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Surah Taha, Verse 12

سورة طه، الآية ١٢

20:12 Juz 16 Hizb 32 Page 312 of the mushaf Meccan surah

Text of verse 20:12

إِنِّىٓ أَنَا۠ رَبُّكَ فَٱخْلَعْ نَعْلَيْكَ إِنَّكَ بِٱلْوَادِ ٱلْمُقَدَّسِ طُوًى ۝١٢

Transliteration

innī anā rabbuka fa-ikh'laʿ naʿlayka innaka bil-wādi l-muqadasi ṭuwan

Translation

Indeed, I am your Lord, so remove your sandals. Indeed, you are in the blessed valley of Ṭuwā.

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Verse 12 of Surah Taha (20:12), a Meccan surah, is in juz 16, on page 312 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 12

Al-Mukhtasar

I am your Lord. Take off your shoes in preparation for your conversation with me. You are in the purified valley (of Tuwa.)

Tafsir of the whole Surah Taha

Other translations of verse 12

Indeed, I am your Lord, so take off your shoes; you are in the sacred valley of Tuwā.

"Verily I am your Lord! So take off your shoes; you are in the sacred valley, Tuwa.

Lo! I, even I, am thy Lord, So take off thy shoes, for lo! thou art in the holy valley of Tuwa.

"Verily I am thy Lord! therefore (in My presence) put off thy shoes: thou art in the sacred valley Tuwa.

Surely I am your Lord, therefore put off your shoes; surely you are in the sacred valley, Tuwa,

Surely I, Ever I, am your Lord. So take off your shoes, surely you are in the holy valley, Tuwa.

Verse 12 word by word

إِنِّىٓ innī Indeed, [I]
أَنَا۠ anā I Am
رَبُّكَ rabbuka your Lord ر ب ب
فَٱخْلَعْ fa-ikh'laʿ so remove خ ل ع
نَعْلَيْكَ naʿlayka your shoes ن ع ل
إِنَّكَ innaka Indeed, you
بِٱلْوَادِ bil-wādi (are) in the valley و د ي
ٱلْمُقَدَّسِ l-muqadasi the sacred ق د س
طُوًى ṭuwan (of) Tuwa ط و ي

Verses related to verse 12

Cited by Ibn Kathir in his explanation of this verse

An-Nazi’at 79:16
إِذْ نَادَىٰهُ رَبُّهُۥ بِٱلْوَادِ ٱلْمُقَدَّسِ طُوًى

When his Lord called to him in the sacred valley of Ṭuwā,

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