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Surah Ash-Shu’ara, Verse 176

سورة الشعراء، الآية ١٧٦

26:176 Juz 19 Hizb 38 Page 374 of the mushaf Meccan surah

Text of verse 26:176

كَذَّبَ أَصْحَٰبُ لْـَٔيْكَةِ ٱلْمُرْسَلِينَ ۝١٧٦

Transliteration

kadhaba aṣḥābu al'aykati l-mur'salīna

Translation

The companions of the thicket [i.e., the people of Madyan] denied the messengers

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Verse 176 of Surah Ash-Shu’ara (26:176), 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 176

Al-Mukhtasar

The people of the Thicket close to Madyan rejected the Messengers when they rejected their prophet Shu‘ayb (peace be upon him).

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Other translations of verse 176

The people of the Forest²² rejected the messengers.

Notes

[22] i.e., the people of Madyan, to whom Shu‘ayb was sent.

The dwellers of Al-Aikah [near Madyan (Midian)] belied the Messengers.

The dwellers in the wood (of Midian) denied the messengers (of Allah),

The Companions of the Wood rejected the messengers.

The dwellers of the thicket gave the lie to the messengers.

The companions (i.e., inhabitants) of the Thicket cried lies to the Emissaries,

Verse 176 word by word

كَذَّبَ kadhaba Denied ك ذ ب
أَصْحَٰبُ aṣḥābu (the) companions ص ح ب
لْـَٔيْكَةِ al'aykati (of the) Wood
ٱلْمُرْسَلِينَ l-mur'salīna the Messengers ر س ل

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Cited by Ibn Kathir in his explanation of this verse

Al-A’raf 7:82
وَمَا كَانَ جَوَابَ قَوْمِهِۦٓ إِلَّآ أَن قَالُوٓا۟ أَخْرِجُوهُم مِّن قَرْيَتِكُمْ إِنَّهُمْ أُنَاسٌ يَتَطَهَّرُونَ

But the answer of his people was only that they said, "Evict them from your city! Indeed, they are men who keep themselves pure."

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