Surah Al-An'aam Recitation, Translation, and Tafseer - The Holy Quran

6:41

بَلْ اِیَّاهُ تَدْعُوْنَ فَیَكْشِفُ مَا تَدْعُوْنَ اِلَیْهِ اِنْ شَآءَ وَ تَنْسَوْنَ مَا تُشْرِكُوْنَ۠(۴۱)

No: You will call to Him alone; and He will, if He please, remove (the distress) for which you had called Him; and forget those you associate as compeers (with Him)

No; upon Him you will call, and He will remove that for which you call upon Him if He Will, and you will forget that you associate with Him.

6:42

وَ لَقَدْ اَرْسَلْنَاۤ اِلٰۤى اُمَمٍ مِّنْ قَبْلِكَ فَاَخَذْنٰهُمْ بِالْبَاْسَآءِ وَ الضَّرَّآءِ لَعَلَّهُمْ یَتَضَرَّعُوْنَ(۴۲)

We have indeed sent (apostles) to many a people before you, and inflicted upon them hardships and afflictions so that they might submit.

Indeed We sent to nations before thee, and We seized them with misery and hardship that haply they might be humble;

6:43

فَلَوْ لَاۤ اِذْ جَآءَهُمْ بَاْسُنَا تَضَرَّعُوْا وَ لٰكِنْ قَسَتْ قُلُوْبُهُمْ وَ زَیَّنَ لَهُمُ الشَّیْطٰنُ مَا كَانُوْا یَعْمَلُوْنَ(۴۳)

Then why did they not submit when Our punishment came upon them? But their hearts were hardened, and Satan made things they were doing look attractive to them.

if only, when Our might came upon them, they had been humble! But their hearts were hard, and Satan decked out fair to them what they were doing.

6:44

فَلَمَّا نَسُوْا مَا ذُكِّرُوْا بِهٖ فَتَحْنَا عَلَیْهِمْ اَبْوَابَ كُلِّ شَیْءٍؕ-حَتّٰۤى اِذَا فَرِحُوْا بِمَاۤ اُوْتُوْۤا اَخَذْنٰهُمْ بَغْتَةً فَاِذَا هُمْ مُّبْلِسُوْنَ(۴۴)

When they had become oblivious of what they were warned, We opened wide the gates of everything to them; yet as they rejoiced at what they were given, We caught them unawares, and they were filled with despair.

So, when they forgot what they were reminded of; We opened unto them the gates of everything until; when they rejoiced in what they were given, We seized them suddenly, and behold, they were sore confounded.

6:45

فَقُطِعَ دَابِرُ الْقَوْمِ الَّذِیْنَ ظَلَمُوْاؕ-وَ الْحَمْدُ لِلّٰهِ رَبِّ الْعٰلَمِیْنَ(۴۵)

Thus were the wicked people rooted out of existence to the last. All praise be to God, the Lord of all the worlds.

So the last remnant of the people who did evil was cut off. Praise belongs to God the Lord of all Being.

6:46

قُلْ اَرَءَیْتُمْ اِنْ اَخَذَ اللّٰهُ سَمْعَكُمْ وَ اَبْصَارَكُمْ وَ خَتَمَ عَلٰى قُلُوْبِكُمْ مَّنْ اِلٰهٌ غَیْرُ اللّٰهِ یَاْتِیْكُمْ بِهٖؕ-اُنْظُرْ كَیْفَ نُصَرِّفُ الْاٰیٰتِ ثُمَّ هُمْ یَصْدِفُوْنَ(۴۶)

Say: "Imagine if God takes away your hearing and sight, and sets a seal on your hearts, what deity other than God will restore them to you?" See how We inflect Our signs: Even then they turn aside.

Say: 'What think you? If God seizes your hearing and sight, and sets a seal upon your hearts, who is a god other than God to give it back to you?' Behold how We turn about the signs! Yet thereafter they are turning away.

6:47

قُلْ اَرَءَیْتَكُمْ اِنْ اَتٰىكُمْ عَذَابُ اللّٰهِ بَغْتَةً اَوْ جَهْرَةً هَلْ یُهْلَكُ اِلَّا الْقَوْمُ الظّٰلِمُوْنَ(۴۷)

Say: "Imagine if the punishment of God were to come unawares, or openly, who will perish but the evil-doers?"

