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Al-Qur'an Surah Al-Mu'minun Verse 46

Al-Mu'minun [23]: 46 ~ English Qur'an Word By Word and Multi Tafseer

اِلٰى فِرْعَوْنَ وَمَلَا۟ىِٕهٖ فَاسْتَكْبَرُوْا وَكَانُوْا قَوْمًا عَالِيْنَ ۚ (المؤمنون : ٢٣)

ilā
إِلَىٰ
To
fir'ʿawna
فِرْعَوْنَ
Firaun
wamala-ihi
وَمَلَإِي۟هِۦ
and his chiefs
fa-is'takbarū
فَٱسْتَكْبَرُوا۟
but they behaved arrogantly
wakānū
وَكَانُوا۟
and they were
qawman
قَوْمًا
a people
ʿālīna
عَالِينَ
haughty

Transliteration:

Ilaa Fir'awna wa mala'ihee fastakbaroo wa kaanoo qawman 'aaleem (QS. al-Muʾminūn:46)

English / Sahih Translation:

To Pharaoh and his establishment, but they were arrogant and were a haughty people. (QS. Al-Mu'minun, ayah 46)

Mufti Taqi Usmani

towards Fir‘aun (Pharaoh) and his advisors. But they showed arrogance and they were haughty people.

Dr. Mustafa Khattab, the Clear Quran

to Pharaoh and his chiefs, but they behaved arrogantly and were a tyrannical people.

Ruwwad Translation Center

to Pharaoh and his chiefs, but they showed arrogance and were haughty people.

A. J. Arberry

unto Pharaoh and his Council; but they waxed proud, and they were a lofty people,

Abdul Haleem

to Pharaoh and his prominent leaders, but they responded with arrogance: they were a haughty people.

Abdul Majid Daryabadi

Unto Fir'awn and his chiefs, but they grew stiff-necked, and they were a people self-exalting.

Abdullah Yusuf Ali

To Pharaoh and his Chiefs; But these behaved insolently; they were an arrogant people.

Abul Ala Maududi

to Pharaoh and to his chiefs, but they behaved superciliously and they were haughty.

Ahmed Ali

To Pharaoh and his nobles who behaved with arrogance, for they were a conceited lot,

Ahmed Raza Khan

Towards Firaun and his court members – in response they were haughty, and they were in dominance.

Ali Quli Qarai

to Pharaoh and his elites; but they acted arrogantly and they were a tyrannical lot.

Ali Ünal

To the Pharaoh and his chiefs. But they grew arrogant in the face of them, and demonstrated that they were a haughty, self-exalting people.

Amatul Rahman Omar

To Pharaoh and his courtiers but they waxed proud for they were a haughty (type of) people.

English Literal

To Pharaoh, and his nobles/assembly , so they became arrogant and they were a high and mighty nation.

Faridul Haque

Towards Firaun and his court members – in response they were haughty, and they were in dominance.

Hamid S. Aziz

Then We sent Moses and his brother Aaron with Our signs, and with plain authority

Hilali & Khan

To Fir'aun (Pharaoh) and his chiefs, but they behaved insolently and they were people self-exalting (by disobeying their Lord, and exalting themselves over and above the Messenger of Allah).

Maulana Mohammad Ali

Then We sent Moses and his brother Aaron with Our messages and a clear authority

Mohammad Habib Shakir

To Firon and his chiefs, but they behaved haughtily and they were an insolent people.

Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall

Unto Pharaoh and his chiefs, but they scorned (them) and they were despotic folk.

Muhammad Sarwar

to the Pharaoh and his nobles. But they behaved proudly and thought themselves superior people.

Qaribullah & Darwish

to Pharaoh and his Council, but they were very proud, and they were a tyrannical nation.

Safi-ur-Rahman al-Mubarakpuri

To Fir`awn and his chiefs, but they behaved insolently and they were people self-exalting (by disobeying their Lord).

Wahiduddin Khan

to Pharaoh and his courtiers, but they behaved insolently, for they were an arrogant people.

Talal Itani

To Pharaoh and his nobles, but they turned arrogant. They were oppressive people.

Tafsir jalalayn

to Pharaoh and his council; but they disdained, to believing in them and in God, and they were a tyrannical folk, subjugating the Children of Israel through oppression.

Tafseer Ibn Kathir

فَقَالُوا أَنُوْمِنُ لِبَشَرَيْنِ مِثْلِنَا وَقَوْمُهُمَا لَنَا عَابِدُونَ