Surah 58. Al-Mujadila, Ayah 22
| لَا تَجِدُ قَوْمًا يُؤْمِنُونَ بِاللَّهِ وَالْيَوْمِ الْآخِرِ يُوَادُّونَ مَنْ حَادَّ اللَّهَ وَرَسُولَهُ وَلَوْ كَانُوا آبَاءَهُمْ أَوْ أَبْنَاءَهُمْ أَوْ إِخْوَانَهُمْ أَوْ عَشِيرَتَهُمْ ۚ أُولَٰئِكَ كَتَبَ فِي قُلُوبِهِمُ الْإِيمَانَ وَأَيَّدَهُمْ بِرُوحٍ مِنْهُ ۖ وَيُدْخِلُهُمْ جَنَّاتٍ تَجْرِي مِنْ تَحْتِهَا الْأَنْهَارُ خَالِدِينَ فِيهَا ۚ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُمْ وَرَضُوا عَنْهُ ۚ أُولَٰئِكَ حِزْبُ اللَّهِ ۚ أَلَا إِنَّ حِزْبَ اللَّهِ هُمُ الْمُفْلِحُونَ |
| Transliteration | : | laa tajid qawm(an) yu'minon bi- 'allaah wa- al- yawm al- 'aakhir yuwaaddon man h.aadda 'allaah wa- rasol -hu wa- law kaano 'aabaa' -hum 'aw abnaa' -hum 'aw 'ikhwaan -hum 'aw casherah -hum 'olaa'ika kataba fe qulob -him al- 'emaan wa- 'ayyada -hum bi- roh. min -hu wa- yudkhil -hum jannaat tajre min tah.ta -haa al- anhaar khaaliden fe -haa rad.iya 'allaah can -hum wa- rad.o can -hu 'olaa'ika h.izb 'allaah 'a-laa 'inna h.izb 'allaah hum al- muflih.on |
| Pickthall | : | Thou wilt not find folk who believe in Allah and the Last Day loving those who oppose Allah and His messenger: even though they be their fathers or, their sons or their brethren or their clan. As for such, He hath written faith upon their hearts and hath strengthened them with a Spirit from Him, and He will bring them into Gardens underneath which rivers flow, wherein they will abide. Allah is well pleased with them, and they are well pleased with Him. They are Allah's party. Lo! is it not Allah's party who are the successful? |
| Asad | : | Thou canst not find people who [truly] believe in God and the Last Day and [at the same time] love anyone who contends against God and His Apostle - even though they be their fathers, or their sons, or their brothers, or [others of] their kindred.29 [As for the true believers,] it is they in whose hearts He has inscribed faith, and whom He has strengthened with inspiration from Himself,30 and whom [in time] He will admit into gardens through which running waters flow, therein to abide. Well-pleased is God with them, and well-pleased are they with Him. They are God's partisans: oh, verily, it is they, the partisans of God, who shall attain to a happy state! |
| Malik | : | You will never find any people who believe in Allah and the last Day on friendly terms with those who oppose Allah and His Rasool, even though they be their fathers, their sons, their brothers or their relatives. It is they in whose hearts Allah has inscribed faith and has strengthened them with a spirit of His own. He will admit them to gardens beneath which rivers flow, to live therein forever. Allah will be well pleased with them, and they will be well pleased with Him. They are the party of Allah. Beware! Surely it is the party of Allah that will be successful. |
| Yusuf Ali | : | Thou wilt not find any people who believe in Allah and the Last Day loving those who resist Allah and His Apostle even though they were their fathers or their sons or their brothers or their kindred. For such He has written Faith in their hearts and strengthened them with a spirit from Himself. And He will admit them to Gardens beneath which Rivers flow to dwell therein (for ever). Allah will be well pleased with them and they with Him. They are the Party of Allah. Truly it is the Party of Allah that will achieve Felicity. 5363 5364 5365 5366 5367 |
Note - 29The operative phrase of this passage is contained in the
words, "anyone who contends against (man hadda) God and
His Apostle": i.e., anyone who is engaged in active
hostility against God's message and the person or the
teachings of His Apostle. As regards relations with
non-believers who are not actively hostile to Islam, the
Qur'an explicitly permits and implicitly ordains in many
places (e.g., in {60:8-9}) kindness and friendliness
towards them.
