Surah 21. Al-Anbiyaa, Ayah 93
| وَتَقَطَّعُوا أَمْرَهُمْ بَيْنَهُمْ ۖ كُلٌّ إِلَيْنَا رَاجِعُونَ |
| Transliteration | : | wa- taqat.t.aco 'amr -hum bayna -hum kull 'ilay -naa raajicon |
| Pickthall | : | And they have broken their religion (into fragments) among them, (yet) all are returning unto Us. |
| Asad | : | But men have torn their unity wide asunder,90 [forgetting that] unto Us they all are bound to return. |
| Malik | : | But the people have divided their religion into sects between them- to Us they shall all return. |
| Yusuf Ali | : | But (later generations) cut off their affair (of unity) one from another: (yet) will they all return to Us. 2750 |
Note - 90This is the meaning of the idiomatic phrase, taqatta'u
amrahum baynahum. As Zamakhshari points out, the sudden
turn of the discourse from the second person plural to
the third person is indicative of God's severe
disapproval-His "turning away", as it were, from those
who are or were guilty of breaking the believers' unity.
(See also 23:53 and the corresponding note [30].)
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Note - 2750Allah's Message was and ever is one; and His Messengers
treated it as one. It is people of narrower views who
come later and trade on the earlier names, that break up
the Message and the Brotherhood into jarring camps and
sects.
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This is the meaning of the idiomatic phrase, taqatta'u amrahum baynahum. As Zamakhshari points out, the sudden turn of the discourse from the second person plural to the third person is indicative of God's severe disapproval-His "turning away", as it were, from those who are or were guilty of breaking the believers' unity. (See also 23:53 and the corresponding note [30].) |
