Surah 2. Al-Baqara, Ayah 208
| يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا ادْخُلُوا فِي السِّلْمِ كَافَّةً وَلَا تَتَّبِعُوا خُطُوَاتِ الشَّيْطَانِ ۚ إِنَّهُ لَكُمْ عَدُوٌّ مُبِينٌ |
| Transliteration | : | yaa 'ayyuhaa 'alladhena 'aamano udkhulo fe as- silm kaaffah wa- laa tattabico khut.uwaat ash- shayt.aan 'inna -hu la- -kum cadow muben |
| Pickthall | : | O ye who believe! Come, all of you, into submission (unto Him); and follow not the footsteps of the devil. Lo! he is an open enemy for you. |
| Asad | : | O you who have attained to faith! Surrender yourselves wholly unto God,191 and follow not Satan's footsteps, for, verily, he is your open foe. |
| Malik | : | O believers enter into Islam completely and do not follow the footsteps of Shaitan, surely he is your clear-cut enemy. |
| Yusuf Ali | : | O ye who believe! enter into Islam whole-heartedly; and follow not the footsteps of the Evil One; for he is to you an avowed enemy. |
Note - 191Lit., "enter wholly into self-surrender". Since
self-surrender to God is the basis of all true belief,
some of the greatest commentators (e.g., Zamakhshari,
Razi) hold that the address, "O you who have attained to
faith" cannot refer here to Muslims - a designation
which, throughout the Qur'an, literally means "those who
have surrendered themselves to God" - but must relate to
people who have not yet achieved such complete
self-surrender: that is, to the Jews and the Christians,
who do believe in most of the earlier revelations but do
not regard the message of the Qur'an as true. This
interpretation would seem to be borne out by the
subsequent passages.
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Lit., "enter wholly into self-surrender". Since self-surrender to God is the basis of all true belief, some of the greatest commentators (e.g., Zamakhshari, Razi) hold that the address, "O you who have attained to faith" cannot refer here to Muslims - a designation which, throughout the Qur'an, literally means "those who have surrendered themselves to God" - but must relate to people who have not yet achieved such complete self-surrender: that is, to the Jews and the Christians, who do believe in most of the earlier revelations but do not regard the message of the Qur'an as true. This interpretation would seem to be borne out by the subsequent passages. |
