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Sad
Surah 38
Verse 24
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The Letter 'Saad' • makkah
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العربیّا عثمانی (Arabic Uthmani)
English - Hazrat Molavi Sher Ali ra
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English - Topics
38:24
إِنَّ هَٰذَآ أَخِى لَهُۥ تِسْعٌ وَتِسْعُونَ نَعْجَةً وَلِىَ نَعْجَةٌ وَٰحِدَةٌ فَقَالَ أَكْفِلْنِيهَا وَعَزَّنِى فِى ٱلْخِطَابِ
English - Hazrat Molavi Sher Ali ra
“This is my brother; he has ninety-nine ewes, and I have one ewe. Yet he says, ‘Give it to me,’ and has been overbearing to me in his address.”
English - Five Volume Translation
This is my brother; he has ninety-nine ewes, and I have only one ewe. Yet he says, ‘Give it to me,’ and has been overbearing to me in his address.”[3394]
English - Short Commentary Translation
“Now this my brother has ninety-nine ewes, and I have only one ewe. Yet he says, ‘Give it to me,’ and he has been overbearing to me in his address.”[2524]
This verse refers to the story which the two intending murderers of David, finding him quite vigilant, seemed to have invented, at the spur of the moment, in an endeavour to disabuse his mind of any misgiving he might have entertained about them, and to set his fear at rest.