Surah 12. Yusuf, Ayah 109
| وَمَا أَرْسَلْنَا مِنْ قَبْلِكَ إِلَّا رِجَالًا نُوحِي إِلَيْهِمْ مِنْ أَهْلِ الْقُرَىٰ ۗ أَفَلَمْ يَسِيرُوا فِي الْأَرْضِ فَيَنْظُرُوا كَيْفَ كَانَ عَاقِبَةُ الَّذِينَ مِنْ قَبْلِهِمْ ۗ وَلَدَارُ الْآخِرَةِ خَيْرٌ لِلَّذِينَ اتَّقَوْا ۗ أَفَلَا تَعْقِلُونَ |
| Transliteration | : | wa- maa arsalnaa min qabli -ka 'illaa rijaal(an) noh.e 'ilay -him min 'ahl al- quraa 'a- fa- lam yasero fe al- 'ard. fa- yanz.uro kayfa kaana caaqibah 'alladhena min qabli -him wa- la- daar al- 'aakhirah khayr li- 'alladhena ittaqaw 'a- fa- laa tacqilon |
| Pickthall | : | We sent not before thee (any messengers) save men whom We inspired from among the folk of the townships. Have they not travelled in the land and seen the nature of the consequence for those who were before them? And verily the abode of the Hereafter, for those who ward off (evil), is best. Have ye then no sense? |
| Asad | : | And [even] before thy time, We never sent [as Our apostles] any but [mortal] men, whom We inspired, [and whom We always chose] from among the people of the [very] communities [to whom the message was to be brought].105 Have, then, they [who reject this divine writ] never journeyed about the earth and beheld what happened in the end to those [deniers of the truth] who lived before them? - and [do they not know that] to those who are conscious of God the life in the hereafter is indeed better [than this world]? Will they not, then, use their reason? |
| Malik | : | All the Rasools that We sent before you, O Muhammad, were human beings, to whom We sent Our Revelations after choosing them from the people of their town. Have these unbelievers not traveled through the land and seen what was the end of those who passed away before them? From their destiny you should know that the home of the hereafter is better for those who are righteous. Why don't you understand? |
| Yusuf Ali | : | Nor did We send before thee (as Apostles) any but men whom We did inspire (men) living in human habitations. Do they not travel through the earth and see what was the end of those before them? But the home of the Hereafter is best for those who do right. Will ye not then understand? 1793 1794 |
Note - 105This is an answer to the objection often raised by
unbelievers that a mortal like themselves could not have
been entrusted with God's message to man.
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Note - 1793It was men that Allah sent as His Messengers to explain
Him to men. He did not send angels or gods. Into His
chosen men He breathed His inspiration, so that they
could see truer than other men. But they were men living
with men,-in men's habitations in town or country; not
recluses or cenobites, who had no personal experience of
men's affairs and could not be teachers of men in the
fullest sense. Their deeds tell their own tale.
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Note - 1794The righteous, the men of Allah, had, as in Joseph's
history, some evidence of Allah's providence in this very
world with all its imperfections as reflecting our
imperfections. But this world is of no real consequence
to them. Their home is in the Hereafter. Joseph's earthly
home was in Canaan; but he attained his glory elsewhere;
and his spiritual Home is in the great Society of the
Righteous (iii. 39).
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It was men that Allah sent as His Messengers to explain Him to men. He did not send angels or gods. Into His chosen men He breathed His inspiration, so that they could see truer than other men. But they were men living with men,-in men's habitations in town or country; not recluses or cenobites, who had no personal experience of men's affairs and could not be teachers of men in the fullest sense. Their deeds tell their own tale. |
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The righteous, the men of Allah, had, as in Joseph's history, some evidence of Allah's providence in this very world with all its imperfections as reflecting our imperfections. But this world is of no real consequence to them. Their home is in the Hereafter. Joseph's earthly home was in Canaan; but he attained his glory elsewhere; and his spiritual Home is in the great Society of the Righteous (iii. 39). |
