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Surah Ash-Shu’ara, Verse 187

سورة الشعراء، الآية ١٨٧

26:187 Juz 19 Hizb 38 Page 375 of the mushaf Meccan surah

Text of verse 26:187

فَأَسْقِطْ عَلَيْنَا كِسَفًا مِّنَ ٱلسَّمَآءِ إِن كُنتَ مِنَ ٱلصَّٰدِقِينَ ۝١٨٧

Transliteration

fa-asqiṭ ʿalaynā kisafan mina l-samāi in kunta mina l-ṣādiqīna

Translation

So cause to fall upon us fragments of the sky, if you should be of the truthful."

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Verse 187 of Surah Ash-Shu’ara (26:187), a Meccan surah, is in juz 19, on page 375 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 187

Al-Mukhtasar

“So if you are truthful in your claim, cause a piece of sky to fall upon us.”

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Other translations of verse 187

So cause pieces of the sky to fall upon us, if you are of the truthful.”

"So cause a piece of the heaven to fall on us, if you are of the truthful!"

Then make fragments of the heaven fall upon us, if thou art of the truthful.

"Now cause a piece of the sky to fall on us, if thou art truthful!"

Therefore cause a portion of the heaven to come down upon us, if you are one of the truthful.

So let fall down on us lumps from the heaven, in case you are of the sincere."

Verse 187 word by word

  1. فَأَسْقِطْ fa-asqiṭ Then cause to fall س ق ط
  2. عَلَيْنَا ʿalaynā upon us
  3. كِسَفًا kisafan fragments ك س ف
  4. مِّنَ mina of
  5. ٱلسَّمَآءِ l-samāi the sky س م و
  6. إِن in if
  7. كُنتَ kunta you are ك و ن
  8. مِنَ mina of
  9. ٱلصَّٰدِقِينَ l-ṣādiqīna the truthful ص د ق

Verses related to verse 187

Cited by Ibn Kathir in his explanation of this verse

  • Al-Isra 17:90–92

    وَقَالُوا۟ لَن نُّؤْمِنَ لَكَ حَتَّىٰ تَفْجُرَ لَنَا مِنَ ٱلْأَرْضِ يَنۢبُوعًا …

    And they say, "We will not believe you until you break open for us from the ground a spring …

  • Al-Anfal 8:32

    وَإِذْ قَالُوا۟ ٱللَّهُمَّ إِن كَانَ هَٰذَا هُوَ ٱلْحَقَّ مِنْ عِندِكَ فَأَمْطِرْ عَلَيْنَا حِجَارَةً مِّنَ ٱلسَّمَآءِ أَوِ ٱئْتِنَا بِعَذَابٍ أَلِيمٍ

    And [remember] when they said, "O Allāh, if this should be the truth from You, then rain down upon us stones from the sky or bring us a painful punishment."

Verses with similar wording

They share a sequence of words with this verse: useful for telling them apart when memorising.

  • Ash-Shu’ara 26:31

    قَالَ فَأْتِ بِهِۦٓ إِن كُنتَ مِنَ ٱلصَّٰدِقِينَ

    [Pharaoh] said, "Then bring it, if you should be of the truthful."

  • Al-Hijr 15:7

    لَّوْ مَا تَأْتِينَا بِٱلْمَلَٰٓئِكَةِ إِن كُنتَ مِنَ ٱلصَّٰدِقِينَ

    Why do you not bring us the angels, if you should be among the truthful?"

  • Al-A’raf 7:70

    قَالُوٓا۟ أَجِئْتَنَا لِنَعْبُدَ ٱللَّهَ وَحْدَهُۥ وَنَذَرَ مَا كَانَ يَعْبُدُ ءَابَآؤُنَا فَأْتِنَا بِمَا تَعِدُنَآ إِن كُنتَ مِنَ ٱلصَّٰدِقِينَ

    They said, "Have you come to us that we should worship Allāh alone and leave what our fathers have worshipped? Then bring us what you promise us, if you should be of the truthful."

  • Al-A’raf 7:106

    قَالَ إِن كُنتَ جِئْتَ بِـَٔايَةٍ فَأْتِ بِهَآ إِن كُنتَ مِنَ ٱلصَّٰدِقِينَ

    [Pharaoh] said, "If you have come with a sign, then bring it forth, if you should be of the truthful."

  • Hud 11:32

    قَالُوا۟ يَٰنُوحُ قَدْ جَٰدَلْتَنَا فَأَكْثَرْتَ جِدَٰلَنَا فَأْتِنَا بِمَا تَعِدُنَآ إِن كُنتَ مِنَ ٱلصَّٰدِقِينَ

    They said, "O Noah, you have disputed [i.e., opposed] us and been frequent in dispute of us. So bring us what you threaten us, if you should be of the truthful."

  • Ash-Shu’ara 26:154

    مَآ أَنتَ إِلَّا بَشَرٌ مِّثْلُنَا فَأْتِ بِـَٔايَةٍ إِن كُنتَ مِنَ ٱلصَّٰدِقِينَ

    You are but a man like ourselves, so bring a sign, if you should be of the truthful."

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