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Surah At-Tawbah, Verse 78

سورة التوبة، الآية ٧٨

9:78 Juz 10 Hizb 20 Page 199 of the mushaf Medinan surah

Text of verse 9:78

أَلَمْ يَعْلَمُوٓا۟ أَنَّ ٱللَّهَ يَعْلَمُ سِرَّهُمْ وَنَجْوَىٰهُمْ وَأَنَّ ٱللَّهَ عَلَّٰمُ ٱلْغُيُوبِ ۝٧٨

Transliteration

alam yaʿlamū anna l-laha yaʿlamu sirrahum wanajwāhum wa-anna l-laha ʿallāmu l-ghuyūbi

Translation

Did they not know that Allāh knows their secrets and their private conversations and that Allāh is the Knower of the unseen?

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Verse 78 of Surah At-Tawbah (9:78), a Medinan surah, is in juz 10, on page 199 of the mushaf. Read it in Arabic with its transliteration, translations and tafsir, and listen to it recited by 72 reciters.

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Tafsir of verse 78

Al-Mukhtasar

Do the hypocrites not know that Allah knows the plots they keep secret in their meetings and that Allah, may He be glorified, is the Knower of all Ghaib things? No action of theirs is hidden from Him and He will repay them for that.

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Other translations of verse 78

Do they not know that Allah knows their secret and private conversations and that Allah is the All-Knower of all unseen?

Know they not that Allâh knows their secret ideas, and their Najwa 17 (secret counsels), and that Allâh is the All-Knower of things unseen.

Notes

[17] (V.9:78) See F.N. of (V.11:18).

Know they not that Allah knoweth both their secret and the thought that they confide, and that Allah is the Knower of Things Hidden?

Know they not that Allah doth know their secret (thoughts) and their secret counsels, and that Allah knoweth well all things unseen?

Do they not know that Allah knows their hidden thoughts and their secret counsels, and that Allah is the great Knower of the unseen things?

Do they not know that Allah knows their secret and their private conference and that Allah is The Sublime Knower of the things Unseen.?

Verse 78 word by word

  1. أَلَمْ alam Do not
  2. يَعْلَمُوٓا۟ yaʿlamū they know ع ل م
  3. أَنَّ anna that
  4. ٱللَّهَ l-laha Allah
  5. يَعْلَمُ yaʿlamu knows ع ل م
  6. سِرَّهُمْ sirrahum their secret س ر ر
  7. وَنَجْوَىٰهُمْ wanajwāhum and their secret conversation ن ج و
  8. وَأَنَّ wa-anna and that
  9. ٱللَّهَ l-laha Allah
  10. عَلَّٰمُ ʿallāmu (is) All-Knower ع ل م
  11. ٱلْغُيُوبِ l-ghuyūbi (of) the unseen غ ي ب

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  • At-Tawbah 9:104

    أَلَمْ يَعْلَمُوٓا۟ أَنَّ ٱللَّهَ هُوَ يَقْبَلُ ٱلتَّوْبَةَ عَنْ عِبَادِهِۦ وَيَأْخُذُ ٱلصَّدَقَٰتِ وَأَنَّ ٱللَّهَ هُوَ ٱلتَّوَّابُ ٱلرَّحِيمُ

    Do they not know that it is Allāh who accepts repentance from His servants and receives charities and that it is Allāh who is the Accepting of Repentance, the Merciful?

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