سورة ص، الآية ٨٣
إِلَّا عِبَادَكَ مِنْهُمُ ٱلْمُخْلَصِينَ ٨٣
illā ʿibādaka min'humu l-mukh'laṣīna
Except, among them, Your chosen servants."
Verse 83 of Surah Sad (38:83), a Meccan surah, is in juz 23, on page 457 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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Except whom You protect from my misguiding and You have chosen to worship You alone”.
except for Your chosen slaves among them.”
"Except Your chosen slaves amongst them (i.e. faithful, obedient, true believers of Islâmic Monotheism)."
Save Thy single-minded slaves among them.
"Except Thy Servants amongst them, sincere and purified (by Thy Grace)."
Except Thy servants from among them, the purified ones.
Excepting Your bondmen among them that are most faithful (to You)."
إِنَّ عِبَادِى لَيْسَ لَكَ عَلَيْهِمْ سُلْطَٰنٌ وَكَفَىٰ بِرَبِّكَ وَكِيلًا
Indeed, over My [believing] servants there is for you no authority. And sufficient is your Lord as Disposer of affairs.
They share a sequence of words with this verse: useful for telling them apart when memorising.
إِلَّا عِبَادَكَ مِنْهُمُ ٱلْمُخْلَصِينَ
Except, among them, Your chosen servants."
