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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.
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- Al-Qalam (68)
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Word by word
| Arabic | Transliteration | Meaning | Root |
|---|---|---|---|
| فَٱصْبِرْ | fa-iṣ'bir | So be patient | ص ب ر |
| لِحُكْمِ | liḥuk'mi | for (the) decision | ح ك م |
| رَبِّكَ | rabbika | (of) your Lord | ر ب ب |
| وَلَا | walā | and (do) not | |
| تَكُن | takun | be | ك و ن |
| كَصَاحِبِ | kaṣāḥibi | like (the) companion | ص ح ب |
| ٱلْحُوتِ | l-ḥūti | (of) the fish | ح و ت |
| إِذْ | idh | when | |
| نَادَىٰ | nādā | he called out | ن د ي |
| وَهُوَ | wahuwa | while he | |
| مَكْظُومٌۭ | makẓūmun | (was) distressed | ك 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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