Surah Al-A'raf (الأعراف) • The Heights

Quran 7:130

7:130

وَلَقَدْ أَخَذْنَآ ءَالَ فِرْعَوْنَ بِٱلسِّنِينَ وَنَقْصٍ مِّنَ ٱلثَّمَرَٰتِ لَعَلَّهُمْ يَذَّكَّرُونَ

walaqad akhadhnā āla fir'ʿawna bil-sinīna wanaqṣin mina l-thamarāti laʿallahum yadhakkarūna

And We certainly seized the people of Pharaoh with years of famine and a deficiency in fruits that perhaps they would be reminded.

— Saheeh International

We inflicted years of drought and crop failure on Pharaoh’s people, so that they might take heed,

— M. A. S. Abdel Haleem

And indeed We punished the people of Fir‘aun (Pharaoh) with years of drought and shortness of fruits (crops), that they might remember (take heed).

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

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وَلَقَدْwalaqadAnd certainly
أَخَذْنَآakhadhnāWe seized
ءَالَāla(the) people
فِرْعَوْنَfir'ʿawna(of) Firaun
بِٱلسِّنِينَbil-sinīnawith years (of famine)
وَنَقْصٍۢwanaqṣinand a deficit
مِّنَminaof
ٱلثَّمَرَٰتِl-thamarāti[the] fruits
لَعَلَّهُمْlaʿallahumso that they may
يَذَّكَّرُونَyadhakkarūnareceive admonition