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Surah al-A`raf (The Elevated Places) 7 : 159

وَمِن قَوْمِ مُوسَىٰٓ أُمَّةٌ يَهْدُونَ بِٱلْحَقِّ وَبِهِۦ يَعْدِلُونَ

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 Muhsin Khan
 Pickthall
 Yusuf Ali
Quran Project
And among the people of Moses is a community which guides by truth and by it establishes justice.

Qur'an Dictionary

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Word Arabic word
(7:159:1)
(7:159:2)
qawmi
(the) people
(7:159:3)
(7:159:4)
ummatun
(is) a community
(7:159:5)
yahdūna
(which) guides
(7:159:6)
bil-ḥaqi
with truth
(7:159:7)
(7:159:8)
yaʿdilūna
establishes justice

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Explanatory Note

This describes their situation at the time of Moses, and after him, which meant that there was among them a group who were keen to follow the truth and show its guidance and maintain justice. It was such people who received the Prophet Muhammad’s message with ready acceptance, since they were informed in the Torah of his forthcoming appearance. The most notable of these was `Abdullāh ibn Sallām (may God be pleased with him), a companion of the Prophet who stood up to the Jews in Madinah pointing out to them what the Torah says about the unlettered Prophet as well as the fact that Islamic law endorsed a number of Jewish laws.

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A study of its contents clearly shows that the period of its revelation is about the same as that of Surah 6: al-An’am (The Grazing Livestock), i.e. the last year of the Prophet's life at Makkah, but it cannot be asserted with certainty which of these two were sent down earlier. The manner of its admonition clearly indicates that it belongs to the same period. [Ref: Mawdudi]

It is considered the longest surah revealed during the Makkan period. Some consider this surah to have been revealed after Surah 38: Sad. [Ref: Tafsir al-Maudheei, Dr. Mustafah Muslim, vol. 3, p. 2]

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