Verses & audio · Session 11

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Eighteen ayat, 7:15 of recitation. Follow along, or play one ayah at a time.

Reading guide: the Arabic is the Uthmani text. The English is Saheeh International, quoted. The word-by-word glosses and card transliterations are editorial study adaptations with reference to the Quranic Arabic Corpus. Full-ayah transliterations are reproduced from AlQuran Cloud’s en.transliteration edition, with five editorial corrections recorded in the reading key below. Neither is part of Saheeh International.

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Mishary Rashid Alafasy · ayat 85–102 · 7:15, measured from the audio files.

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How to use the transliteration

Both transliterations on this page are reading aids, not pronunciation systems. If you read Arabic, ignore them and read the line above. They follow two different conventions, because they come from two different sources.

The word-by-word cards use long vowels ā ī ū and diacritics to distinguish Arabic consonants: for example, ḥ represents ح and ṣ represents ص. In the Corpus convention, an apostrophe can represent hamzah or mark sukūn (no following vowel); ʿ represents ʿayn. Thus the apostrophe in uʿ'budū does not indicate a hamzah. See the Corpus transcription guide.

The full-ayah transliteration is quoted from its source, which doubles the vowel letter instead of using a macron and does not mark the heavy letters. The card’s ṣirāṭin reads siraatin there, and fa-awfū l-kayla reads fa awful kaila. We keep the source’s spelling rather than re-spell a quoted text, except for five slips, each corrected to the spelling the same edition uses elsewhere. At ayah 86 the edition drops the first letter of tabghoonahaa, “seeking (to make) it”, and prints abghoonahaa; we follow its spelling at 3:99. At ayah 87 it prints yahkumual laahu; we print yahkumal laahu, as it writes at 10:109 and 12:80. At ayah 92 two letters are swapped in ka al alm yaghnaw; we print ka al lam yaghnaw, as at 11:68. At ayah 93 two words run together, aasaa'alaa; we print aasaa 'alaa, apart, as the edition writes 'alaa qawmin at 8:53. At ayah 95 one word is split, makaa nas; we print makaanas, one word, as the edition writes makaana at 16:101. Those five corrections are ours, not the source’s, and a reader who knows Arabic still needs to check them. Everything else in these lines is left exactly as the edition has it, including its usual way of splitting some words, such as lata'oo dunna at ayah 88 (the same at 14:13) and jaaa'at hum at ayah 101. In this edition an apostrophe usually stands for ʿayn, but in yaa qawmi' budul laaha at ayah 85 it only marks where two words run together; the edition spells the same call this way at 7:59, 7:65 and 7:73.

Use either aid alongside the recitation. Listen to the reciter for pronunciation; transliteration cannot capture every recitation detail.

بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ

Al-A'raf opens with the basmalah; it is not counted as ayah 1, and this session begins at ayah 85.

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7:85

7:86

7:87

7:88

7:89

7:90

7:91

7:92

7:93

7:94

7:95

7:96

7:97

7:98

7:99

7:100

7:101

7:102

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