Surah 26 · verse 3
Ash-Shu'ara 26:3
Sign in to listenلَعَلَّكَ بَاخِعٌ نَّفْسَكَ أَلَّا يَكُونُوا مُؤْمِنِينَ
la'allaka bakhin nafsaka alla yakunu mu'minin
Perhaps, [O Muhammad], you would kill yourself with grief that they will not be believers.
Saheeh International translation
Context in the surah
بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَـٰنِ الرَّحِيمِ طسم
Ta, Seen, Meem.
Verse 2تِلْكَ آيَاتُ الْكِتَابِ الْمُبِينِ
These are the verses of the clear Book.
لَعَلَّكَ بَاخِعٌ نَّفْسَكَ أَلَّا يَكُونُوا مُؤْمِنِينَ
Perhaps, [O Muhammad], you would kill yourself with grief that they will not be believers.
إِن نَّشَأْ نُنَزِّلْ عَلَيْهِم مِّنَ السَّمَاءِ آيَةً فَظَلَّتْ أَعْنَاقُهُمْ لَهَا خَاضِعِينَ
If We willed, We could send down to them from the sky a sign for which their necks would remain humbled.
Verse 5وَمَا يَأْتِيهِم مِّن ذِكْرٍ مِّنَ الرَّحْمَـٰنِ مُحْدَثٍ إِلَّا كَانُوا عَنْهُ مُعْرِضِينَ
And no revelation comes to them anew from the Most Merciful except that they turn away from it.
Verse 6فَقَدْ كَذَّبُوا فَسَيَأْتِيهِمْ أَنبَاءُ مَا كَانُوا بِهِ يَسْتَهْزِئُونَ
For they have already denied, but there will come to them the news of that which they used to ridicule.