The Heights
7. Al-A'rāf
الأعراف
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وَقَطَّعْنَاهُمْ
فِي
الْأَرْضِ
أُمَمًا
مِّنْهُمُ
الصَّالِحُونَ
وَمِنْهُمْ
دُونَ
ذَلِكَ
وَبَلَوْنَاهُم
بِالْحَسَنَاتِ
وَالسَّيِّئَاتِ
لَعَلَّهُمْ
يَرْجِعُونَ
wa-qaṭṭaʿnāhum fī l-ʾarḍi ʾumaman minhumu ṣ-ṣāliḥūna wa-minhum dūna dhālika wa-balawnāhum bi-l-ḥasanāti wa-s-sayyiʾāti laʿallahum yarjiʿūna
We broke them up into sections on this earth. There are among them some that are the righteous, and some that are the opposite. We have tried them with both prosperity and adversity: In order that they might turn (to us).
— Abdullah Yusufali
We dispersed them into communities around the earth: some of them were righteous, and some of them otherwise, and We tested them with good and bad [times] so that they may come back.
