Al-Mu'minun (The Believers)
Verse 83of 118
لَقَدْ وُعِدْنَا نَحْنُ وَءَابَآؤُنَا هَٰذَا مِن قَبْلُ إِنْ هَٰذَآ إِلَّآ أَسَٰطِيرُ ٱلْأَوَّلِينَ﴿٨٣﴾
Translation (Sahih International)
We have been promised this, we and our forefathers, before; this is not but legends of the former peoples."
Word-by-word meaning
لَقَدْlaqadVerily
وُعِدْنَاwuʿid'nāwe have been promised
نَحْنُnaḥnu[we]
وَءَابَآؤُنَاwaābāunāand our forefathers
هَـٰذَاhādhāthis
مِنminbefore
قَبْلُqablubefore
إِنْinnot
هَـٰذَآhādhā(is) this
إِلَّآillābut
أَسَـٰطِيرُasāṭīru(the) tales
ٱلْأَوَّلِينَl-awalīna(of) the former (people)
Commentary (Tafsir Ibn Kathir)
وَلَقَدْ أَخَذْنَـهُمْ بِالْعَذَابِ(And indeed We seized them with punishment,) means, `We tried and tested them with difficulties and calamities.' His saying:فَمَا اسْتَكَانُواْ لِرَبِّهِمْ وَمَا يَتَضَرَّعُونَ(but they humbled not themselves to their Lord, nor did they invoke with submission to Him.
Source: Tafsir Ibn Kathir — abridged excerpt
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