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Surah Ash-Shu’ara, Verse 21

سورة الشعراء، الآية ٢١

26:21 Juz 19 Hizb 37 Page 368 of the mushaf Meccan surah

Text of verse 26:21

فَفَرَرْتُ مِنكُمْ لَمَّا خِفْتُكُمْ فَوَهَبَ لِى رَبِّى حُكْمًا وَجَعَلَنِى مِنَ ٱلْمُرْسَلِينَ ۝٢١

Transliteration

fafarartu minkum lammā khif'tukum fawahaba lī rabbī ḥuk'man wajaʿalanī mina l-mur'salīna

Translation

So I fled from you when I feared you. Then my Lord granted me judgement [i.e., wisdom and prophethood] and appointed me [as one] of the messengers.

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Verse 21 of Surah Ash-Shu’ara (26:21), a Meccan surah, is in juz 19, on page 368 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 21

Al-Mukhtasar

So I fled from you to Madyan after killing him when I feared that you will kill me. Then my Lord gave me knowledge and made me one of His Messengers that He sends to people.

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Other translations of verse 21

So I fled from you in fear. Then my Lord gave me wisdom and made me one of the messengers.

"So I fled from you when I feared you. But my Lord has granted me Hukm (i.e. religious knowledge, right judgement of the affairs and Prophethood), and made me one of the Messengers.

Then I fled from you when I feared you, and my Lord vouchsafed me a command and appointed me (of the number) of those sent (by Him).

"So I fled from you (all) when I feared you; but my Lord has (since) invested me with judgment (and wisdom) and appointed me as one of the messengers.

So I fled from you when I feared you, then my Lord granted me wisdom and made me of the messengers;

So I fled from you as soon as I feared you. Then my Lord bestowed upon me judgment and He made me one of the Emissaries.

Verse 21 word by word

  1. فَفَرَرْتُ fafarartu So I fled ف ر ر
  2. مِنكُمْ minkum from you
  3. لَمَّا lammā when
  4. خِفْتُكُمْ khif'tukum I feared you خ و ف
  5. فَوَهَبَ fawahaba But granted و ه ب
  6. لِى lī to me
  7. رَبِّى rabbī my Lord ر ب ب
  8. حُكْمًا ḥuk'man judgment ح ك م
  9. وَجَعَلَنِى wajaʿalanī and made me ج ع ل
  10. مِنَ mina of
  11. ٱلْمُرْسَلِينَ l-mur'salīna the Messengers ر س ل

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