سورة الزخرف، الآية ٧٦
وَمَا ظَلَمْنَٰهُمْ وَلَٰكِن كَانُوا۟ هُمُ ٱلظَّٰلِمِينَ ٧٦
wamā ẓalamnāhum walākin kānū humu l-ẓālimīna
And We did not wrong them, but it was they who were the wrongdoers.
Verse 76 of Surah Az-Zukhruf (43:76), a Meccan surah, is in juz 25, on page 495 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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I will not oppress them by entering them into the hellfire, rather they oppressed themselves by disbelieving.
We did not wrong them, but they themselves were the wrongdoers.
We wronged them not, but they were the Zâlimûn (polytheists, wrong-doers).
We wronged them not, but they it was who did the wrong.
Nowise shall We be unjust to them: but it is they who have been unjust themselves.
And We are not unjust to them, but they themselves were unjust.
And in no way did We do injustice to them, but it is they who were the unjust.
They share a sequence of words with this verse: useful for telling them apart when memorising.
وَعَلَى ٱلَّذِينَ هَادُوا۟ حَرَّمْنَا مَا قَصَصْنَا عَلَيْكَ مِن قَبْلُ وَمَا ظَلَمْنَٰهُمْ وَلَٰكِن كَانُوٓا۟ أَنفُسَهُمْ يَظْلِمُونَ
And to those who are Jews We have prohibited that which We related to you before. And We did not wrong them [thereby], but they were wronging themselves.
