Surah 28. Al-Qasas, Ayah 75
| وَنَزَعْنَا مِنْ كُلِّ أُمَّةٍ شَهِيدًا فَقُلْنَا هَاتُوا بُرْهَانَكُمْ فَعَلِمُوا أَنَّ الْحَقَّ لِلَّهِ وَضَلَّ عَنْهُمْ مَا كَانُوا يَفْتَرُونَ |
| Transliteration | : | wa- nazacnaa min kull 'ummah shahed(an) fa- qulnaa haato burhaan -kum fa- calimo 'anna al- h.aqq li- 'allaah wa- d.alla can -hum maa kaano yaftaron |
| Pickthall | : | And We shall take out from every nation a witness and We shall say: Bring your proof. Then they will know that Allah hath the Truth, and all that they invented will have failed them. |
| Asad | : | And [they will remain silent: for by then] We will have called forth witnesses from within every community,80 and will have said [unto the sinners]: "Produce an evidence for what you have been claiminng!"81 And so they will come to understand that all truth is God's [alone]:82 and all their false imagery will have forsaken them.83 |
| Malik | : | And We shall bring forth a witness from every nation and ask: "Bring your proof about other deities besides Me." Then they shall come to know that in reality there is only One God, Allah, and gods of their own inventions have left them in the lurch." |
| Yusuf Ali | : | And from each people shall We draw a witness and We shall say: "Produce your Proof": then shall they know that the Truth is in Allah (alone) and the (lies) which they invented will leave them in the lurch." 3402 3403 |
Note - 80I.e., the prophets who had appeared at various stages of
man's history, and who will now bear witness that they
had duly conveyed God's message to the people for whom it
was meant.
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Note - 81Lit., "Produce your evidence" - i.e., for the possibility
of anyone or anything having a share in God's divinity.
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Note - 82I.e., that He is the Ultimate Reality, and that whatever
is or could be is an outcome of His will alone.
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Note - 83For the meaning of the phrase ma kanu yaftarun (lit.,
"all that they were wont to invent" - rendered by me here
as well as in 6:24, 7:53, 10:30, 11:21 and
16:87 as "all their false imagery"), see surah {11},
note [42]; also note [15] on 6:22. A specific instance
of such "false imagery" - the futility of man's relying
on his own wealth and worldly power - is illustrated in
the immediately following legend of Qarun (see next
note).
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Note - 3402Cf. iv. 41. The Prophet from each People or Nation will
bear testimony that he preached the true gospel of Unity,
and the People who rejected him will be asked to show the
Proof or authority on which they rejected him: Cf. ii.
111.
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Note - 3403In that new world, all the fancies or lies, which had
been invented in this world of reflected or relative
truths mixed with illusions, will have vanished, and left
those in the lurch who relied on them. Cf. vi. 24.
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I.e., the prophets who had appeared at various stages of man's history, and who will now bear witness that they had duly conveyed God's message to the people for whom it was meant. |
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Lit., "Produce your evidence" - i.e., for the possibility of anyone or anything having a share in God's divinity. |
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I.e., that He is the Ultimate Reality, and that whatever is or could be is an outcome of His will alone. |
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For the meaning of the phrase ma kanu yaftarun (lit., "all that they were wont to invent" - rendered by me here as well as in 6:24, 7:53, 10:30, 11:21 and 16:87 as "all their false imagery"), see surah {11}, note [42]; also note [15] on 6:22. A specific instance of such "false imagery" - the futility of man's relying on his own wealth and worldly power - is illustrated in the immediately following legend of Qarun (see next note). |
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Cf. iv. 41. The Prophet from each People or Nation will bear testimony that he preached the true gospel of Unity, and the People who rejected him will be asked to show the Proof or authority on which they rejected him: Cf. ii. 111. |
