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Surah Ash-Shu’ara, Verse 74

سورة الشعراء، الآية ٧٤

26:74 Juz 19 Hizb 37 Page 370 of the mushaf Meccan surah

Text of verse 26:74

قَالُوا۟ بَلْ وَجَدْنَآ ءَابَآءَنَا كَذَٰلِكَ يَفْعَلُونَ ۝٧٤

Transliteration

qālū bal wajadnā ābāanā kadhālika yafʿalūna

Translation

They said, "But we found our fathers doing thus."

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Verse 74 of Surah Ash-Shu’ara (26:74), 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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Tafsir of verse 74

Al-Mukhtasar

They said, They do not hear us when we supplicate to them, nor do they benefit us when we feed them, nor harm us if we disobey them. However, the reality is that we found our forefathers doing that, so we follow them.

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Other translations of verse 74

They said, “No, but this is what we found our forefathers doing.”

They said: "(Nay) but we found our fathers doing so."

They said: Nay, but we found our fathers acting on this wise.

They said: "Nay, but we found our fathers doing thus (what we do)."

They said: Nay, we found our fathers doing so.

They said, "No indeed, (but) we found our fathers thus performing."

Verse 74 word by word

  1. قَالُوا۟ qālū They said ق و ل
  2. بَلْ bal Nay
  3. وَجَدْنَآ wajadnā but we found و ج د
  4. ءَابَآءَنَا ābāanā our forefathers أ ب و
  5. كَذَٰلِكَ kadhālika like that
  6. يَفْعَلُونَ yafʿalūna doing ف ع ل

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