Say: 'What think you? If God's chastisement comes upon you, suddenly or openly, shall any be destroyed, except the people of the evildoers?'

6:48

وَ مَا نُرْسِلُ الْمُرْسَلِیْنَ اِلَّا مُبَشِّرِیْنَ وَ مُنْذِرِیْنَۚ-فَمَنْ اٰمَنَ وَ اَصْلَحَ فَلَا خَوْفٌ عَلَیْهِمْ وَ لَا هُمْ یَحْزَنُوْنَ(۴۸)

We do not send apostles but to give good tidings and to warn. Then those who believe or reform will have neither fear nor regret.

We do not send the Envoys, except good tidings to bear, and warning; whoever believes and makes amends -- no fear shall be on them, neither shall they sorrow.

6:49

وَ الَّذِیْنَ كَذَّبُوْا بِاٰیٰتِنَا یَمَسُّهُمُ الْعَذَابُ بِمَا كَانُوْا یَفْسُقُوْنَ(۴۹)

But those who deny Our messages will be seized by nemesis for being disobedient.

But those who cry lies to Our signs, them the chastisement shall visit, for that they were ungodly.

6:50

قُلْ لَّاۤ اَقُوْلُ لَكُمْ عِنْدِیْ خَزَآىٕنُ اللّٰهِ وَ لَاۤ اَعْلَمُ الْغَیْبَ وَ لَاۤ اَقُوْلُ لَكُمْ اِنِّیْ مَلَكٌۚ-اِنْ اَتَّبِـعُ اِلَّا مَا یُوْحٰۤى اِلَیَّؕ-قُلْ هَلْ یَسْتَوِی الْاَعْمٰى وَ الْبَصِیْرُؕ-اَفَلَا تَتَفَكَّرُوْنَ۠(۵۰)

Tell them: "I do not say that I possess the treasures of God, or have knowledge of the Unknown, or that I am an angel. I only follow what is sent down to me." And say: "How can a blind man and a man who can see, be alike? Will you not reflect?"

Say: 'I do not say to you, "I possess the treasuries of God"; I know not the Unseen. And I say not to you, "I am an angel"; I only follow what is revealed to me. Say: 'Are the blind and the seeing man equal? Will you not reflect?'

6:51

وَ اَنْذِرْ بِهِ الَّذِیْنَ یَخَافُوْنَ اَنْ یُّحْشَرُوْۤا اِلٰى رَبِّهِمْ لَیْسَ لَهُمْ مِّنْ دُوْنِهٖ وَلِیٌّ وَّ لَا شَفِیْعٌ لَّعَلَّهُمْ یَتَّقُوْنَ(۵۱)

Warn those who fear, through this (Qur´an), that they will be gathered before their Lord, and they will have none to protect or intercede for them apart from Him. They may haply take heed for themselves.

And warn therewith those who fear they shall be mustered to their Lord; they have, apart from God, no protector and no intercessor; haply they will be godfearing.

6:52

وَ لَا تَطْرُدِ الَّذِیْنَ یَدْعُوْنَ رَبَّهُمْ بِالْغَدٰوةِ وَ الْعَشِیِّ یُرِیْدُوْنَ وَجْهَهٗؕ-مَا عَلَیْكَ مِنْ حِسَابِهِمْ مِّنْ شَیْءٍ وَّ مَا مِنْ حِسَابِكَ عَلَیْهِمْ مِّنْ شَیْءٍ فَتَطْرُدَهُمْ فَتَكُوْنَ مِنَ الظّٰلِمِیْنَ(۵۲)

Do not turn away those who supplicate their Lord morning and evening, seeking His magnificence. You are not accountable for them in the least, nor they for you at all. If you drive them away you will only be unjust.

And do not drive away those who call upon their Lord at morning and evening desiring His countenance; nothing of their account falls upon thee, and nothing of thy account falls upon them, that thou shouldst drive them away, and so become one of the evildoers.

