Surah 16. An-Nahl, Ayah 9
| وَعَلَى اللَّهِ قَصْدُ السَّبِيلِ وَمِنْهَا جَائِرٌ ۚ وَلَوْ شَاءَ لَهَدَاكُمْ أَجْمَعِينَ |
| Asad | : | And [because He is your Creator,] it rests with God alone to show you the right path:7 yet there is [many a one] who swerves from it. However, had He so willed, He would have guided you all aright.8 |
| Malik | : | It is up to Allah to show the Right Way, when there exist some crooked ways. If Allah wanted He could have guided you all. |
| Pickthall | : | And Allah's is the direction of the way, and some (roads) go not straight. And had He willed He would have led you all aright. |
| Yusuf Ali | : | And unto Allah leads straight the Way but there are ways that turn aside: if Allah had willed He could have guided all of you. 2029 |
| Transliteration | : | wa- calaa 'allaah qas.d as- sabel wa- min -haa jaa'ir wa- law shaa'a la- hadaa -kum ajmacen |
Note - 7Lit., "upon God rests the [showing of the] goal of the
path" - i.e., the establishing of the goals of ethics and
morality implied in the concept of the "right path". In
further analysis of this phrase, the expression "it rests
upon God" ('ala 'llah) is similar in intent to the
statement in 6:12 and {54} that He "has willed upon
Himself the law of grace and mercy": in other words, God
invariably shows the right path to everyone who is
willing to follow it.
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Note - 8Since the concept of morality is linked with man's
God-given freedom of choice between good and evil, God
does not "impose" His guidance upon man but leaves it to
him to accept or reject it.
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Note - 2029Through material things "the Way" does always lead to
Allah. But some minds are so obsessed with material
things that they miss the pointers to the spiritual.
Allah could have forced all to the true Way, but in His
Will and Plan is the training of man's will, and that is
done by the Signs in nature and Revelation.
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Lit., "upon God rests the [showing of the] goal of the path" - i.e., the establishing of the goals of ethics and morality implied in the concept of the "right path". In further analysis of this phrase, the expression "it rests upon God" ('ala 'llah) is similar in intent to the statement in 6:12 and {54} that He "has willed upon Himself the law of grace and mercy": in other words, God invariably shows the right path to everyone who is willing to follow it. |
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Through material things "the Way" does always lead to Allah. But some minds are so obsessed with material things that they miss the pointers to the spiritual. Allah could have forced all to the true Way, but in His Will and Plan is the training of man's will, and that is done by the Signs in nature and Revelation. |
