوناگڑھی
Bubenheim & Elias
Ali Muhsin Al-Barwani
Hamza Roberto Piccardo
মুহিউদ্দীন খান
Rowwad Tercüme Merkezi Şaban Piriş Ali Özek ve arkadaşları Elmalılı Hamdi Yazır
Kementerian Agama RI
Mahmud Muhammad Abduh
حسین تاجی گلهداری
Abdullah Muhammad Basmeih
Sherif Ahmeti
Məmmədəliyev & Bünyadov
Besim Korkut
馬堅
Ivan Hrbek
Ahsen Böre
三田了一
최영길
Abdul Hameed & Parappoor
Abdulaziz Guroalim Saromantang
Einar Berg
Józef Bielawski
Samir El-Hayek
George Grigore
Эльмир Кулиев
Knut Bernström
ஜான் டிரஸ்ட்
Якуб ибн Нугман
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Муҳаммад Содиқ Муҳаммад Юсуф
Verse 11 of Surah An-Naml (27:11), a Meccan surah, is in juz 19, on page 377 of the mushaf. Read it in Arabic with its transliteration, translations and tafsir, and listen to it recited by 73 reciters.
Tafsir of verse 11
Al-Mukhtasar
However, whoever wrongs himself by committing a sin, then repents after that, I am Forgiving to him, Merciful to him.
Tafsir of the whole Surah An-Naml
Other translations of verse 11
except he who does wrong, then substitutes good for evil, then I am indeed All-Forgiving, Most Merciful.
"Except him who has done wrong and afterwards has changed evil for good; then surely, I am Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful.
Save him who hath done wrong and afterward hath changed evil for good. And lo! I am Forgiving, Merciful.
"But if any have done wrong and have thereafter substituted good to take the place of evil, truly, I am Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful.
Neither he who has been unjust, then he does good instead after evil, for surely I am the Forgiving, the Merciful:
Except him who has done (an) injustice, (and) thereafter substituted fair (deeds) for odious (deeds). Then surely I am Ever-Forgiving, Ever-Merciful.
Verse 11 word by word
إِلَّا
illā Except
مَن
man who
ظَلَمَ
ẓalama wrongs ظ ل م
ثُمَّ
thumma then
بَدَّلَ
baddala substitutes ب د ل
حُسْنًۢا
ḥus'nan good ح س ن
بَعْدَ
baʿda after ب ع د
سُوٓءٍ
sūin evil س و أ
فَإِنِّى
fa-innī then indeed, I Am
غَفُورٌ
ghafūrun Oft-Forgiving غ ف ر
رَّحِيمٌ
raḥīmun Most Merciful ر ح م
Verses related to verse 11
Cited by Ibn Kathir in his explanation of this verse
Taha 20:82
وَإِنِّى لَغَفَّارٌ لِّمَن تَابَ وَءَامَنَ وَعَمِلَ صَٰلِحًا ثُمَّ ٱهْتَدَىٰ
But indeed, I am the Perpetual Forgiver of whoever repents and believes and does righteousness and then continues in guidance.
An-Nisa 4:110
وَمَن يَعْمَلْ سُوٓءًا أَوْ يَظْلِمْ نَفْسَهُۥ ثُمَّ يَسْتَغْفِرِ ٱللَّهَ يَجِدِ ٱللَّهَ غَفُورًا رَّحِيمًا
And whoever does a wrong or wrongs himself but then seeks forgiveness of Allāh will find Allāh Forgiving and Merciful.
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Surah An-Naml
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93 verses · Meccan