Surah 43. Az-Zukhruf, Ayah 15
| وَجَعَلُوا لَهُ مِنْ عِبَادِهِ جُزْءًا ۚ إِنَّ الْإِنْسَانَ لَكَفُورٌ مُبِينٌ |
| Transliteration | : | wa- jacalo la- -hu min cibaad -hi juz'(an) 'inna al- 'insaan la- kafor muben |
| Pickthall | : | And they allot to Him a portion of His bondmen! Lo! man is verily a mere ingrate. |
| Asad | : | AND YET,12 they attribute to Him offspring from among some of the beings created by Him!13 Verily,most obviously bereft of all gratitude is man! |
| Malik | : | Yet inspite of recognizing all this, they have made some of His servants to be a part of Him! Surely mankind is clearly ungrateful. |
| Yusuf Ali | : | Yet they attribute to some of His servants a share with Him (in His godhead)! Truly is man a blasphemous ingrate avowed! 4620 |
Note - 12I.e., despite the fact that most people readily admit
that God has created all that exists (verse {9} above),
some of them tend to forget His uniqueness.
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Note - 13Lit., "attribute to Him a part out of [some of] His
creatures ('ibad)": cf. 6:100 and the corresponding
notes. The noun juz' (lit., "part") evidently denotes
here "a part of Himself", as implied in the concept of
"offspring"; hence my rendering. If, on the other hand,
juz' is understood in its literal sense, the above
sentence could have (as Razi assumes) a more general
meaning, namely, "they attribute a part of His divinity
to some of the beings created by Him". However, in view
of the sequence, which clearly refers to the blasphemous
attribution of "offspring" to God, my rendering seems to
be preferable.
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Note - 4620As a contrast to the men of true understanding are the
ungrateful blasphemous creatures, who offer a share to
others besides Allah! They imagine sons and daughters to
Allah, and forget the true lesson of the whole of
Creation, which points to the Unity of Allah. This theme
is further developed in the following Section.
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I.e., despite the fact that most people readily admit that God has created all that exists (verse {9} above), some of them tend to forget His uniqueness. |
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Lit., "attribute to Him a part out of [some of] His creatures ('ibad)": cf. 6:100 and the corresponding notes. The noun juz' (lit., "part") evidently denotes here "a part of Himself", as implied in the concept of "offspring"; hence my rendering. If, on the other hand, juz' is understood in its literal sense, the above sentence could have (as Razi assumes) a more general meaning, namely, "they attribute a part of His divinity to some of the beings created by Him". However, in view of the sequence, which clearly refers to the blasphemous attribution of "offspring" to God, my rendering seems to be preferable. |
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As a contrast to the men of true understanding are the ungrateful blasphemous creatures, who offer a share to others besides Allah! They imagine sons and daughters to Allah, and forget the true lesson of the whole of Creation, which points to the Unity of Allah. This theme is further developed in the following Section. |
