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 "id": "passage/quran-17-40",
 "class": "passage",
 "slug": "quran-17-40",
 "label": {
  "en": "Qur'an 17:40",
  "ar": "القرآن 17:40"
 },
 "summary": {
  "en": "Qur'an 17:40 (sura Al-Isra, verse 40).",
  "ar": "القرآن 17:40 (سورة الإسراء، الآية 40)."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [],
 "regions": [],
 "periods": [],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [],
 "data": {
  "unit": "ayah",
  "work": "work/quran",
  "ref": "17:40",
  "sura": 17,
  "aya": 40,
  "text": "أَفَأَصْفَىٰكُمْ رَبُّكُم بِٱلْبَنِينَ وَٱتَّخَذَ مِنَ ٱلْمَلَـٰٓئِكَةِ إِنَـٰثًا ۚ إِنَّكُمْ لَتَقُولُونَ قَوْلًا عَظِيمًا",
  "text_search": "أفأصفاكم ربكم بالبنين واتخذ من الملائكة إناثا ۚ إنكم لتقولون قولا عظيما",
  "translations": {
   "en": {
    "text": "Hath your Lord then distinguished you (O men of Makka) by giving you sons, and hath chosen for Himself females from among the angels? Lo! verily ye speak an awful word!",
    "translator": "Marmaduke Pickthall",
    "license": "PD"
   },
   "ur": {
    "text": "(مشرکو!) کیا تمہارے پروردگار نے تم کو لڑکے دیئے اور خود فرشتوں کو بیٹیاں بنایا۔ کچھ شک نہیں کہ (یہ) تم بڑی (نامعقول بات) کہتے ہو",
    "translator": "Fateh Muhammad Jalandhari",
    "license": "PD"
   }
  },
  "sensitivity": "sacred",
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "by",
   "source": "tanzil-quran-v1.1"
  },
  "sources": [
   "source/tanzil-quran",
   "source/tanzil-translations"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 1,
   "generated_by": "scripts/harvest/quran/generate.py; text byte-identical to Tanzil v1.1"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "الآية 40 من [[passage/quran-17|سورة الإسراء]]، وهي سورة مكية. {cite:tanzil-quran}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "موضعها",
     "markdown": "موضعها: الآية 40 من أصل 111 آية في السورة. النص محفوظ من مصحف تنزيل المجمّد ولا يُعاد كتابته هنا."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "passage/quran-17-40",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-16"
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Summary",
     "markdown": "Verse 40 of [[passage/quran-17|Surat al-Isra]], a Meccan surah. {cite:tanzil-quran}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Place in the museum",
     "markdown": "Its place: verse 40 of 111 verses in the surah. The text is kept in the frozen Tanzil mushaf and is not retyped here."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "passage/quran-17-40",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-17"
  },
  "ur": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "الآية 40 من [[passage/quran-17|سورۃ الاسراء]]، وہ مکی سورت ہے۔ {cite:tanzil-quran}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "موضعها",
     "markdown": "موضعها: آیت 40، سورت کی کل 111 آیات میں سے۔ متن تنزیل کے منجمد مصحف سے محفوظ ہے اور یہاں دوبارہ نہیں لکھا جاتا۔"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "passage/quran-17-40",
    "lang": "ur",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-17"
  }
 },
 "degree": 2,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "updated": "2026-10-17",
 "connections": [
  {
   "to": "passage/quran-17",
   "type": "part_of",
   "inverse": false
  }
 ],
 "related": [],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}