Surah Al-Anbya, Ayah 41-60 — Word by Word
الأنبياء
The Prophets
Explanations are simplified from tafsirs by Ibn Kathir, Mufti Muhammad Shafi, and Maulana Wahiduddin Khan. Spot an inaccuracy? Let us know.
walaqadi us'tuh'zi-a birusulin min qablika faḥāqa bi-alladhīna sakhirū min'hum mā kānū bihi yastahziūna
And already were messengers ridiculed before you, but those who mocked them were enveloped by what they used to ridicule.
qul man yakla-ukum bi-al-layli wal-nahāri mina l-raḥmāni bal hum ʿan dhik'ri rabbihim muʿ'riḍūna
Say, "Who can protect you at night or by day from the Most Merciful?" But they are, from the remembrance of their Lord, turning away.
am lahum ālihatun tamnaʿuhum min dūninā lā yastaṭīʿūna naṣra anfusihim walā hum minnā yuṣ'ḥabūna
Or do they have gods to defend them other than Us? They are unable [even] to help themselves, nor can they be protected from Us.
bal mattaʿnā hāulāi waābāahum ḥattā ṭāla ʿalayhimu l-ʿumuru afalā yarawna annā natī l-arḍa nanquṣuhā min aṭrāfihā afahumu l-ghālibūna
But, [on the contrary], We have provided good things for these [disbelievers] and their fathers until life was prolonged for them. Then do they not see that We set upon the land, reducing it from its borders? Is it they who will overcome?
qul innamā undhirukum bil-waḥyi walā yasmaʿu l-ṣumu l-duʿāa idhā mā yundharūna
Say, "I only warn you by revelation." But the deaf do not hear the call when they are warned.
wala-in massathum nafḥatun min ʿadhābi rabbika layaqūlunna yāwaylanā innā kunnā ẓālimīna
And if [as much as] a whiff of the punishment of your Lord should touch them, they would surely say, "O woe to us! Indeed, we have been wrongdoers."
wanaḍaʿu l-mawāzīna l-qis'ṭa liyawmi l-qiyāmati falā tuẓ'lamu nafsun shayan wa-in kāna mith'qāla ḥabbatin min khardalin ataynā bihā wakafā binā ḥāsibīna
And We place the scales of justice for the Day of Resurrection, so no soul will be treated unjustly at all. And if there is [even] the weight of a mustard seed, We will bring it forth. And sufficient are We as accountant.
walaqad ātaynā mūsā wahārūna l-fur'qāna waḍiyāan wadhik'ran lil'muttaqīna
And We had already given Moses and Aaron the criterion and a light and a reminder for the righteous
alladhīna yakhshawna rabbahum bil-ghaybi wahum mina l-sāʿati mush'fiqūna
Who fear their Lord unseen, while they are of the Hour apprehensive.
wahādhā dhik'run mubārakun anzalnāhu afa-antum lahu munkirūna
And this [Qur’ān] is a blessed message which We have sent down. Then are you with it unacquainted?
walaqad ātaynā ib'rāhīma rush'dahu min qablu wakunnā bihi ʿālimīna
And We had certainly given Abraham his sound judgement before, and We were of him well-Knowing
idh qāla li-abīhi waqawmihi mā hādhihi l-tamāthīlu allatī antum lahā ʿākifūna
When he said to his father and his people, "What are these statues to which you are devoted?"
qālū wajadnā ābāanā lahā ʿābidīna
They said, "We found our fathers worshippers of them."
qāla laqad kuntum antum waābāukum fī ḍalālin mubīnin
He said, "You were certainly, you and your fathers, in manifest error."
qālū aji'tanā bil-ḥaqi am anta mina l-lāʿibīna
They said, "Have you come to us with truth, or are you of those who jest?"
qāla bal rabbukum rabbu l-samāwāti wal-arḍi alladhī faṭarahunna wa-anā ʿalā dhālikum mina l-shāhidīna
He said, "[No], rather, your Lord is the Lord of the heavens and the earth who created them, and I, to that, am of those who testify.
watal-lahi la-akīdanna aṣnāmakum baʿda an tuwallū mud'birīna
And [I swear] by Allāh, I will surely plan against your idols after you have turned and gone away."
fajaʿalahum judhādhan illā kabīran lahum laʿallahum ilayhi yarjiʿūna
So he made them into fragments, except a large one among them, that they might return to it [and question].
qālū man faʿala hādhā biālihatinā innahu lamina l-ẓālimīna
They said, "Who has done this to our gods? Indeed, he is of the wrongdoers."
qālū samiʿ'nā fatan yadhkuruhum yuqālu lahu ib'rāhīmu
They said, "We heard a young man mention them who is called Abraham."