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Note - 30For my rendering of ruh as "inspiration" or,
occasionally, as "divine inspiration", see note [2] on
16:2. As pointed out by Zamakhshari, the pronominal
suffix in minhu may relate either to God - as in my
rendering - or to the believers' faith, in which latter
case the phrase could be rendered as "strengthened with
inspiration [flowing] therefrom".
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Note - 5363If any one believes in Allah and His goodness and
justice, and in the Hereafter, in which all true values
will be restored he will never love evil or wrong-doing
or rebellion against Allah, even if these things are
found in his nearest kith and kin.
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Note - 5364Faith in Allah is indelibly written on the tablets of
their hearts and they can never be false to Allah.
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Note - 5365Cf. ii. 87 and 253, where it is said that Allah
strengthened the Prophet Jesus with the holy spirit. Here
we learn that all good and righteous men are strengthened
by Allah. If anything, the phrase used here is stronger:
"a spirit from Himself". Whenever any one offers his
heart in faith and purity to Allah, Allah accepts it,
engraves that Faith on the seeker's heart, and further
fortifies him with his help which we can no more define
adequately than we can define in human language the
nature and attributes of Allah.
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Note - 5366Again we have the doctrine of Allah's Good Pleasure as
the highest goal of man, the spiritual heaven which he
achieves by a life of purity and faith. He not only
attains Allah's Good Pleasure as the crown of his
felicity, but his own nature is so far transformed to the
pattern of Allah's original creation that his own good
pleasure is in nothing but in Allah's Good Pleasure. The
mutual good pleasure shows the heights to which man can
attain.
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Note - 5367This is in antithesis to the Party of the Satan,
mentioned in verse 19 above. The Party of Evil will
perish, but while it has its run in the scheme of the
present world, the Party of Truth and Reality may be
rightly called the Party of Allah, even though all
Creation is Allah's in another sense.
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The operative phrase of this passage is contained in the words, "anyone who contends against (man hadda) God and His Apostle": i.e., anyone who is engaged in active hostility against God's message and the person or the teachings of His Apostle. As regards relations with non-believers who are not actively hostile to Islam, the Qur'an explicitly permits and implicitly ordains in many places (e.g., in {60:8-9}) kindness and friendliness towards them. |
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For my rendering of ruh as "inspiration" or, occasionally, as "divine inspiration", see note [2] on 16:2. As pointed out by Zamakhshari, the pronominal suffix in minhu may relate either to God - as in my rendering - or to the believers' faith, in which latter case the phrase could be rendered as "strengthened with inspiration [flowing] therefrom". |
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If any one believes in Allah and His goodness and justice, and in the Hereafter, in which all true values will be restored he will never love evil or wrong-doing or rebellion against Allah, even if these things are found in his nearest kith and kin. |
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Faith in Allah is indelibly written on the tablets of their hearts and they can never be false to Allah. |
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Cf. ii. 87 and 253, where it is said that Allah strengthened the Prophet Jesus with the holy spirit. Here we learn that all good and righteous men are strengthened by Allah. If anything, the phrase used here is stronger: "a spirit from Himself". Whenever any one offers his heart in faith and purity to Allah, Allah accepts it, engraves that Faith on the seeker's heart, and further fortifies him with his help which we can no more define adequately than we can define in human language the nature and attributes of Allah. |
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Again we have the doctrine of Allah's Good Pleasure as the highest goal of man, the spiritual heaven which he achieves by a life of purity and faith. He not only attains Allah's Good Pleasure as the crown of his felicity, but his own nature is so far transformed to the pattern of Allah's original creation that his own good pleasure is in nothing but in Allah's Good Pleasure. The mutual good pleasure shows the heights to which man can attain. |
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This is in antithesis to the Party of the Satan, mentioned in verse 19 above. The Party of Evil will perish, but while it has its run in the scheme of the present world, the Party of Truth and Reality may be rightly called the Party of Allah, even though all Creation is Allah's in another sense. |
