Surah Taha, Ayah 41-60 — Word by Word
طه
Ta-Ha
Explanations are simplified from tafsirs by Ibn Kathir, Mufti Muhammad Shafi, and Maulana Wahiduddin Khan. Spot an inaccuracy? Let us know.
wa-iṣ'ṭanaʿtuka linafsī
And I produced you for Myself.
idh'hab anta wa-akhūka biāyātī walā taniyā fī dhik'rī
Go, you and your brother, with My signs and do not slacken in My remembrance.
idh'habā ilā fir'ʿawna innahu ṭaghā
Go, both of you, to Pharaoh. Indeed, he has transgressed.
faqūlā lahu qawlan layyinan laʿallahu yatadhakkaru aw yakhshā
And speak to him with gentle speech that perhaps he may be reminded or fear [Allāh]."
qālā rabbanā innanā nakhāfu an yafruṭa ʿalaynā aw an yaṭghā
They said, "Our Lord, indeed we are afraid that he will hasten [punishment] against us or that he will transgress."
qāla lā takhāfā innanī maʿakumā asmaʿu wa-arā
[Allāh] said, "Fear not. Indeed, I am with you both; I hear and I see.
fatiyāhu faqūlā innā rasūlā rabbika fa-arsil maʿanā banī is'rāīla walā tuʿadhib'hum qad ji'nāka biāyatin min rabbika wal-salāmu ʿalā mani ittabaʿa l-hudā
So go to him and say, 'Indeed, we are messengers of your Lord, so send with us the Children of Israel and do not torment them. We have come to you with a sign from your Lord. And peace will be upon he who follows the guidance.
innā qad ūḥiya ilaynā anna l-ʿadhāba ʿalā man kadhaba watawallā
Indeed, it has been revealed to us that the punishment will be upon whoever denies and turns away.'"
qāla faman rabbukumā yāmūsā
[Pharaoh] said, "So who is the Lord of you two, O Moses?"
qāla rabbunā alladhī aʿṭā kulla shayin khalqahu thumma hadā
He said, "Our Lord is He who gave each thing its form and then guided [it]."
qāla famā bālu l-qurūni l-ūlā
[Pharaoh] said, "Then what is the case of the former generations?"
qāla ʿil'muhā ʿinda rabbī fī kitābin lā yaḍillu rabbī walā yansā
[Moses] said, "The knowledge thereof is with my Lord in a record. My Lord neither errs nor forgets."
alladhī jaʿala lakumu l-arḍa mahdan wasalaka lakum fīhā subulan wa-anzala mina l-samāi māan fa-akhrajnā bihi azwājan min nabātin shattā
[It is He] who has made for you the earth as a bed [spread out] and inserted therein for you roadways and sent down from the sky, rain and produced thereby categories of various plants.
kulū wa-ir'ʿaw anʿāmakum inna fī dhālika laāyātin li-ulī l-nuhā
Eat [therefrom] and pasture your livestock. Indeed in that are signs for those of intelligence.
min'hā khalaqnākum wafīhā nuʿīdukum wamin'hā nukh'rijukum tāratan ukh'rā
From it [i.e., the earth] We created you, and into it We will return you, and from it We will extract you another time.
walaqad araynāhu āyātinā kullahā fakadhaba wa-abā
And We certainly showed him [i.e., Pharaoh] Our signs - all of them - but he denied and refused.
qāla aji'tanā litukh'rijanā min arḍinā bisiḥ'rika yāmūsā
He said, "Have you come to us to drive us out of our land with your magic, O Moses?
falanatiyannaka bisiḥ'rin mith'lihi fa-ij'ʿal baynanā wabaynaka mawʿidan lā nukh'lifuhu naḥnu walā anta makānan suwan
Then we will surely bring you magic like it, so make between us and you an appointment, which we will not fail to keep and neither will you, in a place assigned."
qāla mawʿidukum yawmu l-zīnati wa-an yuḥ'shara l-nāsu ḍuḥan
[Moses] said, "Your appointment is on the day of the festival when the people assemble at mid-morning."
fatawallā fir'ʿawnu fajamaʿa kaydahu thumma atā
So Pharaoh went away, put together his plan, and then came [to Moses].