Surah Al-Baqarah (البقرة) • The Cow

Quran 2:59

2:59

فَبَدَّلَ ٱلَّذِينَ ظَلَمُوا۟ قَوْلًا غَيْرَ ٱلَّذِى قِيلَ لَهُمْ فَأَنزَلْنَا عَلَى ٱلَّذِينَ ظَلَمُوا۟ رِجْزًا مِّنَ ٱلسَّمَآءِ بِمَا كَانُوا۟ يَفْسُقُونَ

fabaddala alladhīna ẓalamū qawlan ghayra alladhī qīla lahum fa-anzalnā ʿalā alladhīna ẓalamū rij'zan mina l-samāi bimā kānū yafsuqūna

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.

— Saheeh International

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.

— M. A. S. Abdel Haleem

But those who did wrong changed the word from that which had been told to them for another, so We sent upon the wrong-doers Rijz (a punishment) from the heaven because of their rebelling against Allâh’s obedience. (Tafsir At-Tabarî).

— Muhammad Muhsin Khan & Muhammad Taqi-ud-Din al-Hilali

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Word by Word

فَبَدَّلَfabaddalaBut changed
ٱلَّذِينَalladhīnathose who
ظَلَمُوا۟ẓalamūwronged
قَوْلًاqawlan(the) word
غَيْرَghayraother (than)
ٱلَّذِىalladhī(that) which
قِيلَqīlawas said
لَهُمْlahumto them
فَأَنزَلْنَاfa-anzalnāso We sent down
عَلَىʿalāupon
ٱلَّذِينَalladhīnathose who
ظَلَمُوا۟ẓalamūwronged
رِجْزًۭاrij'zana punishment
مِّنَminafrom
ٱلسَّمَآءِl-samāithe sky
بِمَاbimābecause
كَانُوا۟kānūthey were
يَفْسُقُونَyafsuqūnadefiantly disobeying