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Surah Hud, Verse 79

سورة هود، الآية ٧٩

11:79 Juz 12 Hizb 23 Page 230 of the mushaf Meccan surah

Text of verse 11:79

قَالُوا۟ لَقَدْ عَلِمْتَ مَا لَنَا فِى بَنَاتِكَ مِنْ حَقٍّ وَإِنَّكَ لَتَعْلَمُ مَا نُرِيدُ ۝٧٩

Transliteration

qālū laqad ʿalim'ta mā lanā fī banātika min ḥaqqin wa-innaka lataʿlamu mā nurīdu

Translation

They said, "You have already known that we have not concerning your daughters [i.e., women] any claim [i.e., desire], and indeed, you know what we want."

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Verse 79 of Surah Hud (11:79), a Meccan surah, is in juz 12, on page 230 of the mushaf. Read it in Arabic with its transliteration, translations and tafsir, and listen to it recited by 73 reciters.

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Tafsir of verse 79

Al-Mukhtasar

His people said to him that he knew that they had no need of the women among his people, and no desire, and he knew very well what they wanted, as they only desired men.

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Other translations of verse 79

They said, “You already know that we have no need for your daughters, and you surely know what we want!”

They said: "Surely you know that we have neither any desire nor need of your daughters, and indeed you know well what we want!"

They said: Well thou knowest that we have no right to thy daughters, and well thou knowest what we want.

They said: "Well dost thou know we have no need of thy daughters: indeed thou knowest quite well what we want!"

They said: Certainly you know that we have no claim on your daughters, and most surely you know what we desire.

They said, "Indeed you already know (that) in no way do we have any truthful (claim) whatever to your daughters, and surely you know indeed what we would have."

Verse 79 word by word

  1. قَالُوا۟ qālū They said ق و ل
  2. لَقَدْ laqad Verily
  3. عَلِمْتَ ʿalim'ta you know ع ل م
  4. مَا mā (that) not
  5. لَنَا lanā we have
  6. فِى fī concerning
  7. بَنَاتِكَ banātika your daughters ب ن ي
  8. مِنْ min any
  9. حَقٍّ ḥaqqin right ح ق ق
  10. وَإِنَّكَ wa-innaka And indeed, you
  11. لَتَعْلَمُ lataʿlamu surely know ع ل م
  12. مَا mā what
  13. نُرِيدُ nurīdu we want ر و د

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