6:53

وَ كَذٰلِكَ فَتَنَّا بَعْضَهُمْ بِبَعْضٍ لِّیَقُوْلُوْۤا اَهٰۤؤُلَآءِ مَنَّ اللّٰهُ عَلَیْهِمْ مِّنْۢ بَیْنِنَاؕ-اَلَیْسَ اللّٰهُ بِاَعْلَمَ بِالشّٰكِرِیْنَ(۵۳)

Thus do We try men through one another so that they may ask: "Are these the ones of all of us who have been favoured by God?" Does God not know who are the grateful?

Even so We have tried some of them by others that they may say, Are these the ones God has been gracious to among us?' Knows not God very well the thankful?

6:54

وَ اِذَا جَآءَكَ الَّذِیْنَ یُؤْمِنُوْنَ بِاٰیٰتِنَا فَقُلْ سَلٰمٌ عَلَیْكُمْ كَتَبَ رَبُّكُمْ عَلٰى نَفْسِهِ الرَّحْمَةَۙ-اَنَّهٗ مَنْ عَمِلَ مِنْكُمْ سُوْٓءًۢا بِجَهَالَةٍ ثُمَّ تَابَ مِنْۢ بَعْدِهٖ وَ اَصْلَحَ فَاَنَّهٗ غَفُوْرٌ رَّحِیْمٌ(۵۴)

When those who believe in Our revelations come to you, say to them: "Peace on you." Your Lord has prescribed grace for Himself, so that in case one of you commits evil out of ignorance, then feels repentant and reforms, He may be forgiving and kind.

And when those who believe in Our signs come to thee, say, 'Peace be upon you. Your Lord has prescribed for Himself mercy. Whosoever of you does evil in ignorance, and thereafter repents and makes amends, He is All-forgiving, All-compassionate.'

6:55

وَ كَذٰلِكَ نُفَصِّلُ الْاٰیٰتِ وَ لِتَسْتَبِیْنَ سَبِیْلُ الْمُجْرِمِیْنَ۠(۵۵)

Thus distinctly do We explain Our signs that the way of sinners may become distinct.

Thus We distinguish Our signs, that the sinners' way may be manifest.

6:56

قُلْ اِنِّیْ نُهِیْتُ اَنْ اَعْبُدَ الَّذِیْنَ تَدْعُوْنَ مِنْ دُوْنِ اللّٰهِؕ-قُلْ لَّاۤ اَتَّبِـعُ اَهْوَآءَكُمْۙ-قَدْ ضَلَلْتُ اِذًا وَّ مَاۤ اَنَا مِنَ الْمُهْتَدِیْنَ(۵۶)

Tell them: "I am forbidden to worship those you invoke apart from God." And say: "I will not follow your wishes. If I do, I shall be lost and not be one of those who follow the right path."

Say: 'I am forbidden to serve those you call on apart from God.' Say: 'I do not follow your caprices, or else I had gone astray, and would not be of the right-guided.'

6:57

قُلْ اِنِّیْ عَلٰى بَیِّنَةٍ مِّنْ رَّبِّیْ وَ كَذَّبْتُمْ بِهٖؕ-مَا عِنْدِیْ مَا تَسْتَعْجِلُوْنَ بِهٖؕ-اِنِ الْحُكْمُ اِلَّا لِلّٰهِؕ-یَقُصُّ الْحَقَّ وَ هُوَ خَیْرُ الْفٰصِلِیْنَ(۵۷)

Tell them: "A clear proof has come to me from my Lord, and Him you deny. But what you wish to be hastened is not within my power. The judgement is only God´s. He unfolds the Truth, and is the best of judges."

Say: 'I stand upon a clear sign from my Lord, and you have cried lies to it. Not with me is that you seek to hasten; the judgment is God's alone. He relates the truth, and He is the Best of deciders.'

6:58

قُلْ لَّوْ اَنَّ عِنْدِیْ مَا تَسْتَعْجِلُوْنَ بِهٖ لَقُضِیَ الْاَمْرُ بَیْنِیْ وَ بَیْنَكُمْؕ-وَ اللّٰهُ اَعْلَمُ بِالظّٰلِمِیْنَ(۵۸)

Say: "If what you wish to be hastened were in my power, all matters between you and me would have been settled; God is cognisant of those who are unjust."

Say: 'If what you seek to hasten were with me, the matter between you and me would be decided; and God knows very well the evildoers.'

