Surah Ash-Shu'ara, Ayah 101-120 — Word by Word
الشعراء
The Poets
Explanations are simplified from tafsirs by Ibn Kathir, Mufti Muhammad Shafi, and Maulana Wahiduddin Khan. Spot an inaccuracy? Let us know.
walā ṣadīqin ḥamīmin
And not a devoted friend.
falaw anna lanā karratan fanakūna mina l-mu'minīna
Then if we only had a return [to the world] and could be of the believers..."
inna fī dhālika laāyatan wamā kāna aktharuhum mu'minīna
Indeed in that is a sign, but most of them were not to be believers.
wa-inna rabbaka lahuwa l-ʿazīzu l-raḥīmu
And indeed, your Lord - He is the Exalted in Might, the Merciful.
kadhabat qawmu nūḥin l-mur'salīna
The people of Noah denied the messengers
idh qāla lahum akhūhum nūḥun alā tattaqūna
When their brother Noah said to them, "Will you not fear Allāh?
innī lakum rasūlun amīnun
Indeed, I am to you a trustworthy messenger.
fa-ittaqū l-laha wa-aṭīʿūni
So fear Allāh and obey me.
wamā asalukum ʿalayhi min ajrin in ajriya illā ʿalā rabbi l-ʿālamīna
And I do not ask you for it any payment. My payment is only from the Lord of the worlds.
fa-ittaqū l-laha wa-aṭīʿūni
So fear Allāh and obey me."
qālū anu'minu laka wa-ittabaʿaka l-ardhalūna
They said, "Should we believe you while you are followed by the lowest [class of people]?"
qāla wamā ʿil'mī bimā kānū yaʿmalūna
He said, "And what is my knowledge of what they used to do?
in ḥisābuhum illā ʿalā rabbī law tashʿurūna
Their account is only upon my Lord, if you [could] perceive.
wamā anā biṭāridi l-mu'minīna
And I am not one to drive away the believers.
in anā illā nadhīrun mubīnun
I am only a clear warner."
qālū la-in lam tantahi yānūḥu latakūnanna mina l-marjūmīna
They said, "If you do not desist, O Noah, you will surely be of those who are stoned."
qāla rabbi inna qawmī kadhabūni
He said, "My Lord, indeed my people have denied me.
fa-if'taḥ baynī wabaynahum fatḥan wanajjinī waman maʿiya mina l-mu'minīna
Then judge between me and them with decisive judgement and save me and those with me of the believers."
fa-anjaynāhu waman maʿahu fī l-ful'ki l-mashḥūni
So We saved him and those with him in the laden ship.
thumma aghraqnā baʿdu l-bāqīna
Then We drowned thereafter the remaining ones.