سورة الشعراء، الآية ١١١
قَالُوٓا۟ أَنُؤْمِنُ لَكَ وَٱتَّبَعَكَ ٱلْأَرْذَلُونَ ١١١
qālū anu'minu laka wa-ittabaʿaka l-ardhalūna
They said, "Should we believe you while you are followed by the lowest [class of people]?"
Verse 111 of Surah Ash-Shu’ara (26:111), a Meccan surah, is in juz 19, on page 371 of the mushaf. Read it in Arabic with its transliteration, translations and tafsir, and listen to it recited by 74 reciters.
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His people said to him, “O Noah! Should we believe you and follow what you have brought and act upon it, whilst your followers are the lowliest of people; there are no leaders and noblemen among them?”
They said, “Shall we believe in you when you are followed by the lowest people16?”
[16] For they were mostly the poor and ordinary people, who enjoyed no position in society.
They said: "Shall we believe in you, when the meanest (of the people) follow you?"
They said: Shall we put faith in thee, when the lowest (of the people) follow thee?
They said: "Shall we believe in thee when it is the meanest that follow thee?"
They said: Shall we believe in you while the meanest follow you?
They said, "should we believe you, and the most decrepit closely follow you?"
