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Qur’an 70:41 Al-Ma'arij, verse 41

عَلَىٰٓ أَن نُّبَدِّلَ خَيْرًۭا مِّنْهُمْ وَمَا نَحْنُ بِمَسْبُوقِينَ

To replace them with better than them; and We are not to be outdone.

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

Surah
Al-Ma'arij (70)
Verse
41 of 44
Revealed
Makki
Juz
29
Mushaf page
570

Word by word

ArabicTransliterationMeaningRoot
عَلَىٰٓʿalā[On]
أَنanto
نُّبَدِّلَnubaddila[We] replaceب د ل
خَيْرًۭاkhayran(with) betterخ ي ر
مِّنْهُمْmin'humthan them
وَمَاwamāand not
نَحْنُnaḥnuWe
بِمَسْبُوقِينَbimasbūqīna(are) to be outrunس ب ق

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 70:41 in Al-Ma'arij.

  • 70:39كَلَّآ ۖ إِنَّا خَلَقْنَٰهُم مِّمَّا يَعْلَمُونَNo! Indeed, We have created them from that which they know.
  • 70:40فَلَآ أُقْسِمُ بِرَبِّ ٱلْمَشَٰرِقِ وَٱلْمَغَٰرِبِ إِنَّا لَقَٰدِرُونَSo I swear by the Lord of [all] risings and settings that indeed We are able
  • 70:42فَذَرْهُمْ يَخُوضُوا۟ وَيَلْعَبُوا۟ حَتَّىٰ يُلَٰقُوا۟ يَوْمَهُمُ ٱلَّذِى يُوعَدُونَSo leave them to converse vainly and amuse themselves until they meet their Day which they are promised -
  • 70:43يَوْمَ يَخْرُجُونَ مِنَ ٱلْأَجْدَاثِ سِرَاعًۭا كَأَنَّهُمْ إِلَىٰ نُصُبٍۢ يُوفِضُونَThe Day they will emerge from the graves rapidly as if they were, toward an erected idol, hastening.

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