Surah 27. An-Naml, Ayah 66
| بَلِ ادَّارَكَ عِلْمُهُمْ فِي الْآخِرَةِ ۚ بَلْ هُمْ فِي شَكٍّ مِنْهَا ۖ بَلْ هُمْ مِنْهَا عَمُونَ |
| Transliteration | : | bal iddaaraka cilm -hum fe al- 'aakhirah bal hum fe shakk min -haa bal hum min -haa camon |
| Pickthall | : | Nay, but doth their knowledge reach to the Hereafter? Nay, for they are in doubt concerning it. Nay, for they cannot see it. |
| Asad | : | nay, their knowledge of the life to come stops short of the truth:64 nay, they are [often] in doubt as to its reality: nay, they are blind to it.65 |
| Malik | : | Their knowledge does not grasp the Hereafter; rather they are in doubt about it; nay, they are blind concerning it! |
| Yusuf Ali | : | Still less can their knowledge comprehend the Hereafter: nay they are in doubt and uncertainty thereanent; nay they are blind thereunto! 3304 |
Note - 64I.e., they cannot truly visualize the hereafter because
its reality is beyond anything that man may experience in
this world: and this, it cannot be stressed often enough,
is an indirect explanation of the reason why all Qur'anic
references to the conditions, good or bad, of man's life
after death are of necessity expressed in purely
allegorical terms.
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Note - 65I.e., blind to its logical necessity within God's plan of
creation. For, it is only on the premise of a life after
death that the concept of man's moral responsibility and,
hence, of God's ultimate judgment can have any meaning;
and if there is no moral responsibility, there can be no
question of a preceding moral choice; and if the absence
of choice is taken for granted, all differentiation
between right and wrong becomes utterly meaningless as
well.
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Note - 3304The Unbelievers are generally materialists, who cannot go
beyond the evidence of their physical senses. As to a
spiritual vision of the future, their physical senses
would only leave them in doubt and uncertainty, while
their rejection of the spiritual light makes them blind
altogether to the next world.
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I.e., they cannot truly visualize the hereafter because its reality is beyond anything that man may experience in this world: and this, it cannot be stressed often enough, is an indirect explanation of the reason why all Qur'anic references to the conditions, good or bad, of man's life after death are of necessity expressed in purely allegorical terms. |
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I.e., blind to its logical necessity within God's plan of creation. For, it is only on the premise of a life after death that the concept of man's moral responsibility and, hence, of God's ultimate judgment can have any meaning; and if there is no moral responsibility, there can be no question of a preceding moral choice; and if the absence of choice is taken for granted, all differentiation between right and wrong becomes utterly meaningless as well. |
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The Unbelievers are generally materialists, who cannot go beyond the evidence of their physical senses. As to a spiritual vision of the future, their physical senses would only leave them in doubt and uncertainty, while their rejection of the spiritual light makes them blind altogether to the next world. |
