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Surah As-Saffat, Verse 28

سورة الصافات، الآية ٢٨

37:28 Juz 23 Hizb 45 Page 447 of the mushaf Meccan surah

Text of verse 37:28

قَالُوٓا۟ إِنَّكُمْ كُنتُمْ تَأْتُونَنَا عَنِ ٱلْيَمِينِ ۝٢٨

Transliteration

qālū innakum kuntum tatūnanā ʿani l-yamīni

Translation

They will say, "Indeed, you used to come at us from the right."1290

Notes

[1290] i.e., from our position of strength, oppressing us. Or from where we would have grasped the truth, preventing us.

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Verse 28 of Surah As-Saffat (37:28), a Meccan surah, is in juz 23, on page 447 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

The followers will say to the leaders, “O our seniors! You use to approach us in matters of religion and truth, and would beautify for us disbelief, ascribing partners with Allah and sins, while scaring us away from the truth that the messengers brought from Allah.”

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Other translations of verse 28

[The followers] will say, “It was you who used to delude us from the right way6.”

Notes

[6] Or you used to pressure us, or deceived us with false oaths, or claimed to have the truth.

They will say: "It was you who used to come to us from the right side [i.e. from the right side of one of us and beautify for us every evil, enjoin on us polytheism, and stop us from the truth i.e. Islâmic Monotheism and from every good deed]."

They say: Lo! ye used to come unto us, imposing, (swearing that ye spoke the truth).

They will say: "It was ye who used to come to us from the right hand (of power and authority)!"

They shall say: Surely you used to come to us from the right side.

They (The seduced) say, "Surely you used to come up to us from the right hand." (i.e. with the Truth).

Verse 28 word by word

  1. قَالُوٓا۟ qālū They will say ق و ل
  2. إِنَّكُمْ innakum Indeed, you
  3. كُنتُمْ kuntum [you] used (to) ك و ن
  4. تَأْتُونَنَا tatūnanā come (to) us أ ت ي
  5. عَنِ ʿani from
  6. ٱلْيَمِينِ l-yamīni the right ي م ن

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