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Surah An-Naml, Verse 7

سورة النمل، الآية ٧

27:7 Juz 19 Hizb 38 Page 377 of the mushaf Meccan surah

Text of verse 27:7

إِذْ قَالَ مُوسَىٰ لِأَهْلِهِۦٓ إِنِّىٓ ءَانَسْتُ نَارًا سَـَٔاتِيكُم مِّنْهَا بِخَبَرٍ أَوْ ءَاتِيكُم بِشِهَابٍ قَبَسٍ لَّعَلَّكُمْ تَصْطَلُونَ ۝٧

Transliteration

idh qāla mūsā li-ahlihi innī ānastu nāran saātīkum min'hā bikhabarin aw ātīkum bishihābin qabasin laʿallakum taṣṭalūna

Translation

[Mention] when Moses said to his family, "Indeed, I have perceived a fire. I will bring you from there information or will bring you a burning torch that you may warm yourselves."

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Verse 7 of Surah An-Naml (27:7), 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.

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Tafsir of verse 7

Al-Mukhtasar

Remember, O Messenger, when Moses said to his family: “I have seen a fire. I shall bring some news from it, from the person who lit it to guide us towards the path, or I shall I bring you a flame of fire taken from it, in the hope that you will light a fire from it to warm yourselves from the cold”.

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Other translations of verse 7

[Remember] when Moses said to his family, “I have spotted a fire. I will bring you some news2 from there, or bring you a burning brand so that you may warm yourselves.”

Notes

[2] For they lost their way in the dark while traveling from Midian to Egypt.

(Remember) when Mûsâ (Moses) said to his household: "Verily I have seen a fire; I will bring you from there some information, or I will bring you a burning brand, that you may warm yourselves."

(Remember) when Moses said unto his household: Lo! I spy afar off a fire; I will bring you tidings thence, or bring to you a borrowed flame that ye may warm yourselves.

Behold! Moses said to his family: "I perceive a fire; soon will I bring you from there some information, or I will bring you a burning brand to light our fuel, that ye may warm yourselves.

When Musa said to his family: Surely I see fire; I will bring to you from it some news, or I will bring to you therefrom a burning firebrand so that you may warm yourselves.

As Musa (Moses) said to his family, "Surely I perceive a fire. Soon I will come up to you with news of it, or come up to you with a flaming brand that possibly you would warm yourselves."

Verse 7 word by word

  1. إِذْ idh When
  2. قَالَ qāla said ق و ل
  3. مُوسَىٰ mūsā Musa
  4. لِأَهْلِهِۦٓ li-ahlihi to his family أ ه ل
  5. إِنِّىٓ innī Indeed, I
  6. ءَانَسْتُ ānastu perceive أ ن س
  7. نَارًا nāran a fire ن و ر
  8. سَـَٔاتِيكُم saātīkum I will bring you أ ت ي
  9. مِّنْهَا min'hā from it
  10. بِخَبَرٍ bikhabarin some information خ ب ر
  11. أَوْ aw or
  12. ءَاتِيكُم ātīkum I will bring you أ ت ي
  13. بِشِهَابٍ bishihābin a torch ش ه ب
  14. قَبَسٍ qabasin burning ق ب س
  15. لَّعَلَّكُمْ laʿallakum so that you may
  16. تَصْطَلُونَ taṣṭalūna warm yourselves ص ل ي

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