Surah 16. An-Nahl, Ayah 70
| وَاللَّهُ خَلَقَكُمْ ثُمَّ يَتَوَفَّاكُمْ ۚ وَمِنْكُمْ مَنْ يُرَدُّ إِلَىٰ أَرْذَلِ الْعُمُرِ لِكَيْ لَا يَعْلَمَ بَعْدَ عِلْمٍ شَيْئًا ۚ إِنَّ اللَّهَ عَلِيمٌ قَدِيرٌ |
| Transliteration | : | wa- 'allaah khalaqa -kum thumma yatawaffaa -kum wa- min -kum man yuradd 'ilaa ardhal al- cumur li- kay laa yaclam bacda cilm shay'(an) 'inna 'allaah calem qader |
| Pickthall | : | And Allah createth you, then causeth you to die, and among you is he who is brought back to the most abject stage of life, so that be knoweth nothing after (having had) knowledge. Lo ! Allah is Knower, Powerful. |
| Asad | : | AND GOD has created you, and in time will cause you to die; and many a one of you is reduced in old age to a most abject state, ceasing to know anything of what he once knew so well.79 Verily, God is all-knowing, infinite in His power! |
| Malik | : | Allah is the One Who created you, then He causes you to die; there are some amongst you whose lives are prolonged to an abject old age so that they know nothing after having known much. In fact Allah is the All-Knowing , Almighty. |
| Yusuf Ali | : | It is Allah who creates you and takes your souls at death; and of you there are some who are sent back to a feeble age so that they know nothing after having known (much): for Allah is All-Knowing All-Powerful. 2100 2101 |
Note - 79Lit., "is reduced to a most abject age, so that he knows
nothing after [having had] knowledge": alluding to the
organic curve of man's growth, his acquisition of bodily
strength, intelligence and experience, followed by
gradual decay and, in some cases, the utter helplessness
of senility, comparable to the helplessness of a new-born
child.
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Note - 2100Besides the mystery and beauty of the many processes
going on in the working of Allah's Creation, there is the
wonderful life of man himself on this earth; how he is
created as a child; how he grows in intelligence and
knowledge; and how his soul is taken back and his body
suffers dissolution. In some cases he lives so long that
he falls into a feeble old age like a second childhood;
he forgets what he learnt and seems almost to go back in
Time. Is not all this wonderful, and evidence of the
Knowledge and Power of Allah?
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Note - 2101Our attention having been called to the remarkable
transformations in life and nature, by which the
Knowledge and Power of Allah work out His beneficient
Plan for His creatures, we are reminded that man at best
is but a feeble creature, but for the grace of Allah. We
then pass on in the next Section to the differences in
the gifts which men themselves enjoy, distinguishing them
into so many categories. How much greater is the
difference between the created things and their Creator?
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Lit., "is reduced to a most abject age, so that he knows nothing after [having had] knowledge": alluding to the organic curve of man's growth, his acquisition of bodily strength, intelligence and experience, followed by gradual decay and, in some cases, the utter helplessness of senility, comparable to the helplessness of a new-born child. |
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Besides the mystery and beauty of the many processes going on in the working of Allah's Creation, there is the wonderful life of man himself on this earth; how he is created as a child; how he grows in intelligence and knowledge; and how his soul is taken back and his body suffers dissolution. In some cases he lives so long that he falls into a feeble old age like a second childhood; he forgets what he learnt and seems almost to go back in Time. Is not all this wonderful, and evidence of the Knowledge and Power of Allah? |
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Our attention having been called to the remarkable transformations in life and nature, by which the Knowledge and Power of Allah work out His beneficient Plan for His creatures, we are reminded that man at best is but a feeble creature, but for the grace of Allah. We then pass on in the next Section to the differences in the gifts which men themselves enjoy, distinguishing them into so many categories. How much greater is the difference between the created things and their Creator? |
