Surah 21. Al-Anbiyaa, Ayah 24
| أَمِ اتَّخَذُوا مِنْ دُونِهِ آلِهَةً ۖ قُلْ هَاتُوا بُرْهَانَكُمْ ۖ هَٰذَا ذِكْرُ مَنْ مَعِيَ وَذِكْرُ مَنْ قَبْلِي ۗ بَلْ أَكْثَرُهُمْ لَا يَعْلَمُونَ الْحَقَّ ۖ فَهُمْ مُعْرِضُونَ |
| Transliteration | : | 'am ittakhadho min doni -hi 'aalihah qul haato burhaan -kum haadhaa dhikr man maci -ya wa- dhikr man qabli -y bal akthar -hum laa yaclamon al- h.aqq fa- hum mucrid.on |
| Pickthall | : | Or have they chosen other gods beside Him? Say: Bring your proof (of their godhead). This is the Reminder of those with me and those before me, but most of them know not the Truth and so they are averse. |
| Asad | : | and yet,29 they choose to worship [imaginary] deities instead of Him!Say [O Prophet]: "Produce an evidence for what you are claiming:30 this is a reminder [unceasingly voiced] by those who are with me, just as it was a reminder [voiced] by those who came before me."31 But nay, most of them do not know the truth, and so they stubbornly turn away [from it]32 |
| Malik | : | Even then, have they taken other deities for worship besides Him? Ask them: "Show us your proof: here is this reminder (Al-Qur'an) for the people of my time and it also contains the reminder of those before me." But most of them have no knowledge of Reality, and that is why they have turned away. |
| Yusuf Ali | : | Or have they taken for worship (other) gods besides Him? Say "Bring your convincing proof: this is the Message of those with me and the Message of those before me." But most of them know not the Truth and so turn away. 2684 2685 |
Note - 29See note [24] above.
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Note - 30Lit., "produce your evidence", i.e., for the existence of
deities other than God, as well as for the intellectual
and moral justification of worshipping anything but Him.
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Note - 31I.e., the earlier prophets, the purport of whose messages
was always the stress on the oneness of God.
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Note - 32In other words, most people's obstinate refusal to
consider a reasonable proposition on its merits is often
due to no more than the simple fact that it is not
familiar to them.
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Note - 2684See above. n. 2682, where two kinds of false worship are
noted. Now we are warned against a third danger, the
worship of false gods of any sort. Pagan man is prolific
of creating abstract images for worship, including Self
or abstract Intelligence or Power. In verse 26 below is
mentioned a fourth kind of false worship, which imagines
that Allah begets sons or daughters.
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Note - 2685This verse should be read with the next. All reason
revolts against the idea of conflicting gods, and points
to Unity in Creation and Unity in Godhead. This is not
only the Message of Islam ("those with me") but the
message of all prophets who came before the holy Prophet
Muhammad ("those before me"), and the line of prophets
was closed with him. The Message given to every prophet
in all ages was that of Unity as the fundamental basis of
Order and Design in the world, material, moral, and
spiritual.
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Lit., "produce your evidence", i.e., for the existence of deities other than God, as well as for the intellectual and moral justification of worshipping anything but Him. |
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I.e., the earlier prophets, the purport of whose messages was always the stress on the oneness of God. |
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See above. n. 2682, where two kinds of false worship are noted. Now we are warned against a third danger, the worship of false gods of any sort. Pagan man is prolific of creating abstract images for worship, including Self or abstract Intelligence or Power. In verse 26 below is mentioned a fourth kind of false worship, which imagines that Allah begets sons or daughters. |
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This verse should be read with the next. All reason revolts against the idea of conflicting gods, and points to Unity in Creation and Unity in Godhead. This is not only the Message of Islam ("those with me") but the message of all prophets who came before the holy Prophet Muhammad ("those before me"), and the line of prophets was closed with him. The Message given to every prophet in all ages was that of Unity as the fundamental basis of Order and Design in the world, material, moral, and spiritual. |
