Quran 2:59 — Al-Baqara, verse 59
M. A. S. Abdel Haleem · selected translation
But the wrongdoers substituted a different word from the one they had been given. So, because they persistently disobeyed, We sent a plague down from the heavens upon the wrongdoers.
فَبَدَّلَ الَّذِينَ ظَلَمُوا قَوْلًا غَيْرَ الَّذِي قِيلَ لَهُمْ فَأَنْزَلْنَا عَلَى الَّذِينَ ظَلَمُوا رِجْزًا مِنَ السَّمَاءِ بِمَا كَانُوا يَفْسُقُونَ
fabaddala alladhīna ẓalamū qawlan ghayra alladhī qīla lahum fa-anzalnā ʿalā alladhīna ẓalamū rij'zan mina l-samāi bimā kānū yafsuqūna
Other translations
- A. J. Arberry
- Then the evildoers substituted a saying other than that which had been said to them; so We sent down upon the evildoers wrath out of heaven for their ungodliness.
- Muhammad Asad
- But those who were bent on evildoing substituted another saying for that which had been given them: and so We sent down upon those evildoers a plague from heaven in requital for all their iniquity.
- Sahih International
- But those who wronged changed [those words] to a statement other than that which had been said to them, so We sent down upon those who wronged a punishment [i.e., plague] from the sky because they were defiantly disobeying.
Words
| # | Word | Meaning | Root |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | فَبَدَّلَfabaddala | But changed | بدل |
| 2 | ٱلَّذِينَalladhīna | those who | — |
| 3 | ظَلَمُوا۟ẓalamū | wronged | ظلم |
| 4 | قَوْلًاqawlan | (the) word | قول |
| 5 | غَيْرَghayra | other (than) | غير |
| 6 | ٱلَّذِىalladhī | (that) which | — |
| 7 | قِيلَqīla | was said | قول |
| 8 | لَهُمْlahum | to them | — |
| 9 | فَأَنزَلْنَاfa-anzalnā | so We sent down | نزل |
| 10 | عَلَىʿalā | upon | — |
| 11 | ٱلَّذِينَalladhīna | those who | — |
| 12 | ظَلَمُوا۟ẓalamū | wronged | ظلم |
| 13 | رِجْزًۭاrij'zan | a punishment | رجز |
| 14 | مِّنَmina | from | — |
| 15 | ٱلسَّمَآءِl-samāi | the sky | سمو |
| 16 | بِمَاbimā | because | — |
| 17 | كَانُوا۟kānū | they were | كون |
| 18 | يَفْسُقُونَyafsuqūna | defiantly disobeying | فسق |