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Qur’an 72:16 Al-Jinn, verse 16

وَأَلَّوِ ٱسْتَقَٰمُوا۟ عَلَى ٱلطَّرِيقَةِ لَأَسْقَيْنَٰهُم مَّآءً غَدَقًۭا

And [Allah revealed] that if they had remained straight on the way, We would have given them abundant provision

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

Surah
Al-Jinn (72)
Verse
16 of 28
Revealed
Makki
Juz
29
Mushaf page
573

Word by word

ArabicTransliterationMeaningRoot
وَأَلَّوِwa-allawiAnd that if
ٱسْتَقَـٰمُوا۟is'taqāmūthey had remainedق و م
عَلَىʿalāon
ٱلطَّرِيقَةِl-ṭarīqatithe Wayط ر ق
لَأَسْقَيْنَـٰهُمla-asqaynāhumsurely We (would) have given them to drinkس ق ي
مَّآءًmāanwaterم و ه
غَدَقًۭاghadaqan(in) abundanceغ د 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 72:16 in Al-Jinn.

  • 72:14وَأَنَّا مِنَّا ٱلْمُسْلِمُونَ وَمِنَّا ٱلْقَٰسِطُونَ ۖ فَمَنْ أَسْلَمَ فَأُو۟لَٰٓئِكَ تَحَرَّوْا۟ رَشَدًۭاAnd among us are Muslims [in submission to Allah], and among us are the unjust. And whoever has become Muslim - those have sought out the right course.
  • 72:15وَأَمَّا ٱلْقَٰسِطُونَ فَكَانُوا۟ لِجَهَنَّمَ حَطَبًۭاBut as for the unjust, they will be, for Hell, firewood.'
  • 72:17لِّنَفْتِنَهُمْ فِيهِ ۚ وَمَن يُعْرِضْ عَن ذِكْرِ رَبِّهِۦ يَسْلُكْهُ عَذَابًۭا صَعَدًۭاSo We might test them therein. And whoever turns away from the remembrance of his Lord He will put into arduous punishment.
  • 72:18وَأَنَّ ٱلْمَسَٰجِدَ لِلَّهِ فَلَا تَدْعُوا۟ مَعَ ٱللَّهِ أَحَدًۭاAnd [He revealed] that the masjids are for Allah, so do not invoke with Allah anyone.

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