6:59

وَ عِنْدَهٗ مَفَاتِحُ الْغَیْبِ لَا یَعْلَمُهَاۤ اِلَّا هُوَؕ-وَ یَعْلَمُ مَا فِی الْبَرِّ وَ الْبَحْرِؕ-وَ مَا تَسْقُطُ مِنْ وَّرَقَةٍ اِلَّا یَعْلَمُهَا وَ لَا حَبَّةٍ فِیْ ظُلُمٰتِ الْاَرْضِ وَ لَا رَطْبٍ وَّ لَا یَابِسٍ اِلَّا فِیْ كِتٰبٍ مُّبِیْنٍ(۵۹)

He has the keys of the Unknown. No one but He has knowledge; He knows what is on the land and in the sea. Not a leaf falls without His knowledge, nor a grain in the darkest (recess) of the earth, nor any thing green or seared that is not recorded in the open book (of nature).

With Him are the keys of the Unseen; none knows them but He. He knows what is in land and sea; not a leaf falls, but He knows it. Not a grain in the earth's shadows, not a thing, fresh or withered, but it is in a Book Manifest.

6:60

وَ هُوَ الَّذِیْ یَتَوَفّٰىكُمْ بِالَّیْلِ وَ یَعْلَمُ مَا جَرَحْتُمْ بِالنَّهَارِ ثُمَّ یَبْعَثُكُمْ فِیْهِ لِیُقْضٰۤى اَجَلٌ مُّسَمًّىۚ-ثُمَّ اِلَیْهِ مَرْجِعُكُمْ ثُمَّ یُنَبِّئُكُمْ بِمَا كُنْتُمْ تَعْمَلُوْنَ۠(۶۰)

It is He indeed who sends you to death at night, and knows what you do in the day, then makes you rise with it again in order that the fixed term of life be fulfilled. Then to Him you will be returned when He will tell you what you did.

It is He who recalls you by night, and He knows what you work by day; then He raises you up therein, that a stated term may be determined; then unto Him shall you return, then He will tell you of what you have been doing.

6:61

وَ هُوَ الْقَاهِرُ فَوْقَ عِبَادِهٖ وَ یُرْسِلُ عَلَیْكُمْ حَفَظَةًؕ-حَتّٰۤى اِذَا جَآءَ اَحَدَكُمُ الْمَوْتُ تَوَفَّتْهُ رُسُلُنَا وَ هُمْ لَا یُفَرِّطُوْنَ(۶۱)

He has power over His creatures, and appoints guardians to watch over them. When death comes to one of you, Our messengers take away his soul, and do not falter.

He is the Omnipotent over His servants. He sends recorders over you till, when any one of you is visited by death, Our messengers take him and they neglect not.

6:62

ثُمَّ رُدُّوْۤا اِلَى اللّٰهِ مَوْلٰىهُمُ الْحَقِّؕ-اَلَا لَهُ الْحُكْمُ- وَ هُوَ اَسْرَعُ الْحٰسِبِیْنَ(۶۲)

Then they are taken to God, their real lord and master. His indeed is the judgement; and He is swift at reckoning.

Then they are restored to God their Protector, the True. Surely His is the judgment; He is the swiftest of reckoners.

6:63

قُلْ مَنْ یُّنَجِّیْكُمْ مِّنْ ظُلُمٰتِ الْبَرِّ وَ الْبَحْرِ تَدْعُوْنَهٗ تَضَرُّعًا وَّ خُفْیَةًۚ-لَىٕنْ اَنْجٰىنَا مِنْ هٰذِهٖ لَنَكُوْنَنَّ مِنَ الشّٰكِرِیْنَ(۶۳)

Ask: "Who is it who comes to your rescue in the darkness of the desert and the sea, and whom you supplicate humbly and unseen: ´If You deliver us from this, we shall indeed he grateful?´

Say: 'Who delivers you from the shadows of land and sea? You call upon Him humbly and secretly, "Truly, if Thou deliverest from these, we shall be among the thankful."

6:64

قُلِ اللّٰهُ یُنَجِّیْكُمْ مِّنْهَا وَ مِنْ كُلِّ كَرْبٍ ثُمَّ اَنْتُمْ تُشْرِكُوْنَ(۶۴)

Say: "God delivers you from this and every calamity. Even then you ascribe compeers (to Him)!"

