سورة الشعراء، الآية ٦١
فَلَمَّا تَرَٰٓءَا ٱلْجَمْعَانِ قَالَ أَصْحَٰبُ مُوسَىٰٓ إِنَّا لَمُدْرَكُونَ ٦١
falammā tarāā l-jamʿāni qāla aṣḥābu mūsā innā lamud'rakūna
And when the two companies saw one another, the companions of Moses said, "Indeed, we are to be overtaken!"
Verse 61 of Surah Ash-Shu’ara (26:61), a Meccan surah, is in juz 19, on page 370 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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So when the two groups came into view of each other, Moses’s people said, “we are definitely going to be captured!” When Pharaoh and his people drew closer to Moses and his people, such that each person was in view of the other on the opposite side, Moses’s people said, “Indeed, Pharaoh and his people will catch up with us and we are powerless against them.”
When the two groups saw each other, the companions of Moses said, “We are surely overtaken!”
And when the two hosts saw each other, the companions of Mûsâ (Moses) said: "We are sure to be overtaken."
And when the two hosts saw each other, those with Moses said: Lo! we are indeed caught.
And when the two bodies saw each other, the people of Moses said: "We are sure to be overtaken."
So when the two hosts saw each other, the companions of Musa cried out: Most surely we are being overtaken.
Then, as soon as the two gatherings sighted each other, the companions of Musa (Moses) said, "Surely we are indeed overtaken!"
وَلَقَدْ أَوْحَيْنَآ إِلَىٰ مُوسَىٰٓ أَنْ أَسْرِ بِعِبَادِى فَٱضْرِبْ لَهُمْ طَرِيقًا فِى ٱلْبَحْرِ يَبَسًا لَّا تَخَٰفُ دَرَكًا وَلَا تَخْشَىٰ
And We had inspired to Moses, "Travel by night with My servants and strike for them a dry path through the sea; you will not fear being overtaken [by Pharaoh] nor be afraid [of drowning]."
