Text of verse 11:97
إِلَىٰ فِرْعَوْنَ وَمَلَإِي۟هِۦ فَٱتَّبَعُوٓا۟ أَمْرَ فِرْعَوْنَ وَمَآ أَمْرُ فِرْعَوْنَ بِرَشِيدٍ ٩٧
Transliteration
ilā fir'ʿawna wamala-ihi fa-ittabaʿū amra fir'ʿawna wamā amru fir'ʿawna birashīdin
Translation
To Pharaoh and his establishment, but they followed the command of Pharaoh, and the command of Pharaoh was not [at all] discerning.
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Rachid Maach Nabil Radwan (Noor International) Muhammad Hamidullah
Isa García Noor International (España) Noor International (Latinoamérica) Julio Cortés
Salomo Keyzer
Abubakar Mahmoud Gumi
محمد جوناگڑھی
Bubenheim & Elias
Ali Muhsin Al-Barwani
Hamza Roberto Piccardo
মুহিউদ্দীন খান
Rowwad Tercüme Merkezi Şaban Piriş Ali Özek ve arkadaşları Elmalılı Hamdi Yazır
Kementerian Agama RI
Mahmud Muhammad Abduh
حسین تاجی گلهداری
Abdullah Muhammad Basmeih
Sherif Ahmeti
Məmmədəliyev & Bünyadov
Besim Korkut
馬堅
Ivan Hrbek
Ahsen Böre
三田了一
최영길
Abdul Hameed & Parappoor
Abdulaziz Guroalim Saromantang
Einar Berg
Józef Bielawski
Samir El-Hayek
George Grigore
Эльмир Кулиев
Knut Bernström
ஜான் டிரஸ்ட்
Якуб ибн Нугман
สมาคมนักเรียนเก่าอาหรับ ประเทศไทย
Муҳаммад Содиқ Муҳаммад Юсуф
Verse 97 of Surah Hud (11:97), a Meccan surah, is in juz 12, on page 232 of the mushaf. Read it in Arabic with its transliteration, translations and tafsir, and listen to it recited by 73 reciters.
Tafsir of verse 97
Al-Mukhtasar
I sent Moses to Pharaoh and the nobles from his people. These nobles followed Pharaoh’s command to them to disbelieve in Allah. The command of Pharaoh was not one that was right to be followed.
Tafsir of the whole Surah Hud
Other translations of verse 97
to Pharaoh and his courtiers, but they followed the command of Pharaoh, even though the command of Pharaoh was misguided.
To Fir‘aun (Pharaoh) and his chiefs, but they followed the command of Fir‘aun (Pharaoh), and the command of Fir‘aun (Pharaoh) was no right guide.
Unto Pharaoh and his chiefs, but they did follow the command of Pharaoh, and the command of Pharaoh was no right guide.
Unto Pharaoh and his chiefs: but they followed the command of Pharaoh and the command of Pharaoh was no right (guide).
To Firon and his chiefs, but they followed the bidding of Firon, and Firon's bidding was not right-directing.
To Firaawn (pharaoh) and his chiefs. Yet they closely followed the command of Firaawn, and in no way was the command of Firaawn most- right-minded.
Verse 97 word by word
إِلَىٰ
ilā To
فِرْعَوْنَ
fir'ʿawna Firaun
وَمَلَإِي۟هِۦ
wamala-ihi and his chiefs م ل أ
فَٱتَّبَعُوٓا۟
fa-ittabaʿū but they followed ت ب ع
أَمْرَ
amra (the) command of Firaun أ م ر
فِرْعَوْنَ
fir'ʿawna (the) command of Firaun
وَمَآ
wamā and not
أَمْرُ
amru (the) command of Firaun أ م ر
فِرْعَوْنَ
fir'ʿawna (the) command of Firaun
بِرَشِيدٍ
birashīdin was right ر ش د
Verses related to verse 97
Cited by Ibn Kathir in his explanation of this verse
Al-Muzzammil 73:16
فَعَصَىٰ فِرْعَوْنُ ٱلرَّسُولَ فَأَخَذْنَٰهُ أَخْذًا وَبِيلًا
But Pharaoh disobeyed the messenger, so We seized him with a ruinous seizure.
An-Nazi’at 79:21–26
فَكَذَّبَ وَعَصَىٰ …
But he [i.e., Pharaoh] denied and disobeyed. …
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