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Surah As-Saffat, Verse 71

سورة الصافات، الآية ٧١

37:71 Juz 23 Hizb 45 Page 448 of the mushaf Meccan surah

Text of verse 37:71

وَلَقَدْ ضَلَّ قَبْلَهُمْ أَكْثَرُ ٱلْأَوَّلِينَ ۝٧١

Transliteration

walaqad ḍalla qablahum aktharu l-awalīna

Translation

And there had already strayed before them most of the former peoples,

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Verse 71 of Surah As-Saffat (37:71), a Meccan surah, is in juz 23, on page 448 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 71

Al-Mukhtasar

Verily, the majority of people before them also went astray. So O Messenger, those to whom you have been sent are not the first to go astray.

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Other translations of verse 71

Indeed, most of the earlier people went astray before them,

And indeed most of the men of old went astray before them;

And verily most of the men of old went astray before them,

And truly before them, many of the ancients went astray;-

And certainly most of the ancients went astray before them,

And indeed before them already erred away most of the earliest (people),

Verse 71 word by word

وَلَقَدْ walaqad And verily
ضَلَّ ḍalla went astray ض ل ل
قَبْلَهُمْ qablahum before them ق ب ل
أَكْثَرُ aktharu most ك ث ر
ٱلْأَوَّلِينَ l-awalīna (of) the former (people) أ و ل

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