Say: 'God delivers you from them and from every distress; then you assign Him associates.'

6:65

قُلْ هُوَ الْقَادِرُ عَلٰۤى اَنْ یَّبْعَثَ عَلَیْكُمْ عَذَابًا مِّنْ فَوْقِكُمْ اَوْ مِنْ تَحْتِ اَرْجُلِكُمْ اَوْ یَلْبِسَكُمْ شِیَعًا وَّ یُذِیْقَ بَعْضَكُمْ بَاْسَ بَعْضٍؕ-اُنْظُرْ كَیْفَ نُصَرِّفُ الْاٰیٰتِ لَعَلَّهُمْ یَفْقَهُوْنَ(۶۵)

Say: "He has power to send you retribution from the skies above, or the earth beneath your feet, or confound you with divisions among you, and give one the taste of the vengeance of the other." See, how distinctly We explain Our signs that they may understand.

Say: 'He is able to send forth upon you chastisement, from above you or from under your feet, or to confuse you in sects and to make you taste the violence of one another.' Behold how We turn about the signs; haply they will understand.

6:66

وَ كَذَّبَ بِهٖ قَوْمُكَ وَ هُوَ الْحَقُّؕ-قُلْ لَّسْتُ عَلَیْكُمْ بِوَكِیْلٍؕ(۶۶)

This (Book) has been called by your people a falsehood though it is the truth. Say: "I am not a warden over you."

Thy people have cried it lies; yet it is the truth. Say: 'I am not a guardian over you.

6:67

لِكُلِّ نَبَاٍ مُّسْتَقَرٌّ٘-وَّ سَوْفَ تَعْلَمُوْنَ(۶۷)

A time is fixed for every prophecy; you will come to know in time.

Every tiding has its time appointed; you will surely know.'

6:68

وَ اِذَا رَاَیْتَ الَّذِیْنَ یَخُوْضُوْنَ فِیْۤ اٰیٰتِنَا فَاَعْرِضْ عَنْهُمْ حَتّٰى یَخُوْضُوْا فِیْ حَدِیْثٍ غَیْرِهٖؕ-وَ اِمَّا یُنْسِیَنَّكَ الشَّیْطٰنُ فَلَا تَقْعُدْ بَعْدَ الذِّكْرٰى مَعَ الْقَوْمِ الظّٰلِمِیْنَ(۶۸)

When you see them argue about Our messages, withdraw from their company until they begin to talk of other things. In case the Devil makes you forget, leave the company of these unjust people the moment you remember this.

When thou seest those who plunge into Our signs, turn away from them until they plunge into some other talk; or if Satan should make thee forget, do not sit, after the reminding, with the people of the evildoers.

6:69

وَ مَا عَلَى الَّذِیْنَ یَتَّقُوْنَ مِنْ حِسَابِهِمْ مِّنْ شَیْءٍ وَّ لٰكِنْ ذِكْرٰى لَعَلَّهُمْ یَتَّقُوْنَ(۶۹)

As for the heedful and devout, they are not accountable for them, but should give advice: They may haply come to fear God.

Nothing of their account falls upon those that are godfearing; but a reminding; haply they will be godfearing.

6:70

وَ ذَرِ الَّذِیْنَ اتَّخَذُوْا دِیْنَهُمْ لَعِبًا وَّ لَهْوًا وَّ غَرَّتْهُمُ الْحَیٰوةُ الدُّنْیَا وَ ذَكِّرْ بِهٖۤ اَنْ تُبْسَلَ نَفْسٌۢ بِمَا كَسَبَتْ ﳓ لَیْسَ لَهَا مِنْ دُوْنِ اللّٰهِ وَلِیٌّ وَّ لَا شَفِیْعٌۚ-وَ اِنْ تَعْدِلْ كُلَّ عَدْلٍ لَّا یُؤْخَذْ مِنْهَاؕ-اُولٰٓىٕكَ الَّذِیْنَ اُبْسِلُوْا بِمَا كَسَبُوْاۚ-لَهُمْ شَرَابٌ مِّنْ حَمِیْمٍ وَّ عَذَابٌ اَلِیْمٌۢ بِمَا كَانُوْا یَكْفُرُوْنَ۠(۷۰)

Leave those alone who have made a sport and frolic of their faith, and have been seduced by the life of this world. Remind them hereby lest a man is doomed for what he has done. He will have none to help him, or intercede for him, other than God; and even if he offer all the ransoms they will not be accepted from him. They are those who will be destroyed by their own acts. There will be scalding water to drink for them and painful punishment, for they had disbelieved.

