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Surah Ash-Shu’ara, Verse 224

سورة الشعراء، الآية ٢٢٤

26:224 Juz 19 Hizb 38 Page 376 of the mushaf Meccan surah

Text of verse 26:224

وَٱلشُّعَرَآءُ يَتَّبِعُهُمُ ٱلْغَاوُۥنَ ۝٢٢٤

Transliteration

wal-shuʿarāu yattabiʿuhumu l-ghāwūna

Translation

And the poets - [only] the deviators follow them.

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Verse 224 of Surah Ash-Shu’ara (26:224), a Meccan surah, is in juz 19, on page 376 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 224

Al-Mukhtasar

And as for the poets that you claim Muhammad (peace be upon him) is from, those deviant from the path of guidance and steadfastness follow them and relate whatever poetry they say.

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Other translations of verse 224

As for poets, they are followed by the deviants.

As for the poets, the erring ones follow them,

As for poets, the erring follow them.

And the Poets,- It is those straying in Evil, who follow them:

And as to the poets, those who go astray follow them.

And the poets, the misguided closely follow them;

Verse 224 word by word

  1. وَٱلشُّعَرَآءُ wal-shuʿarāu And the poets ش ع ر
  2. يَتَّبِعُهُمُ yattabiʿuhumu follow them ت ب ع
  3. ٱلْغَاوُۥنَ l-ghāwūna the deviators غ و ي

Hadiths that cite this verse

Good chain (hasan) Sunan Abu Dawud 5016

The verse “And the poets it is those straying in evil who follow them. He (Allah) then abrogated it and made an exception saying: Except those who believe and work righteousness, engage much in the remembrance of Allah."

فَنَسَخَ مِنْ ذَلِكَ وَاسْتَثْنَى فَقَالَ ‏‏{‏ إِلاَّ الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا وَعَمِلُوا الصَّالِحَاتِ وَذَكَرُوا اللَّهَ كَثِيرًا ‏}‏ ‏.‏

Narrated by Ibn ‘Abbās

Not graded Al-Adab al-Mufrad 871

In respect of "And as for the poets, is the misled who follow them. Do you not see how they ramble on in every style and that they say things which they do not do?" (26:223-225), Ibn 'Abbas said that it was abrogated and that an exception was made in His words, "except for those who believe and do…

حَدَّثَنَا إِسْحَاقُ، قَالَ‏:‏ أَخْبَرَنَا عَلِيُّ بْنُ الْحُسَيْنِ قَالَ‏:‏ حَدَّثَنِي أَبِي، عَنْ يَزِيدَ النَّحْوِيِّ، عَنْ عِكْرِمَةَ، عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ‏:‏ ‏{‏وَالشُّعَرَاءُ يَتَّبِعُهُمُ الْغَاوُونَ‏}‏ إِلَى…

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