سورة الشعراء، الآية ١٤٩
وَتَنْحِتُونَ مِنَ ٱلْجِبَالِ بُيُوتًا فَٰرِهِينَ ١٤٩
watanḥitūna mina l-jibāli buyūtan fārihīna
And you carve out of the mountains, homes, with skill.
Verse 149 of Surah Ash-Shu’ara (26:149), a Meccan surah, is in juz 19, on page 373 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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“And you skilfully carve out houses from the mountains, in which you then live.”
carving out houses in the mountains with great skill?
"And you hew out in the mountains, houses with great skill.
Though ye hew out dwellings in the mountain, being skilful?
"And ye carve houses out of (rocky) mountains with great skill.
And you hew houses out of the mountains exultingly;
And you (skillfully) hew houses out of the mountains?
They share a sequence of words with this verse: useful for telling them apart when memorising.
وَكَانُوا۟ يَنْحِتُونَ مِنَ ٱلْجِبَالِ بُيُوتًا ءَامِنِينَ
And they used to carve from the mountains, houses, feeling secure.
وَأَوْحَىٰ رَبُّكَ إِلَى ٱلنَّحْلِ أَنِ ٱتَّخِذِى مِنَ ٱلْجِبَالِ بُيُوتًا وَمِنَ ٱلشَّجَرِ وَمِمَّا يَعْرِشُونَ
And your Lord inspired to the bee, "Take for yourself among the mountains, houses [i.e., hives], and among the trees and [in] that which they construct.
