Surah 4. An-Nisaa, Ayah 159
| وَإِنْ مِنْ أَهْلِ الْكِتَابِ إِلَّا لَيُؤْمِنَنَّ بِهِ قَبْلَ مَوْتِهِ ۖ وَيَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ يَكُونُ عَلَيْهِمْ شَهِيدًا |
| Transliteration | : | wa- 'in min 'ahl al- kitaab 'illaa la- yu'minanna bi- -hi qabla mawt -hi wa- yawm al- qiyaamah yakon calay -him shahed(an) |
| Pickthall | : | There is not one of the People of the Scripture but will believe in him before his death, and on the Day of Resurrection he will be a witness against them |
| Asad | : | Yet there is not one of the followers of earlier revelation who does not, at the moment of his death, grasp the truth about Jesus;173 and on the Day of Resurrection he [himself] shall bear witness to the truth against them. |
| Malik | : | There is none of the People of the Book but will believe in this fact before his death; and on the Day of Resurrection Jesus will bear witness against them. |
| Yusuf Ali | : | And there is none of the People of the Book but must believe in him before his death; and on the Day of Judgment He will be a witness against them. 665 666 |
Note - 173Lit., "who does not believe in him before his death".
According to this verse, all believing Jews and
Christians realize at the moment of their death that
Jesus was truly a prophet of God - having been neither an
impostor nor "the son of God" (Zamakhshari).
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Note - 665Before his death: Interpreters are not agreed as to the
exact meaning. Those who hold that Jesus did not die
refer the pronoun "his" to Jesus. They say that Jesus is
still living in the body and that he will appear just
before the Final Day, after the coming of the Mahdi, when
the world will be purified of sin and unbelief. There
will be a final death before the final Resurrection, but
all will have believed before that final death. Others
think that "his" is better referred to "none of the
People of the Book", and that the emphatic form "must
believe" (la-yu' minanna) denotes more a question of duty
than of fact.
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Note - 666Cf. iv. 41
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Before his death: Interpreters are not agreed as to the exact meaning. Those who hold that Jesus did not die refer the pronoun "his" to Jesus. They say that Jesus is still living in the body and that he will appear just before the Final Day, after the coming of the Mahdi, when the world will be purified of sin and unbelief. There will be a final death before the final Resurrection, but all will have believed before that final death. Others think that "his" is better referred to "none of the People of the Book", and that the emphatic form "must believe" (la-yu' minanna) denotes more a question of duty than of fact. |
