Surah Al-A'raf 7:145 — translation and meaning

الأعراف · Verse 145 / 206 · Page 168

ۚ وَكَتَبْنَا لَهُ فِي الْأَلْوَاحِ مِن كُلِّ شَيْءٍ مَّوْعِظَةً وَتَفْصِيلًا لِّكُلِّ شَيْءٍ فَخُذْهَا بِقُوَّةٍ وَأْمُرْ قَوْمَكَ يَأْخُذُوا بِأَحْسَنِهَا سَأُرِيكُمْ دَارَ الْفَاسِقِينَ

Word by Word

ۚ
وَكَتَبْنَا
wakatabna
And We ordained (laws)
لَهُ
lahu
for him
فِي
fi
in
الْأَلْوَاحِ
al-alwahi
the tablets
مِن
min
of
كُلِّ
kulli
every
شَيْءٍ
shayin
thing
مَّوْعِظَةً
maw'izatan
an instruction
وَتَفْصِيلًا
watafsilan
and explanation
لِّكُلِّ
likulli
for every
شَيْءٍ
shayin
thing
فَخُذْهَا
fakhudh'ha
So take them
بِقُوَّةٍ
biquwwatin
with firmness
وَأْمُرْ
wamur
and order
قَوْمَكَ
qawmaka
your people
يَأْخُذُوا
yakhudhu
[to] take
بِأَحْسَنِهَا
bi-ahsaniha
(the) best of it
سَأُرِيكُمْ
sa-urikum
I will show you
دَارَ
dara
(the) home
الْفَاسِقِينَ
al-fasiqina
(of) the defiantly disobedient

Transliteration

Wa katabnaa lahoo fil alwaahi minkulli shai'immaw 'izaanw wa tafseelal likulli shai'in fakhuzhaa biquwwatinw waamur qawmaka yaakhuzoo bi ahsanihaa; wa ooreekum daaral faasiqeen

Translation

And We wrote for him on the tablets [something] of all things - instruction and explanation for all things, [saying], "Take them with determination and order your people to take the best of it. I will show you the home of the defiantly disobedient."

Verse interpretation (Tafsir)

Allah wrote for Moses in the Tablets everything that the Israelites would need for their spiritual and worldly affairs – instruction for those who would be instructed and an explanation of laws that needed explanation. He told Moses to take hold of them firmly and with determination, and to instruct his people, the Israelites, to take hold of the most excellent instructions that they contained, with the promise of the greatest reward for doing what they were instructed in the most perfect way, and to do so with patience and forgiveness. Allah told Moses that He would show them the destiny of those who went against His commands and who disobeyed Him, and the ruin and loss that they would receive as a result.

Source: Al-Mukhtasar Tafsir — Tafsir Center for Quranic Studies.

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