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Surah Al-Ahqaf Verse 17

Quran 46:17 · The Wind-Curved Sandhills · Meccan · Juz 26

46:17

Arabic

وَالَّذِيْ قَالَ لِوَالِدَيْهِ اُفٍّ لَّكُمَآ اَتَعِدَانِنِيْٓ اَنْ اُخْرَجَ وَقَدْ خَلَتِ الْقُرُوْنُ مِنْ قَبْلِيْۚ وَهُمَا يَسْتَغِيْثٰنِ اللّٰهَ وَيْلَكَ اٰمِنْ ۖاِنَّ وَعْدَ اللّٰهِ حَقٌّۚ فَيَقُوْلُ مَا هٰذَآ اِلَّآ اَسَاطِيْرُ الْاَوَّلِيْنَ ۝١٧

Transliteration

Wal-lażī qōla liwālidaihi uffil lakumā ata‘idāninī an ukhroja wa qod kholatil qurūnu min qoblī, wa humā yastaghīṡānillāha wailaka āmin, inna wa‘dallāhi ḥaqq, fayaqūlu mā hāżā illā asāṭīrul-awwalīn

Meaning

As for him who says to his parents, “Enough of you! Are you promising me that I will be raised up, when generations have passed away before me?” While they cry for Allah’s help, “Woe to you! Believe! The promise of Allah is true!” But he says, “These are nothing but tales of the ancients.”

Surah Al-Ahqaf verse 17 (Quran 46:17) is verse 17 of the 35 verses of Surah Al-Ahqaf (The Wind-Curved Sandhills), a Meccan surah that is number 46 in the Quran, and it is part of juz 26.

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Arabic text: Ministry of Religious Affairs of Indonesia (Kemenag RI). Transliteration: Aplikita. English translation by Talal Itani, ClearQuran.com (CC BY-ND 4.0).