Text of verse 26:157
فَعَقَرُوهَا فَأَصْبَحُوا۟ نَٰدِمِينَ ١٥٧
Transliteration
faʿaqarūhā fa-aṣbaḥū nādimīna
Translation
But they hamstrung her and so became regretful.
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Mahmoud Khalil Al-Hussary
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Surah Ash-Shu’ara, Verse 157
سورة الشعراء، الآية ١٥٧
Verse 157 of Surah Ash-Shu’ara (26:157), 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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Tafsir of verse 157
Al-Mukhtasar
So they agreed upon cutting its legs, and the most wretched from them all did the act. Then they regretted the deed they had committed because of realising that the punishment was about to befall them inevitably. However, regret after seeing the punishment is of no benefit.
Other translations of verse 157
But they hamstrung her, then they became regretful,
But they killed her, and then they became regretful.
But they hamstrung her, and then were penitent.
But they ham-strung her: then did they become full of regrets.
But they hamstrung her, then regretted;
Yet they hamstrung her, (and) so they became remorseful.