Text of verse 26:203
فَيَقُولُوا۟ هَلْ نَحْنُ مُنظَرُونَ ٢٠٣
Transliteration
fayaqūlū hal naḥnu munẓarūna
Translation
And they will say, "May we be reprieved?"
Translation in another language
Mahmoud Khalil Al-Hussary
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Surah Ash-Shu’ara, Verse 203
سورة الشعراء، الآية ٢٠٣
Verse 203 of Surah Ash-Shu’ara (26:203), 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 203
Al-Mukhtasar
So when the punishment will come upon them suddenly, they will say out of immense grief, “Will we be given respite to repent to Allah?”
Other translations of verse 203
They will then say, “Can we be granted some respite?”
Then they will say: "Can we be respited?"
Then they will say: Are we to be reprieved?
Then they will say: "Shall we be respited?"
Then they will say: Shall we be respited?
Then they will say, "will we be respited?"
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And, [O Muḥammad], warn the people of a Day when the punishment will come to them and those who did wrong will say, "Our Lord, delay us for a short term; we will answer Your call and follow the messengers." [But it will be said], "Had you not sworn, before, that for you there would be no cessation?
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And when they saw Our punishment, they said, "We believe in Allāh alone and disbelieve in that which we used to associate with Him." …