Leave alone those who take their religion for a sport and a diversion, and whom the present life has deluded. Remind hereby, lest a soul should be given up to destruction for what it has earned; apart from God, it has no protector and no intercessor; though it offer any equivalent, it shall not be taken from it. Those are they who are given up to destruction for what they have earned; for them awaits a draught of boiling water and a painful chastisement, for that they were unbelievers.

6:71

قُلْ اَنَدْعُوْا مِنْ دُوْنِ اللّٰهِ مَا لَا یَنْفَعُنَا وَ لَا یَضُرُّنَا وَ نُرَدُّ عَلٰۤى اَعْقَابِنَا بَعْدَ اِذْ هَدٰىنَا اللّٰهُ كَالَّذِی اسْتَهْوَتْهُ الشَّیٰطِیْنُ فِی الْاَرْضِ حَیْرَانَ۪-لَهٗۤ اَصْحٰبٌ یَّدْعُوْنَهٗۤ اِلَى الْهُدَى ائْتِنَاؕ-قُلْ اِنَّ هُدَى اللّٰهِ هُوَ الْهُدٰىؕ-وَ اُمِرْنَا لِنُسْلِمَ لِرَبِّ الْعٰلَمِیْنَۙ(۷۱)

Say: ´Should we call in place of God one who can neither help nor do us harm, and turn back after having been guided by God, like a man beguiled by the devils who wanders perplexed in the wilderness while his friends call him back to the right path, saying: ´Come to us, this way?´ Say: "God´s guidance is (true) guidance, and we have been commanded to submit to the Lord of all the worlds.

Say: 'Shall we call, apart from God, on that which neither profits nor hurts us, and shall we be turned back on our heels after that God has guided us? -- Like one lured to bewilderment in the earth by Satans, though he has friends who call him to guidance, "Come to us!" Say: 'God's guidance is the true guidance, and we are commanded to surrender to the Lord of all Being,

6:72

وَ اَنْ اَقِیْمُوا الصَّلٰوةَ وَ اتَّقُوْهُؕ-وَ هُوَ الَّذِیْۤ اِلَیْهِ تُحْشَرُوْنَ(۷۲)

Observe (your) devotional obligations and fear (God), for it is He before whom you will be gathered (in the end)."

and: "Perform the prayer, and fear Him; it is unto Him you shall be mustered."

6:73

وَ هُوَ الَّذِیْ خَلَقَ السَّمٰوٰتِ وَ الْاَرْضَ بِالْحَقِّؕ-وَ یَوْمَ یَقُوْلُ كُنْ فَیَكُوْنُ ﱟ قَوْلُهُ الْحَقُّؕ-وَ لَهُ الْمُلْكُ یَوْمَ یُنْفَخُ فِی الصُّوْرِؕ-عٰلِمُ الْغَیْبِ وَ الشَّهَادَةِؕ-وَ هُوَ الْحَكِیْمُ الْخَبِیْرُ(۷۳)

It is He who created the heavens and the earth with a definite purpose. The day He will say "Be, " it will be. His word is the truth, His alone the power on the Day when the blast of the trumpet will be sounded. He knows the hidden and the visible. He is all-prudent and all-knowing.

It is He who created the heavens and the earth in truth; and the day He says 'Be', and it is; His saying is true, and His is the Kingdom the day the Trumpet is blown; He is Knower of the Unseen and the visible; He is the All-wise, the All-aware.

6:74

وَ اِذْ قَالَ اِبْرٰهِیْمُ لِاَبِیْهِ اٰزَرَ اَتَتَّخِذُ اَصْنَامًا اٰلِهَةًۚ-اِنِّیْۤ اَرٰىكَ وَ قَوْمَكَ فِیْ ضَلٰلٍ مُّبِیْنٍ(۷۴)

Remember when Abraham said to Azar, his father: "Why do you take idols for God? I certainly find you and your people in error."

