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Surah Taha, Verse 51

سورة طه، الآية ٥١

20:51 Juz 16 Hizb 32 Page 314 of the mushaf Meccan surah

Text of verse 20:51

قَالَ فَمَا بَالُ ٱلْقُرُونِ ٱلْأُولَىٰ ۝٥١

Transliteration

qāla famā bālu l-qurūni l-ūlā

Translation

[Pharaoh] said, "Then what is the case of the former generations?"

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Verse 51 of Surah Taha (20:51), a Meccan surah, is in juz 16, on page 314 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 51

Al-Mukhtasar

Pharaoh said: What about the previous communities who had disbelieved?

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Other translations of verse 51

Pharaoh said, “Then what about the former [disbelieving] nations?”

[Fir‘aun (Pharaoh)] said: "What about the generations of old?"

He said: What then is the state of the generations of old?

(Pharaoh) said: "What then is the condition of previous generations?"

He said: Then what is the state of the former generations?

He said, "Then what about the earliest generations?"

Verse 51 word by word

قَالَ qāla He said ق و ل
فَمَا famā Then what
بَالُ bālu (is the) case ب و ل
ٱلْقُرُونِ l-qurūni (of) the generations ق ر ن
ٱلْأُولَىٰ l-ūlā (of) the former أ و ل

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