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Surah Ash-Shu’ara, Verse 166

سورة الشعراء، الآية ١٦٦

26:166 Juz 19 Hizb 38 Page 374 of the mushaf Meccan surah

Text of verse 26:166

وَتَذَرُونَ مَا خَلَقَ لَكُمْ رَبُّكُم مِّنْ أَزْوَٰجِكُم بَلْ أَنتُمْ قَوْمٌ عَادُونَ ۝١٦٦

Transliteration

watadharūna mā khalaqa lakum rabbukum min azwājikum bal antum qawmun ʿādūna

Translation

And leave what your Lord has created for you as mates? But you are a people transgressing."

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Verse 166 of Surah Ash-Shu’ara (26:166), a Meccan surah, is in juz 19, on page 374 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 166

Al-Mukhtasar

“Whilst neglecting sexual gratification from the front passages of your wives Allah has created for you? You have indeed transgressed the limits of Allah by this detestable absurdity.”

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Other translations of verse 166

leaving the wives whom your Lord has created for you? You are but a transgressing people.”

"And leave those whom Allâh has created for you to be your wives? Nay, you are a trespassing people!"

And leave the wives your Lord created for you? Nay, but ye are froward folk.

"And leave those whom Allah has created for you to be your mates? Nay, ye are a people transgressing (all limits)!"

And leave what your Lord has created for you of your wives? Nay, you are a people exceeding limits.

And leave behind what your Lord created for you as spouses? No indeed, (but) you are an aggressive people."

Verse 166 word by word

  1. وَتَذَرُونَ watadharūna And you leave و ذ ر
  2. مَا mā what
  3. خَلَقَ khalaqa created خ ل ق
  4. لَكُمْ lakum for you
  5. رَبُّكُم rabbukum your Lord ر ب ب
  6. مِّنْ min of
  7. أَزْوَٰجِكُم azwājikum your mates ز و ج
  8. بَلْ bal Nay
  9. أَنتُمْ antum you
  10. قَوْمٌ qawmun (are) a people ق و م
  11. عَادُونَ ʿādūna transgressing ع د و

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