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Qur’an 68:48 Al-Qalam, verse 48

فَٱصْبِرْ لِحُكْمِ رَبِّكَ وَلَا تَكُن كَصَاحِبِ ٱلْحُوتِ إِذْ نَادَىٰ وَهُوَ مَكْظُومٌۭ

Then be patient for the decision of your Lord, [O Muhammad], and be not like the companion of the fish when he called out while he was distressed.

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

Surah
Al-Qalam (68)
Verse
48 of 52
Revealed
Makki
Juz
29
Mushaf page
566

Word by word

ArabicTransliterationMeaningRoot
فَٱصْبِرْfa-iṣ'birSo be patientص ب ر
لِحُكْمِliḥuk'mifor (the) decisionح ك م
رَبِّكَrabbika(of) your Lordر ب ب
وَلَاwalāand (do) not
تَكُنtakunbeك و ن
كَصَاحِبِkaṣāḥibilike (the) companionص ح ب
ٱلْحُوتِl-ḥūti(of) the fishح و ت
إِذْidhwhen
نَادَىٰnādāhe called outن د ي
وَهُوَwahuwawhile he
مَكْظُومٌۭmakẓūmun(was) distressedك ظ م

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 68:48 in Al-Qalam.

  • 68:46أَمْ تَسْـَٔلُهُمْ أَجْرًۭا فَهُم مِّن مَّغْرَمٍۢ مُّثْقَلُونَOr do you ask of them a payment, so they are by debt burdened down?
  • 68:47أَمْ عِندَهُمُ ٱلْغَيْبُ فَهُمْ يَكْتُبُونَOr have they [knowledge of] the unseen, so they write [it] down?
  • 68:49لَّوْلَآ أَن تَدَٰرَكَهُۥ نِعْمَةٌۭ مِّن رَّبِّهِۦ لَنُبِذَ بِٱلْعَرَآءِ وَهُوَ مَذْمُومٌۭIf not that a favor from his Lord overtook him, he would have been thrown onto the naked shore while he was censured.
  • 68:50فَٱجْتَبَٰهُ رَبُّهُۥ فَجَعَلَهُۥ مِنَ ٱلصَّٰلِحِينَAnd his Lord chose him and made him of the righteous.

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