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Surah Sad (Sad) 38 : 23

إِنَّ هَٰذَآ أَخِى لَهُۥ تِسْعٌ وَتِسْعُونَ نَعْجَةً وَلِىَ نَعْجَةٌ وَٰحِدَةٌ فَقَالَ أَكْفِلْنِيهَا وَعَزَّنِى فِى ٱلْخِطَابِ

Translations

 
 Muhsin Khan
 Pickthall
 Yusuf Ali
Quran Project
Indeed this, my brother, has ninety-nine ewes, and I have one ewe; so he said, ‘Entrust her to me,’ and he overpowered me in speech."

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Word Arabic word
(38:23:1)
(38:23:2)
(38:23:3)
akhī
(is) my brother
(38:23:4)
(38:23:5)
tis'ʿun
ninety-nine
(38:23:6)
watis'ʿūna
ninety-nine
(38:23:7)
naʿjatan
ewe(s)
(38:23:8)
(38:23:9)
naʿjatun
ewe
(38:23:10)
wāḥidatun
one
(38:23:11)
faqāla
so he said
(38:23:12)
akfil'nīhā
Entrust her to me
(38:23:13)
waʿazzanī
and he overpowered me
(38:23:14)
(38:23:15)
l-khiṭābi
[the] speech

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One of them immediately started putting his case forward, saying that the other man, his brother, had 99 ewes while he only had one. Yet he insisted on taking charge of his single ewe, placing it with his 99.

 

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