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وَسْـَٔلْهُمْ عَنِ ٱلْقَرْيَةِ ٱلَّتِى كَانَتْ حَاضِرَةَ ٱلْبَحْرِ إِذْ يَعْدُونَ فِى ٱلسَّبْتِ إِذْ تَأْتِيهِمْ حِيتَانُهُمْ يَوْمَ سَبْتِهِمْ شُرَّعًا وَيَوْمَ لَا يَسْبِتُونَ ۙ لَا تَأْتِيهِمْ ۚ كَذَٰلِكَ نَبْلُوهُم بِمَا كَانُوا۟ يَفْسُقُونَ
Text: Tanzil Project,tanzil.net · verbatim and unchanged · previous verse · next verse
Ask them (O Muhammad) of the township that was by the sea, how they did break the Sabbath, how their big fish came unto them visibly upon their Sabbath day and on a day when they did not keep Sabbath came they not unto them. Thus did We try them for that they were evil-livers.— Marmaduke Pickthall
Summary
Verse 163 of Surat al-A'raf, a Meccan surah. 1
Place in the museum
Its place: verse 163 of 206 verses in the surah. The text is kept in the frozen Tanzil mushaf and is not retyped here.
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- Sura 7: Al-A'raf
Sources
- Tanzil Project, Qur'an text v1.1
- Tanzil Project, public-domain translations
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islam.museum contributors. “Qur'an 7:163”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/passage/quran-7-163/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-17.