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 "id": "passage/quran-2-138",
 "class": "passage",
 "slug": "quran-2-138",
 "label": {
  "en": "Qur'an 2:138",
  "ar": "القرآن 2:138"
 },
 "summary": {
  "en": "Qur'an 2:138 (sura Al-Baqara, verse 138).",
  "ar": "القرآن 2:138 (سورة البقرة، الآية 138)."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [],
 "regions": [],
 "periods": [],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [],
 "data": {
  "unit": "ayah",
  "work": "work/quran",
  "ref": "2:138",
  "sura": 2,
  "aya": 138,
  "text": "صِبْغَةَ ٱللَّهِ ۖ وَمَنْ أَحْسَنُ مِنَ ٱللَّهِ صِبْغَةً ۖ وَنَحْنُ لَهُۥ عَـٰبِدُونَ",
  "text_search": "صبغة الله ۖ ومن أحسن من الله صبغة ۖ ونحن له عابدون",
  "translations": {
   "en": {
    "text": "(We take our) colour from Allah, and who is better than Allah at colouring. We are His worshippers.",
    "translator": "Marmaduke Pickthall",
    "license": "PD"
   },
   "ur": {
    "text": "(کہہ دو کہ ہم نے) خدا کا رنگ (اختیار کر لیا ہے) اور خدا سے بہتر رنگ کس کا ہو سکتا ہے۔ اور ہم اسی کی عبادت کرنے والے ہیں",
    "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 138 من [[passage/quran-2|سورة البقرة]]، وهي سورة مدنية. {cite:tanzil-quran}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "موضعها",
     "markdown": "موضعها: الآية 138 من أصل 286 آية في السورة. النص محفوظ من مصحف تنزيل المجمّد ولا يُعاد كتابته هنا."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "passage/quran-2-138",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-16"
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Summary",
     "markdown": "Verse 138 of [[passage/quran-2|Surat al-Baqara]], a Medinan surah. {cite:tanzil-quran}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Place in the museum",
     "markdown": "Its place: verse 138 of 286 verses in the surah. The text is kept in the frozen Tanzil mushaf and is not retyped here."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "passage/quran-2-138",
    "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 138 من [[passage/quran-2|سورۃ البقرہ]]، وہ مدنی سورت ہے۔ {cite:tanzil-quran}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "موضعها",
     "markdown": "موضعها: آیت 138، سورت کی کل 286 آیات میں سے۔ متن تنزیل کے منجمد مصحف سے محفوظ ہے اور یہاں دوبارہ نہیں لکھا جاتا۔"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "passage/quran-2-138",
    "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-2",
   "type": "part_of",
   "inverse": false
  }
 ],
 "related": [],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}