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Surah Hud, Verse 71

سورة هود، الآية ٧١

11:71 Juz 12 Hizb 23 Page 229 of the mushaf Meccan surah

Text of verse 11:71

وَٱمْرَأَتُهُۥ قَآئِمَةٌ فَضَحِكَتْ فَبَشَّرْنَٰهَا بِإِسْحَٰقَ وَمِن وَرَآءِ إِسْحَٰقَ يَعْقُوبَ ۝٧١

Transliteration

wa-im'ra-atuhu qāimatun faḍaḥikat fabasharnāhā bi-is'ḥāqa wamin warāi is'ḥāqa yaʿqūba

Translation

And his wife was standing, and she smiled.564 Then We gave her good tidings of Isaac and after Isaac, Jacob.

Notes

[564] In pleasure at the news of the forthcoming punishment of the evil people who denied Prophet Lot (upon him be peace).

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Tafsir of verse 71

Al-Mukhtasar

Abraham’s wife, Sarah, was standing. Then they told her something that greatly pleased her, that she would bear Isaac, and that Isaac would have Jacob. She laughed and was delighted by what she heard.

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Other translations of verse 71

His wife38 was standing by and laughed after We gave her glad tidings of [the birth of] Isaac and Jacob after Isaac.

Notes

[38] Sarah who had no children of her own.

And his wife was standing (there), and she laughed [either, because the messengers did not eat their food or for being glad for the destruction of the people of Lût (Lot)]. But We gave her glad tidings of Ishâq (Isaac), and after Ishâq, of Ya‘qûb (Jacob).

And his wife, standing by laughed when We gave her good tidings (of the birth) of Isaac, and, after Isaac, of Jacob.

And his wife was standing (there), and she laughed: But we gave her glad tidings of Isaac, and after him, of Jacob.

And his wife was standing (by), so she laughed, then We gave her the good news of Ishaq and after Ishaq of (a son's son) Yaqoub.

And his wife was upright, so she laughed. Then We gave her the glad tidings of Ishaq, (Isaac) and even beyond Ishaq, of Yaaqub (Jacob).

Verse 71 word by word

  1. وَٱمْرَأَتُهُۥ wa-im'ra-atuhu And his wife م ر أ
  2. قَآئِمَةٌ qāimatun (was) standing ق و م
  3. فَضَحِكَتْ faḍaḥikat and she laughed ض ح ك
  4. فَبَشَّرْنَٰهَا fabasharnāhā Then We gave her glad tidings ب ش ر
  5. بِإِسْحَٰقَ bi-is'ḥāqa of Isaac
  6. وَمِن wamin and after
  7. وَرَآءِ warāi and after و ر ي
  8. إِسْحَٰقَ is'ḥāqa Isaac
  9. يَعْقُوبَ yaʿqūba (of) Yaqub

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Cited by Ibn Kathir in his explanation of this verse

  • Al-Baqarah 2:133

    أَمْ كُنتُمْ شُهَدَآءَ إِذْ حَضَرَ يَعْقُوبَ ٱلْمَوْتُ إِذْ قَالَ لِبَنِيهِ مَا تَعْبُدُونَ مِنۢ بَعْدِى قَالُوا۟ نَعْبُدُ إِلَٰهَكَ وَإِلَٰهَ ءَابَآئِكَ إِبْرَٰهِـۧمَ وَإِسْمَٰعِيلَ وَإِسْحَٰقَ إِلَٰهًا وَٰحِدًا وَنَحْنُ لَهُۥ مُسْلِمُونَ

    Or were you witnesses when death approached Jacob, when he said to his sons, "What will you worship after me?" They said, "We will worship your God and the God of your fathers, Abraham and Ishmael and Isaac - one God. And we are Muslims [in submission] to Him."

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