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Surah Ash-Shu’ara, Verse 36

سورة الشعراء، الآية ٣٦

26:36 Juz 19 Hizb 37 Page 368 of the mushaf Meccan surah

Text of verse 26:36

قَالُوٓا۟ أَرْجِهْ وَأَخَاهُ وَٱبْعَثْ فِى ٱلْمَدَآئِنِ حَٰشِرِينَ ۝٣٦

Transliteration

qālū arjih wa-akhāhu wa-ib'ʿath fī l-madāini ḥāshirīna

Translation

They said, "Postpone [the matter of] him and his brother and send among the cities gatherers

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Verse 36 of Surah Ash-Shu’ara (26:36), 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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36-37. They said to him: Delay him and his brother and do not rush to punish them. Send out to the cities of Egypt those who will gather the magicians, to bring every magician, well versed in magic.

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Other translations of verse 36

They said, “Let him and his brother wait and dispatch heralds to the cities

They said: "Put him off and his brother (for a while), and send callers to the cities;

They said: Put him off, (him) and his brother, and send into the cities summoners

They said: "Keep him and his brother in suspense (for a while), and dispatch to the Cities heralds to collect-

They said: Give him and his brother respite and send heralds into the cities

They said, "Put him off, (him) and his brother, and send forth into the cities musterers,

Verse 36 word by word

  1. قَالُوٓا۟ qālū They said ق و ل
  2. أَرْجِهْ arjih Postpone him ر ج و
  3. وَأَخَاهُ wa-akhāhu and his brother أ خ و
  4. وَٱبْعَثْ wa-ib'ʿath and send ب ع ث
  5. فِى fī in
  6. ٱلْمَدَآئِنِ l-madāini the cities م د ن
  7. حَٰشِرِينَ ḥāshirīna gatherers ح ش ر

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  • Ash-Shu’ara 26:53

    فَأَرْسَلَ فِرْعَوْنُ فِى ٱلْمَدَآئِنِ حَٰشِرِينَ

    Then Pharaoh sent among the cities gatherers

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