سورة الشعراء، الآية ١١٧
قَالَ رَبِّ إِنَّ قَوْمِى كَذَّبُونِ ١١٧
qāla rabbi inna qawmī kadhabūni
He said, "My Lord, indeed my people have denied me.
Verse 117 of Surah Ash-Shu’ara (26:117), 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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Supplicating to his Lord, Noah said, “O my Lord! Indeed, my nation has rejected me and not believed in what I have brought from you to be true.”
He said, “My Lord, my people have rejected me.
He said: "My Lord! Verily, my people have belied me.
He said: My Lord! Lo! my own folk deny me.
He said: "O my Lord! truly my people have rejected me.
He said: My Lord! Surely my people give me the lie!
He said, "Lord! Surely my people have cried me lies,
فَدَعَا رَبَّهُۥٓ أَنِّى مَغْلُوبٌ فَٱنتَصِرْ …
So he invoked his Lord, "Indeed, I am overpowered, so help." …
They share a sequence of words with this verse: useful for telling them apart when memorising.
وَقَالَ ٱلرَّسُولُ يَٰرَبِّ إِنَّ قَوْمِى ٱتَّخَذُوا۟ هَٰذَا ٱلْقُرْءَانَ مَهْجُورًا
And the Messenger has said, "O my Lord, indeed my people have taken this Qur’ān as [a thing] abandoned."
