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

Quran 7:95

7:95

ثُمَّ بَدَّلْنَا مَكَانَ ٱلسَّيِّئَةِ ٱلْحَسَنَةَ حَتَّىٰ عَفَوا۟ وَّقَالُوا۟ قَدْ مَسَّ ءَابَآءَنَا ٱلضَّرَّآءُ وَٱلسَّرَّآءُ فَأَخَذْنَـٰهُم بَغْتَةً وَهُمْ لَا يَشْعُرُونَ

thumma baddalnā makāna l-sayi-ati l-ḥasanata ḥattā ʿafaw waqālū qad massa ābāanā l-ḍarāu wal-sarāu fa-akhadhnāhum baghtatan wahum lā yashʿurūna

Then We exchanged in place of the bad [condition], good, until they increased [and prospered] and said, "Our fathers [also] were touched with hardship and ease." So We seized them suddenly while they did not perceive.

— Saheeh International

and then We changed their hardship into prosperity, until they multiplied. But then they said, ‘Hardship and affluence also befell our forefathers,’ and so We took them suddenly, unawares.

— M. A. S. Abdel Haleem

Then We changed the evil for the good, until they increased in number and in wealth, and said: "Our fathers were touched with evil (loss of health and calamities) and with good (prosperity)." So We seized them all of a sudden while they were unaware.

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

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ثُمَّthummaThen
بَدَّلْنَاbaddalnāWe changed
مَكَانَmakāna(in) place
ٱلسَّيِّئَةِl-sayi-ati(of) the bad
ٱلْحَسَنَةَl-ḥasanatathe good
حَتَّىٰḥattāuntil
عَفَوا۟ʿafawthey increased
وَّقَالُوا۟waqālūand said
قَدْqadVerily
مَسَّmassa(had) touched
ءَابَآءَنَاābāanāour forefathers
ٱلضَّرَّآءُl-ḍarāuthe adversity
وَٱلسَّرَّآءُwal-sarāuand the ease
فَأَخَذْنَـٰهُمfa-akhadhnāhumSo We seized them
بَغْتَةًۭbaghtatansuddenly
وَهُمْwahumwhile they
لَاlā(did) not
يَشْعُرُونَyashʿurūnaperceive