Translation of the meanings Surah Az-Zukhruf - English Translation - Noor International Center - Page Number 489 - The Noble Qur'an Encyclopedia

Az-Zukhruf

Ayah: 1

حمٓ

(1) Ḥā, Meem.^[1429]

[1429]- See footnote to 2:1.

Ayah: 2

وَٱلۡكِتَٰبِ ٱلۡمُبِينِ

(2) By the clear Book,

Ayah: 3

إِنَّا جَعَلۡنَٰهُ قُرۡءَٰنًا عَرَبِيّٗا لَّعَلَّكُمۡ تَعۡقِلُونَ

(3) Indeed, We have made it an Arabic Qur’ān that you might understand.

Ayah: 4

وَإِنَّهُۥ فِيٓ أُمِّ ٱلۡكِتَٰبِ لَدَيۡنَا لَعَلِيٌّ حَكِيمٌ

(4) And indeed it is, in the Mother of the Book^[1430] with Us, exalted and full of wisdom.^[1431]

[1430]- i.e., the Preserved Slate (al-Lawḥ al-Maḥfūẓ).
[1431]- Also, "precise" or "specific."

Ayah: 5

أَفَنَضۡرِبُ عَنكُمُ ٱلذِّكۡرَ صَفۡحًا أَن كُنتُمۡ قَوۡمٗا مُّسۡرِفِينَ

(5) Then should We turn the message away, disregarding you, because you are a transgressing people?

Ayah: 6

وَكَمۡ أَرۡسَلۡنَا مِن نَّبِيّٖ فِي ٱلۡأَوَّلِينَ

(6) And how many a prophet We sent among the former peoples,

Ayah: 7

وَمَا يَأۡتِيهِم مِّن نَّبِيٍّ إِلَّا كَانُواْ بِهِۦ يَسۡتَهۡزِءُونَ

(7) But there would not come to them a prophet except that they used to ridicule him.

Ayah: 8

فَأَهۡلَكۡنَآ أَشَدَّ مِنۡهُم بَطۡشٗا وَمَضَىٰ مَثَلُ ٱلۡأَوَّلِينَ

(8) And We destroyed greater than them^[1432] in [striking] power, and the example of the former peoples has preceded.

[1432]- The disbelievers of the Quraysh, who denied Prophet Muḥammad (ﷺ).

Ayah: 9

وَلَئِن سَأَلۡتَهُم مَّنۡ خَلَقَ ٱلسَّمَٰوَٰتِ وَٱلۡأَرۡضَ لَيَقُولُنَّ خَلَقَهُنَّ ٱلۡعَزِيزُ ٱلۡعَلِيمُ

(9) And if you should ask them, "Who has created the heavens and the earth?" they would surely say, "They were created by the Exalted in Might, the Knowing,"

Ayah: 10

ٱلَّذِي جَعَلَ لَكُمُ ٱلۡأَرۡضَ مَهۡدٗا وَجَعَلَ لَكُمۡ فِيهَا سُبُلٗا لَّعَلَّكُمۡ تَهۡتَدُونَ

(10) [The one] who has made for you the earth a bed and made for you upon it roads that you might be guided