And when Abraham said to his father Azar, 'Takest thou idols for gods? I see thee, and thy people, in manifest error.'

6:75

وَ كَذٰلِكَ نُرِیْۤ اِبْرٰهِیْمَ مَلَكُوْتَ السَّمٰوٰتِ وَ الْاَرْضِ وَ لِیَكُوْنَ مِنَ الْمُوْقِنِیْنَ(۷۵)

Thus We showed to Abraham the visible and invisible world of the heavens and the earth, that he could be among those who believe.

So We were showing Abraham the kingdom of the heavens and earth, that he might be of those having sure faith.

6:76

فَلَمَّا جَنَّ عَلَیْهِ الَّیْلُ رَاٰ كَوْكَبًاۚ-قَالَ هٰذَا رَبِّیْۚ-فَلَمَّاۤ اَفَلَ قَالَ لَاۤ اُحِبُّ الْاٰفِلِیْنَ(۷۶)

When the night came with her covering of darkness he saw a star, and (Azar, his father) said: "This is my Lord." But when the star set, (Abraham) said: "I love not those that wane."

When night outspread over him he saw a star and said, 'This is my Lord.' But when it set he said, 'I love not the setters.'

6:77

فَلَمَّا رَاَ الْقَمَرَ بَازِغًا قَالَ هٰذَا رَبِّیْۚ-فَلَمَّاۤ اَفَلَ قَالَ لَىٕنْ لَّمْ یَهْدِنِیْ رَبِّیْ لَاَكُوْنَنَّ مِنَ الْقَوْمِ الضَّآلِّیْنَ(۷۷)

When (Azar) saw the moon rise all aglow, he said: "This is my Lord." But even as the moon set, (Abraham) said: "If my Lord had not shown me the way I would surely have gone astray."

When he saw the moon rising, he said, 'This is my Lord.' But when it set he said, 'If my Lord does not guide me I shall surely be of the people gone astray.'

6:78

فَلَمَّا رَاَ الشَّمْسَ بَازِغَةً قَالَ هٰذَا رَبِّیْ هٰذَاۤ اَكْبَرُۚ-فَلَمَّاۤ اَفَلَتْ قَالَ یٰقَوْمِ اِنِّیْ بَرِیْٓءٌ مِّمَّا تُشْرِكُوْنَ(۷۸)

When (Azar) saw the sun rise all resplendent, he said: "My Lord is surely this, and the greatest of them all." But the sun also set, and (Abraham) said: "O my people, I am through with those you associate (with God).

When he saw the sun rising, he said, 'This is my Lord; this is greater!' But when it set he said, 'O my people, surely I am quit of that you associate.

6:79

اِنِّیْ وَجَّهْتُ وَجْهِیَ لِلَّذِیْ فَطَرَ السَّمٰوٰتِ وَ الْاَرْضَ حَنِیْفًا وَّ مَاۤ اَنَا مِنَ الْمُشْرِكِیْنَۚ(۷۹)

I have truly turned my face towards Him who created the heavens and the earth: I have chosen one way and am not an idolater."

I have turned my face to Him who originated the heavens and the earth, a man of pure faith; I am not of the idolaters.'

6:80

وَ حَآجَّهٗ قَوْمُهٗؕ-قَالَ اَتُحَآجُّوْٓنِّیْ فِی اللّٰهِ وَ قَدْ هَدٰىنِؕ-وَ لَاۤ اَخَافُ مَا تُشْرِكُوْنَ بِهٖۤ اِلَّاۤ اَنْ یَّشَآءَ رَبِّیْ شَیْــٴًـاؕ-وَسِعَ رَبِّیْ كُلَّ شَیْءٍ عِلْمًاؕ-اَفَلَا تَتَذَكَّرُوْنَ(۸۰)

His people argued, and he said: "Do you argue with me about God? He has guided me already, and I fear not what you associate with Him, unless my Lord wills, for held within the knowledge of my Lord is everything. Will you not reflect?

His people disputed with him. He said, 'Do you dispute with me concerning God, and He has guided me? I fear not what you associate with Him, except my Lord will aught. My Lord embraces all things in His knowledge; will you not remember?