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Surah 16. An-Nahl, Ayah 119

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ثُمَّ إِنَّ رَبَّكَ لِلَّذِينَ عَمِلُوا۟ ٱلسُّوٓءَ بِجَهَـٰلَةٍ ثُمَّ تَابُوا۟ مِنۢ بَعْدِ ذَٰلِكَ وَأَصْلَحُوٓا۟ إِنَّ رَبَّكَ مِنۢ بَعْدِهَا لَغَفُورٌ رَّحِيمٌ Qur’an An-Nahl (16:119)
Thumma inna rabbaka lilla th eena AAamiloo a l ssooa bijah a latin thumma t a boo min baAAdi tha lika waa s la h oo inna rabbaka min baAAdih a laghafoorun ra h eem un
And once again:143 Behold, thy Sustainer [shows mercy] to those who do evil out of ignorance and afterwards repent and live righteously: behold, after such [repentance] thy Sustainer is indeed much-forgiving, a dispenser of grace.
  - Mohammad Asad
Mohammad Asad

For this rendering of thumma, see surah {6}, note [31].

Yet your Rabb is forgiving and merciful towards those who do something wrong through ignorance, but later repent and mend their ways.
  - Muhammad Farooq-i-Azam Malik
Muhammad Farooq-i-Azam Malik
As for those who commit evil ignorantly 'or recklessly', then repent afterwards and mend their ways, then your Lord is surely All-Forgiving, Most Merciful.
  - Mustafa Khattab
Mustafa Khattab
Then lo! thy Lord for those who do evil in ignorance and afterward repent and amend--lo! (for them) thy Lord is afterward indeed Forgiving, Merciful.
  - Marmaduke Pickthall
Marmaduke Pickthall
But verily thy Lord to those who do wrong in ignorance but who thereafter repent and make amends thy Lord after all this is Oft-Forgiving Most Merciful. 2155
  - Abdullah Yusuf Ali
Abdullah Yusuf Ali

See above, xvi. 110 and n. 2147. The parallelism in construction confirms the suggestion of the alternative reading which is made in that note. The similarity of expressions also rounds off the argument, as by a refrain in poetry. What follows now in this Sura is an exhortation to right conduct.

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