Surah 10. Yunus, Ayah 36
| وَمَا يَتَّبِعُ أَكْثَرُهُمْ إِلَّا ظَنًّا ۚ إِنَّ الظَّنَّ لَا يُغْنِي مِنَ الْحَقِّ شَيْئًا ۚ إِنَّ اللَّهَ عَلِيمٌ بِمَا يَفْعَلُونَ |
| Transliteration | : | wa- maa yattabic akthar -hum 'illaa z.ann(an) 'inna az.- z.ann laa yughne min al- h.aqq shay'(an) 'inna 'allaah calem bi- maa yafcalon |
| Pickthall | : | Most of them follow naught but conjecture. Assuredly conjecture can by no means take the place of truth. Lo! Allah is Aware of what they do. |
| Asad | : | For, most of them follow nothing but conjecture: [and,] behold, conjecture can never be a substitute for truth.58 Verily, God has full knowledge of all that they do. |
| Malik | : | The fact is that most of them follow nothing but mere conjecture and conjecture is in no way a substitute for the truth. Surely Allah is well aware of all that they do. |
| Yusuf Ali | : | But most of them follow nothing but fancy: truly fancy can be of no avail against Truth. Verily Allah is well aware of all that they do. |
Note - 58Lit., "conjecture can in no wise make [anyone]
independent (la yughni) of the truth", i.e., of positive
insight obtained through authentic revelation (to which
the sequence relates). The people referred to here (and
apparently also in the first sentence of verse {53} of
this surah) are the agnostics who waver between truth and
falsehood. - Some of the great exponents of Islamic Law -
foremost among them Ibn Hazm - base on this verse their
rejection of qiyas ("deduction by analogy") as a means of
eliciting religious laws which are supposedly "implied"
in the wording of the Qur'an or of the Prophet's
teachings, but not clearly laid down in terms of law. In
his commentary on this verse, Razi thus sums up the above
view: "They say that every deduction by analogy is a
conjectural process and is, therefore, of necessity,
inadmissible [in matters pertaining to religion] - for
'conjecture can never be a substitute for truth'." (See
also {5:101-102}, and the corresponding notes [120-123].)
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Lit., "conjecture can in no wise make [anyone] independent (la yughni) of the truth", i.e., of positive insight obtained through authentic revelation (to which the sequence relates). The people referred to here (and apparently also in the first sentence of verse {53} of this surah) are the agnostics who waver between truth and falsehood. - Some of the great exponents of Islamic Law - foremost among them Ibn Hazm - base on this verse their rejection of qiyas ("deduction by analogy") as a means of eliciting religious laws which are supposedly "implied" in the wording of the Qur'an or of the Prophet's teachings, but not clearly laid down in terms of law. In his commentary on this verse, Razi thus sums up the above view: "They say that every deduction by analogy is a conjectural process and is, therefore, of necessity, inadmissible [in matters pertaining to religion] - for 'conjecture can never be a substitute for truth'." (See also {5:101-102}, and the corresponding notes [120-123].) |
