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Surah Fussilat, Verse 26

سورة فصلت، الآية ٢٦

41:26 Juz 24 Hizb 48 Page 479 of the mushaf Meccan surah

Text of verse 41:26

وَقَالَ ٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا۟ لَا تَسْمَعُوا۟ لِهَٰذَا ٱلْقُرْءَانِ وَٱلْغَوْا۟ فِيهِ لَعَلَّكُمْ تَغْلِبُونَ ۝٢٦

Transliteration

waqāla alladhīna kafarū lā tasmaʿū lihādhā l-qur'āni wal-ghaw fīhi laʿallakum taghlibūna

Translation

And those who disbelieve say, "Do not listen to this Qur’ān and speak noisily1391 during [the recitation of] it that perhaps you will overcome."

Notes

[1391] Other meanings include "speak improperly" and/or "make a clamor." The purpose of this was to prevent the hearing or understanding of the Qur’ān.

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Verse 26 of Surah Fussilat (41:26), a Meccan surah, is in juz 24, on page 479 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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When they became helpless in countering evidence with evidence, the disbelievers said, urging one another, “Do not listen to this Qur’ān that Muhammad recites to you and do not submit to it, rather, shout and raise your voices when he recites it to you so that perhaps you can gain the upper hand over him and he stops reciting and calling towards it, then we will be relieved of him.”

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Other translations of verse 26

Those who disbelieve say, “Do not listen to this Qur’an, but make noise [when it is recited], so that you may prevail.”

And those who disbelieve say: "Listen not to this Qur’ân, and make noise in the midst of its (recitation) that you may overcome."

Those who disbelieve say: Heed not this Qur'an, and drown the hearing of it; haply ye may conquer.

The Unbelievers say: "Listen not to this Qur'an, but talk at random in the midst of its (reading), that ye may gain the upper hand!"

And those who disbelieve say: Do not listen to this Quran and make noise therein, perhaps you may overcome.

And the ones who have disbelieved say, "Do not give ear to this Qur'an, and talk idly about it, that possibly you would overcome."

Verse 26 word by word

  1. وَقَالَ waqāla And said ق و ل
  2. ٱلَّذِينَ alladhīna those who
  3. كَفَرُوا۟ kafarū disbelieve ك ف ر
  4. لَا lā (Do) not
  5. تَسْمَعُوا۟ tasmaʿū listen س م ع
  6. لِهَٰذَا lihādhā to this
  7. ٱلْقُرْءَانِ l-qur'āni Quran ق ر أ
  8. وَٱلْغَوْا۟ wal-ghaw and make noise ل غ و
  9. فِيهِ fīhi therein
  10. لَعَلَّكُمْ laʿallakum so that you may
  11. تَغْلِبُونَ taghlibūna overcome غ ل ب

Verses related to verse 26

Cited by Ibn Kathir in his explanation of this verse

  • Al-A’raf 7:204

    وَإِذَا قُرِئَ ٱلْقُرْءَانُ فَٱسْتَمِعُوا۟ لَهُۥ وَأَنصِتُوا۟ لَعَلَّكُمْ تُرْحَمُونَ

    So when the Qur’ān is recited, then listen to it and pay attention that you may receive mercy.

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  • Saba 34:3

    وَقَالَ ٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا۟ لَا تَأْتِينَا ٱلسَّاعَةُ قُلْ بَلَىٰ وَرَبِّى لَتَأْتِيَنَّكُمْ عَٰلِمِ ٱلْغَيْبِ لَا يَعْزُبُ عَنْهُ مِثْقَالُ ذَرَّةٍ فِى ٱلسَّمَٰوَٰتِ وَلَا فِى ٱلْأَرْضِ وَلَآ أَصْغَرُ مِن ذَٰلِكَ وَلَآ أَكْبَرُ إِلَّا فِى كِتَٰبٍ مُّبِينٍ

    But those who disbelieve say, "The Hour will not come to us." Say, "Yes, by my Lord, it will surely come to you. [Allāh is] the Knower of the unseen." Not absent from Him is an atom's weight within the heavens or within the earth or [what is] smaller than that or greater, except that it is in a clear register -

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