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Surah al-A`raf (The Elevated Places) 7 : 178

مَن يَهْدِ ٱللَّهُ فَهُوَ ٱلْمُهْتَدِى ۖ وَمَن يُضْلِلْ فَأُو۟لَٰٓئِكَ هُمُ ٱلْخَٰسِرُونَ

Translations

 
 Muhsin Khan
 Pickthall
 Yusuf Ali
Quran Project
Whoever Allāh guides - he is the [rightly] guided; and whoever He sends astray - it is those who are the losers.

Qur'an Dictionary

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Word Arabic word
(7:178:1)
(7:178:2)
yahdi
(is) guided
(7:178:3)
l-lahu
(by) Allah
(7:178:4)
(7:178:5)
l-muh'tadī
(is) the guided one
(7:178:6)
(7:178:7)
yuḍ'lil
He lets astray
(7:178:8)
(7:178:9)
(7:178:10)
l-khāsirūna
(are) the losers

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Explanatory Note

This verse sets out the terms very clearly. According to this law, which has already been explained in detail, whoever has God’s guidance is truly on the right path, and will surely attain his goal. He will be able to follow guidance in order to attain success and prosperity in the hereafter. Conversely, a person whom God lets go astray, in accordance with the same law, is indeed the loser, because he has lost everything and gained nothing, no matter how much he has in this life. All this accounts for nothing. We need only to remember that such a person has lost himself. What gain can such a person have after incurring such a loss?

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7. Period of Revelation

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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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