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Surah Ash-Shu’ara, Verse 18

سورة الشعراء، الآية ١٨

26:18 Juz 19 Hizb 37 Page 367 of the mushaf Meccan surah

Text of verse 26:18

قَالَ أَلَمْ نُرَبِّكَ فِينَا وَلِيدًا وَلَبِثْتَ فِينَا مِنْ عُمُرِكَ سِنِينَ ۝١٨

Transliteration

qāla alam nurabbika fīnā walīdan walabith'ta fīnā min ʿumurika sinīna

Translation

[Pharaoh] said, "Did we not raise you among us as a child, and you remained among us for years of your life?

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Verse 18 of Surah Ash-Shu’ara (26:18), a Meccan surah, is in juz 19, on page 367 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 18

Al-Mukhtasar

Pharaoh said to Moses (peace be upon him): Did we not bring you up as a child among us? Did you not stay with us for many years of your life? So what has now made you claim prophethood?

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Other translations of verse 18

Pharaoh said, “Did we not bring you up as a child among us, and you stayed with us several years of your life?

[Fir‘aun (Pharaoh)] said [to Mûsâ (Moses)]: "Did we not bring you up among us as a child? And you did dwell many years of your life with us.

(Pharaoh) said (unto Moses): Did we not rear thee among us as a child? And thou didst dwell many years of thy life among us,

(Pharaoh) said: "Did we not cherish thee as a child among us, and didst thou not stay in our midst many years of thy life?

(Firon) said: Did we not bring you up as a child among us, and you tarried among us for (many) years of your life?

Said he, "Did we not rear you among us as a newborn, and did you not linger among us years of your age?

Verse 18 word by word

  1. قَالَ qāla He said ق و ل
  2. أَلَمْ alam Did not
  3. نُرَبِّكَ nurabbika we bring you up ر ب و
  4. فِينَا fīnā among us
  5. وَلِيدًا walīdan (as) a child و ل د
  6. وَلَبِثْتَ walabith'ta and you remained ل ب ث
  7. فِينَا fīnā among us
  8. مِنْ min of
  9. عُمُرِكَ ʿumurika your life ع م ر
  10. سِنِينَ sinīna years س ن و

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