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Surah Ghafir, Verse 30

سورة غافر، الآية ٣٠

40:30 Juz 24 Hizb 47 Page 470 of the mushaf Meccan surah

Text of verse 40:30

وَقَالَ ٱلَّذِىٓ ءَامَنَ يَٰقَوْمِ إِنِّىٓ أَخَافُ عَلَيْكُم مِّثْلَ يَوْمِ ٱلْأَحْزَابِ ۝٣٠

Transliteration

waqāla alladhī āmana yāqawmi innī akhāfu ʿalaykum mith'la yawmi l-aḥzābi

Translation

And he who believed said, "O my people, indeed I fear for you [a fate] like the day of the companies1369 -

Notes

[1369] i.e., the days on which Allāh sent His punishment upon those who rejected their prophets in former times.

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Verse 30 of Surah Ghafir (40:30), a Meccan surah, is in juz 24, on page 470 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 30

Al-Mukhtasar

And the one who brought faith said, advising his people: “I fear for you, if you kill Moses unjustly and oppressively, a punishment like the punishment of the groups that united against their prophets previously, then Allah destroyed them.

Tafsir of the whole Surah Ghafir

Other translations of verse 30

The man who believed said, “O my people, I fear for you [a fate] like the day of the enemy forces7,

Notes

[7] i.e., the day of punishment upon those who rejected their prophets in the past.

And he who believed said: "O my people! Verily, I fear for you a fate like that day (of disaster) of the Confederates (of old)!

And he who believed said: O my people! Lo! I fear for you a fate like that of the factions (of old);

Then said the man who believed: "O my people! Truly I do fear for you something like the Day (of disaster) of the Confederates (in sin)!-

And he who believed said: O my people! surely I fear for you the like of what befell the parties:

And he who believed said, "O my people, surely I fear for you the like of the Day of the (allied) parties;

Verse 30 word by word

  1. وَقَالَ waqāla And said ق و ل
  2. ٱلَّذِىٓ alladhī (he) who
  3. ءَامَنَ āmana believed أ م ن
  4. يَٰقَوْمِ yāqawmi O my people ق و م
  5. إِنِّىٓ innī Indeed I
  6. أَخَافُ akhāfu [I] fear خ و ف
  7. عَلَيْكُم ʿalaykum for you
  8. مِّثْلَ mith'la like م ث ل
  9. يَوْمِ yawmi (the) day ي و م
  10. ٱلْأَحْزَابِ l-aḥzābi (of) the companies ح ز ب

Verses related to verse 30

Cited by Ibn Kathir in his explanation of this verse

  • Al-Isra 17:102

    قَالَ لَقَدْ عَلِمْتَ مَآ أَنزَلَ هَٰٓؤُلَآءِ إِلَّا رَبُّ ٱلسَّمَٰوَٰتِ وَٱلْأَرْضِ بَصَآئِرَ وَإِنِّى لَأَظُنُّكَ يَٰفِرْعَوْنُ مَثْبُورًا

    [Moses] said, "You have already known that none has sent down these [signs] except the Lord of the heavens and the earth as evidence, and indeed I think, O Pharaoh, that you are destroyed."

  • An-Naml 27:14

    وَجَحَدُوا۟ بِهَا وَٱسْتَيْقَنَتْهَآ أَنفُسُهُمْ ظُلْمًا وَعُلُوًّا فَٱنظُرْ كَيْفَ كَانَ عَٰقِبَةُ ٱلْمُفْسِدِينَ

    And they rejected them, while their [inner] selves were convinced thereof, out of injustice and haughtiness. So see how was the end of the corrupters.

  • Hud 11:97

    إِلَىٰ فِرْعَوْنَ وَمَلَإِي۟هِۦ فَٱتَّبَعُوٓا۟ أَمْرَ فِرْعَوْنَ وَمَآ أَمْرُ فِرْعَوْنَ بِرَشِيدٍ

    To Pharaoh and his establishment, but they followed the command of Pharaoh, and the command of Pharaoh was not [at all] discerning.

  • Taha 20:79

    وَأَضَلَّ فِرْعَوْنُ قَوْمَهُۥ وَمَا هَدَىٰ

    And Pharaoh led his people astray and did not guide [them].

Verses with similar wording

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  • Ghafir 40:38

    وَقَالَ ٱلَّذِىٓ ءَامَنَ يَٰقَوْمِ ٱتَّبِعُونِ أَهْدِكُمْ سَبِيلَ ٱلرَّشَادِ

    And he who believed said, "O my people, follow me; I will guide you to the way of right conduct.

  • Ghafir 40:32

    وَيَٰقَوْمِ إِنِّىٓ أَخَافُ عَلَيْكُمْ يَوْمَ ٱلتَّنَادِ

    And O my people, indeed I fear for you the Day of Calling -

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