Text of verse 20:18
قَالَ هِىَ عَصَاىَ أَتَوَكَّؤُا۟ عَلَيْهَا وَأَهُشُّ بِهَا عَلَىٰ غَنَمِى وَلِىَ فِيهَا مَـَٔارِبُ أُخْرَىٰ ١٨
Transliteration
qāla hiya ʿaṣāya atawakka-u ʿalayhā wa-ahushu bihā ʿalā ghanamī waliya fīhā maāribu ukh'rā
Translation
He said, "It is my staff; I lean upon it, and I bring down leaves for my sheep and I have therein other uses."
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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 18 of Surah Taha (20:18), a Meccan surah, is in juz 16, on page 313 of the mushaf. Read it in Arabic with its transliteration, translations and tafsir, and listen to it recited by 73 reciters.
Tafsir of verse 18
Al-Mukhtasar
Moses (peace be upon him) said: It is my stick: I lean on it when walking, I beat down tree leaves with it for my sheep, and it has many other uses besides those I mentioned.
Tafsir of the whole Surah Taha
Other translations of verse 18
He said, “It is my staff. I lean on it and beat down leaves with it for my sheep, and I have other uses for it.”6
Notes [6] Moses could only say, “A staff.” But he instead gave details about the staff, for he was interested in prolonging the conversation with Allah.
He said: "This is my stick, whereon I lean, and wherewith I beat down branches for my sheep, and wherein I find other uses."
He said: This is my staff whereon I lean, and wherewith I bear down branches for my sheep, and wherein I find other uses.
He said, "It is my rod: on it I lean; with it I beat down fodder for my flocks; and in it I find other uses."
He said: This is my staff: I recline on it and I beat the leaves with it to make them fall upon my sheep, and I have other uses for it.
He said, "It is my staff. I lean upon it, and with it I beat down (leaves) for my sheep; and I (also) have other purposes for it."
Verse 18 word by word
قَالَ
qāla He said ق و ل
هِىَ
hiya It
عَصَاىَ
ʿaṣāya (is) my staff ع ص و
أَتَوَكَّؤُا۟
atawakka-u I lean و ك أ
عَلَيْهَا
ʿalayhā upon it
وَأَهُشُّ
wa-ahushu and I bring down leaves ه ش ش
بِهَا
bihā with it
عَلَىٰ
ʿalā for
غَنَمِى
ghanamī my sheep غ ن م
وَلِىَ
waliya and for me
فِيهَا
fīhā in it
مَـَٔارِبُ
maāribu (are) uses أ ر ب
أُخْرَىٰ
ukh'rā other أ خ ر
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