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)

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?"

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.

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.

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?"

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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."

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."

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."

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).

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.

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.

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.

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?´

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)!"

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.

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."

6:67

لِكُلِّ نَبَاٍ مُّسْتَقَرٌّ٘-وَّ سَوْفَ تَعْلَمُوْنَ(۶۷)

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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)."

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.

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."

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.

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."

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."

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).

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."

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?