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Surah Al-A'raf Verse 138

Quran 7:138 · The Heights · Meccan · Juz 9

7:138

Arabic

وَجَاوَزْنَا بِبَنِيْٓ اِسْرَاۤءِيْلَ الْبَحْرَ فَاَتَوْا عَلٰى قَوْمٍ يَّعْكُفُوْنَ عَلٰٓى اَصْنَامٍ لَّهُمْ ۚقَالُوْا يٰمُوْسَى اجْعَلْ لَّنَآ اِلٰهًا كَمَا لَهُمْ اٰلِهَةٌ ۗقَالَ اِنَّكُمْ قَوْمٌ تَجْهَلُوْنَ ۝١٣٨

Transliteration

Wa jāwaznā bibanī isrō-īlal-baḥro fa atau ‘alā qoumiy ya‘kufūna ‘alā aṣnāmil lahum, qōlū yā mūsaj‘al lanā ilāhan kamā lahum ālihah, qōla innakum qoumun tajhalūn

Meaning

And We delivered the Children of Israel across the sea. And when they came upon a people who were devoted to some statues of theirs, they said, “O Moses, make for us a god, as they have gods.” He said, “You are truly an ignorant people.”

Surah Al-A'raf verse 138 (Quran 7:138) is verse 138 of the 206 verses of Surah Al-A'raf (The Heights), a Meccan surah that is number 7 in the Quran, and it is part of juz 9.

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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).