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Surah An-Nur, Verse 51

سورة النور، الآية ٥١

24:51 Juz 18 Hizb 36 Page 356 of the mushaf Medinan surah

Text of verse 24:51

إِنَّمَا كَانَ قَوْلَ ٱلْمُؤْمِنِينَ إِذَا دُعُوٓا۟ إِلَى ٱللَّهِ وَرَسُولِهِۦ لِيَحْكُمَ بَيْنَهُمْ أَن يَقُولُوا۟ سَمِعْنَا وَأَطَعْنَا وَأُو۟لَٰٓئِكَ هُمُ ٱلْمُفْلِحُونَ ۝٥١

Transliteration

innamā kāna qawla l-mu'minīna idhā duʿū ilā l-lahi warasūlihi liyaḥkuma baynahum an yaqūlū samiʿ'nā wa-aṭaʿnā wa-ulāika humu l-muf'liḥūna

Translation

The only statement of the [true] believers when they are called to Allāh and His Messenger to judge between them is that they say, "We hear and we obey." And those are the successful.

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Verse 51 of Surah An-Nur (24:51), a Medinan surah, is in juz 18, on page 356 of the mushaf. Read it in Arabic with its transliteration, translations and tafsir, and listen to it recited by 72 reciters.

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Tafsir of verse 51

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When the believers are called towards Allah and His Messenger for him to judge between them, their only reaction is that they say, “We have heard his statement and obeyed his order”. Those who possess this characteristic are the ones who are successful in the world and the Hearafter.

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Other translations of verse 51

As for the believers, when they are called to Allah and His Messenger so that he may judge between them, they say, “We listen and obey.” It is they who are successful.

The only saying of the faithful believers, when they are called to Allâh (His Words, the Qur’ân) and His Messenger (صلى الله عليه وسلم), to judge between them, is that they say: "We hear and we obey." And such are the successful (who will live forever in Paradise).

The saying of (all true) believers when they appeal unto Allah and His messenger to judge between them is only that they say: We hear and we obey. And such are the successful.

The answer of the Believers, when summoned to Allah and His Messenger, in order that He may judge between them, is no other than this: they say, "We hear and we obey": it is such as these that will attain felicity.

The response of the believers, when they are invited to Allah and His Messenger that he may judge between them, is only to say: We hear and we obey; and these it is that are the successful.

Surely the saying of believers when they are called to Allah and His Messenger that he (The Messenger) may judge between them is only that they say, "We hear and we obey." And those are they (who are) the prosperers.

Verse 51 word by word

  1. إِنَّمَا innamā Only
  2. كَانَ kāna is ك و ن
  3. قَوْلَ qawla (the) statement ق و ل
  4. ٱلْمُؤْمِنِينَ l-mu'minīna (of) the believers أ م ن
  5. إِذَا idhā when
  6. دُعُوٓا۟ duʿū they are called د ع و
  7. إِلَى ilā to
  8. ٱللَّهِ l-lahi Allah
  9. وَرَسُولِهِۦ warasūlihi and His Messenger ر س ل
  10. لِيَحْكُمَ liyaḥkuma to judge ح ك م
  11. بَيْنَهُمْ baynahum between them ب ي ن
  12. أَن an (is) that
  13. يَقُولُوا۟ yaqūlū they say ق و ل
  14. سَمِعْنَا samiʿ'nā We hear س م ع
  15. وَأَطَعْنَا wa-aṭaʿnā and we obey ط و ع
  16. وَأُو۟لَٰٓئِكَ wa-ulāika And those
  17. هُمُ humu [they]
  18. ٱلْمُفْلِحُونَ l-muf'liḥūna (are) the successful ف ل ح

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  • An-Nur 24:48

    وَإِذَا دُعُوٓا۟ إِلَى ٱللَّهِ وَرَسُولِهِۦ لِيَحْكُمَ بَيْنَهُمْ إِذَا فَرِيقٌ مِّنْهُم مُّعْرِضُونَ

    And when they are called to [the words of] Allāh and His Messenger to judge between them, at once a party of them turns aside [in refusal].

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