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Surah As-Saffat, Verse 36

سورة الصافات، الآية ٣٦

37:36 Juz 23 Hizb 45 Page 447 of the mushaf Meccan surah

Text of verse 37:36

وَيَقُولُونَ أَئِنَّا لَتَارِكُوٓا۟ ءَالِهَتِنَا لِشَاعِرٍ مَّجْنُونٍۭ ۝٣٦

Transliteration

wayaqūlūna a-innā latārikū ālihatinā lishāʿirin majnūnin

Translation

And were saying, "Are we to leave our gods for a mad poet?"

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Verse 36 of Surah As-Saffat (37:36), 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 36

Al-Mukhtasar

And they would say, justifying their disbelief: “Should we leave the worship of our idols because of the words of a mad poet?” intending through this statement of theirs: the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him).

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Other translations of verse 36

and said, “Are we going to abandon our gods for a mad poet⁷?”

Notes

[7] They mean the Prophet (ﷺ).

And (they) said: "Are we going to abandon our âlihah (gods) for the sake of a mad poet?"

And said: Shall we forsake our gods for a mad poet?

And say: "What! shall we give up our gods for the sake of a Poet possessed?"

And to say: What! shall we indeed give up our gods for the sake of a mad poet?

And they said, "Shall we surely be leaving indeed our gods for a mad poet?"

Verse 36 word by word

وَيَقُولُونَ wayaqūlūna And they say ق و ل
أَئِنَّا a-innā Are we
لَتَارِكُوٓا۟ latārikū to leave ت ر ك
ءَالِهَتِنَا ālihatinā our gods أ ل ه
لِشَاعِرٍ lishāʿirin for a poet ش ع ر
مَّجْنُونٍۭ majnūnin mad ج ن ن

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