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Qur’an 68:15 Al-Qalam, verse 15

إِذَا تُتْلَىٰ عَلَيْهِ ءَايَٰتُنَا قَالَ أَسَٰطِيرُ ٱلْأَوَّلِينَ

When Our verses are recited to him, he says, "Legends of the former peoples."

Translation: Saheeh International. Brackets mark words added for clarity.

Surah
Al-Qalam (68)
Verse
15 of 52
Revealed
Makki
Juz
29
Mushaf page
564

Word by word

ArabicTransliterationMeaningRoot
إِذَاidhāWhen
تُتْلَىٰtut'lāare recitedت ل و
عَلَيْهِʿalayhito him
ءَايَـٰتُنَاāyātunāOur Versesأ ي ي
قَالَqālahe saysق و ل
أَسَـٰطِيرُasāṭīruStoriesس ط ر
ٱلْأَوَّلِينَl-awalīna(of) the former (people)أ و ل

Tap a root to see every word built from it. Root and lemma data: Quranic Arabic Corpus (Kais Dukes, University of Leeds), revised by quran-morphology, GNU GPL. All sources.

In context

The verses around 68:15 in Al-Qalam.

  • 68:13عُتُلٍّۭ بَعْدَ ذَٰلِكَ زَنِيمٍCruel, moreover, and an illegitimate pretender.
  • 68:14أَن كَانَ ذَا مَالٍۢ وَبَنِينَBecause he is a possessor of wealth and children,
  • 68:16سَنَسِمُهُۥ عَلَى ٱلْخُرْطُومِWe will brand him upon the snout.
  • 68:17إِنَّا بَلَوْنَٰهُمْ كَمَا بَلَوْنَآ أَصْحَٰبَ ٱلْجَنَّةِ إِذْ أَقْسَمُوا۟ لَيَصْرِمُنَّهَا مُصْبِحِينَIndeed, We have tried them as We tried the companions of the garden, when they swore to cut its fruit in the [early] morning

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