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Surah Ash-Shu’ara, Verse 116

سورة الشعراء، الآية ١١٦

26:116 Juz 19 Hizb 38 Page 372 of the mushaf Meccan surah

Text of verse 26:116

قَالُوا۟ لَئِن لَّمْ تَنتَهِ يَٰنُوحُ لَتَكُونَنَّ مِنَ ٱلْمَرْجُومِينَ ۝١١٦

Transliteration

qālū la-in lam tantahi yānūḥu latakūnanna mina l-marjūmīna

Translation

They said, "If you do not desist, O Noah, you will surely be of those who are stoned."

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Verse 116 of Surah Ash-Shu’ara (26:116), a Meccan surah, is in juz 19, on page 372 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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Tafsir of verse 116

Al-Mukhtasar

His people said to him, “If you do not stop calling towards what you’re calling us towards, you will definitely be harrassed and stoned to death.”

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Other translations of verse 116

They said, “O Noah, if you do not desist, you will certainly be stoned.”

They said: "If you cease not, O Nûh (Noah) you will surely be among those stoned (to death)."

They said: If thou cease not, O Noah, thou wilt surely be among those stoned (to death).

They said: "If thou desist not, O Noah! thou shalt be stoned (to death)."

They said: If you desist not, O Nuh, you shall most certainly be of those stoned to death.

They said, "Indeed, decidedly in case you do not refrain, O Nuh, (Noah) indeed you will definitely be one of the stoned."

Verse 116 word by word

  1. قَالُوا۟ qālū They said ق و ل
  2. لَئِن la-in If
  3. لَّمْ lam not
  4. تَنتَهِ tantahi you desist ن ه ي
  5. يَٰنُوحُ yānūḥu O Nuh
  6. لَتَكُونَنَّ latakūnanna Surely you will be ك و ن
  7. مِنَ mina of
  8. ٱلْمَرْجُومِينَ l-marjūmīna those who are stoned ر ج م

Verses related to verse 116

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  • Al-Qamar 54:10–14

    فَدَعَا رَبَّهُۥٓ أَنِّى مَغْلُوبٌ فَٱنتَصِرْ …

    So he invoked his Lord, "Indeed, I am overpowered, so help." …

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  • Ash-Shu’ara 26:167

    قَالُوا۟ لَئِن لَّمْ تَنتَهِ يَٰلُوطُ لَتَكُونَنَّ مِنَ ٱلْمُخْرَجِينَ

    They said, "If you do not desist, O Lot, you will surely be of those evicted."

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