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Surah Ash-Shuraa, Verse 41

سورة الشورى، الآية ٤١

42:41 Juz 25 Hizb 49 Page 487 of the mushaf Meccan surah

Text of verse 42:41

وَلَمَنِ ٱنتَصَرَ بَعْدَ ظُلْمِهِۦ فَأُو۟لَٰٓئِكَ مَا عَلَيْهِم مِّن سَبِيلٍ ۝٤١

Transliteration

walamani intaṣara baʿda ẓul'mihi fa-ulāika mā ʿalayhim min sabīlin

Translation

And whoever retaliates after having been wronged - those have not upon them any cause [for blame].

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Verse 41 of Surah Ash-Shuraa (42:41), a Meccan surah, is in juz 25, on page 487 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 41

Al-Mukhtasar

For those who defend themselves, there will be no blame as they had taken their right.

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Other translations of verse 41

But whoever retaliates after being wronged, there is no blame on them.

And indeed whosoever takes revenge after he has suffered wrong, for such there is no way (of blame) against them.

And whoso defendeth himself after he hath suffered wrong - for such, there is no way (of blame) against them.

But indeed if any do help and defend themselves after a wrong (done) to them, against such there is no cause of blame.

And whoever defends himself after his being oppressed, these it is against whom there is no way (to blame).

And indeed whoever vindicates himself after an injustice (has been done to him) against those, then in no way is there any way (for blaming) them (i.e., there is no blame on those who vindicate themselves).

Verse 41 word by word

  1. وَلَمَنِ walamani And surely whosoever
  2. ٱنتَصَرَ intaṣara defends himself ن ص ر
  3. بَعْدَ baʿda after ب ع د
  4. ظُلْمِهِۦ ẓul'mihi he has been wronged ظ ل م
  5. فَأُو۟لَٰٓئِكَ fa-ulāika then those
  6. مَا mā not
  7. عَلَيْهِم ʿalayhim (is) against them
  8. مِّن min any
  9. سَبِيلٍ sabīlin way س ب ل

Hadiths that cite this verse

Weak Sunan Abu Dawud 4898

Ibn Awn said: I asked about the meaning of intisar (revenge) in the Qur'anic verse: "But indeed if any do help and defend themselves (intasara) after a wrong (done) to them, against them there is no cause of blame." Then Ali ibn Zayd ibn Jad'an told me on the authority of Umm Muhammad, the wife of…

دَخَلَ عَلَىَّ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم وَعِنْدَنَا زَيْنَبُ بِنْتُ جَحْشٍ فَجَعَلَ يَصْنَعُ شَيْئًا بِيَدِهِ فَقُلْتُ بِيَدِهِ حَتَّى فَطَنْتُهُ لَهَا فَأَمْسَكَ وَأَقْبَلَتْ زَيْنَبُ تَقْحَمُ لِعَائِشَةَ رضى…

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