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Surah An-Naml, Verse 28

سورة النمل، الآية ٢٨

27:28 Juz 19 Hizb 38 Page 379 of the mushaf Meccan surah

Text of verse 27:28

ٱذْهَب بِّكِتَٰبِى هَٰذَا فَأَلْقِهْ إِلَيْهِمْ ثُمَّ تَوَلَّ عَنْهُمْ فَٱنظُرْ مَاذَا يَرْجِعُونَ ۝٢٨

Transliteration

idh'hab bikitābī hādhā fa-alqih ilayhim thumma tawalla ʿanhum fa-unẓur mādhā yarjiʿūna

Translation

Take this letter of mine and deliver it to them. Then leave them and see what [answer] they will return."

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Verse 28 of Surah An-Naml (27:28), a Meccan surah, is in juz 19, on page 379 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 28

Al-Mukhtasar

Take this letter of mine and deliver it to them. Then leave them and see what [answer] they will return." So Solomon wrote a letter and handed it to the hoopoe, and said to it: “Take this letter of mine, and give it to the people of Saba and hand it over to them, and step aside from them so you can hear what they say discuss regarding it”.

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Other translations of verse 28

Take this letter of mine and deliver it to them, then withdraw and see how they respond.”

"Go you with this letter of mine, and deliver it to them, then draw back from them, and see what (answer) they return."

Go with this my letter and throw it down unto them; then turn away and see what (answer) they return,

"Go thou, with this letter of mine, and deliver it to them: then draw back from them, and (wait to) see what answer they return"...

Take this my letter and hand it over to them, then turn away from them and see what (answer) they return.

Go with this book (i.e., letter) of mine, then cast it to them; thereafter turn away from them, (and) so look what (answer) they return."

Verse 28 word by word

  1. ٱذْهَب idh'hab Go ذ ه ب
  2. بِّكِتَٰبِى bikitābī with my letter ك ت ب
  3. هَٰذَا hādhā this
  4. فَأَلْقِهْ fa-alqih and deliver it ل ق ي
  5. إِلَيْهِمْ ilayhim to them
  6. ثُمَّ thumma Then
  7. تَوَلَّ tawalla turn away و ل ي
  8. عَنْهُمْ ʿanhum from them
  9. فَٱنظُرْ fa-unẓur and see ن ظ ر
  10. مَاذَا mādhā what
  11. يَرْجِعُونَ yarjiʿūna they return ر ج ع

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