١٦ - ٱلنَّحْل

16 - An-Nahl

وَقِيْلَ لِلَّذِيْنَ اتَّقَوْا مَاذَاۗ اَنْزَلَ رَبُّكُمْ۝۰ۭ قَالُوْا خَيْرًا۝۰ۭ لِلَّذِيْنَ اَحْسَنُوْا فِيْ ہٰذِہِ الدُّنْيَا حَسَـنَۃٌ۝۰ۭ وَلَدَارُ الْاٰخِرَۃِ خَيْرٌ۝۰ۭ وَلَنِعْمَ دَارُ الْمُتَّقِيْنَ۝۳۰ۙ
Waqeela lillatheena ittaqaw matha anzala rabbukum qaloo khayran lillatheena ahsanoo fee hathihi alddunya hasanatun waladaru alakhirati khayrun walaniAAma daru almuttaqeena

English

Ahmed Ali

When those who took heed for themselves would be asked: "What did your Lord send down?" They will answer: "The best." For those who do good there is good in the world, but certainly the abode of the next is better. How excellent the home of the virtuous!

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جَنّٰتُ عَدْنٍ يَّدْخُلُوْنَہَا تَجْرِيْ مِنْ تَحْتِہَا الْاَنْہٰرُ لَہُمْ فِيْہَا مَا يَشَاۗءُوْنَ۝۰ۭ كَذٰلِكَ يَجْزِي اللہُ الْمُتَّقِيْنَ۝۳۱ۙ
Jannatu AAadnin yadkhuloonaha tajree min tahtiha alanharu lahum feeha ma yashaoona kathalika yajzee Allahu almuttaqeena

English

Ahmed Ali

They will enter perennial gardens with streams of water and all they wish. Thus will the pious and devout be rewarded.

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الَّذِيْنَ تَتَوَفّٰىہُمُ الْمَلٰۗىِٕكَۃُ طَيِّبِيْنَ۝۰ۙ يَقُوْلُوْنَ سَلٰمٌ عَلَيْكُمُ۝۰ۙ ادْخُلُوا الْجَنَّۃَ بِمَا كُنْتُمْ تَعْمَلُوْنَ۝۳۲
Allatheena tatawaffahumu almalaikatu tayyibeena yaqooloona salamun AAalaykumu odkhuloo aljannata bima kuntum taAAmaloona

English

Ahmed Ali

When the angels receive the souls of those who are blameless they will say: "Peace on you. Enter Paradise as recompense for what you did."

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ہَلْ يَنْظُرُوْنَ اِلَّاۗ اَنْ تَاْتِيَہُمُ الْمَلٰۗىِٕكَۃُ اَوْ يَاْتِيَ اَمْرُ رَبِّكَ۝۰ۭ كَذٰلِكَ فَعَلَ الَّذِيْنَ مِنْ قَبْلِہِمْ۝۰ۭ وَمَا ظَلَمَہُمُ اللہُ وَلٰكِنْ كَانُوْۗا اَنْفُسَہُمْ يَظْلِمُوْنَ۝۳۳
Hal yanthuroona illa an tatiyahumu almalaikatu aw yatiya amru rabbika kathalika faAAala allatheena min qablihim wama thalamahumu Allahu walakin kanoo anfusahum yathlimoona

English

Ahmed Ali

What! Do the (unbelievers) expect that the angels should descend, or the sentence of your Lord come to pass? So had the people done before them; yet God did not wrong them, they wronged themselves.

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فَاَصَابَہُمْ سَـيِّاٰتُ مَا عَمِلُوْا وَحَاقَ بِہِمْ مَّا كَانُوْا بِہٖ يَسْتَہْزِءُوْنَ۝۳۴ۧ
Faasabahum sayyiatu ma AAamiloo wahaqa bihim ma kanoo bihi yastahzioona

English

Ahmed Ali

The evil they perpetrated overtook them, and what they mocked has turned upon them.

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وَقَالَ الَّذِيْنَ اَشْرَكُوْا لَوْ شَاۗءَ اللہُ مَا عَبَدْنَا مِنْ دُوْنِہٖ مِنْ شَيْءٍ نَّحْنُ وَلَاۗ اٰبَاۗؤُنَا وَلَا حَرَّمْنَا مِنْ دُوْنِہٖ مِنْ شَيْءٍ۝۰ۭ كَذٰلِكَ فَعَلَ الَّذِيْنَ مِنْ قَبْلِہِمْ۝۰ۚ فَہَلْ عَلَي الرُّسُلِ اِلَّا الْبَلٰغُ الْمُبِيْنُ۝۳۵
Waqala allatheena ashrakoo law shaa Allahu ma AAabadna min doonihi min shayin nahnu wala abaona wala harramna min doonihi min shayin kathalika faAAala allatheena min qablihim fahal AAala alrrusuli illa albalaghu almubeenu

English

Ahmed Ali

The idolaters say: "If God had willed we would not have worshipped anything apart from Him, nor would our fathers have done, nor would we have forbidden any thing without His (leave)." So had the people done before them. Therefore it is binding on the prophets to convey the message in clearest terms.

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وَلَقَدْ بَعَثْنَا فِيْ كُلِّ اُمَّۃٍ رَّسُوْلًا اَنِ اعْبُدُوا اللہَ وَاجْتَـنِبُوا الطَّاغُوْتَ۝۰ۚ فَمِنْہُمْ مَّنْ ہَدَى اللہُ وَمِنْہُمْ مَّنْ حَقَّتْ عَلَيْہِ الضَّلٰلَۃُ۝۰ۭ فَسِيْرُوْا فِي الْاَرْضِ فَانْظُرُوْا كَيْفَ كَانَ عَاقِبَۃُ الْمُكَذِّبِيْنَ۝۳۶
Walaqad baAAathna fee kulli ommatin rasoolan ani oAAbudoo Allaha waijtaniboo alttaghoota faminhum man hada Allahu waminhum man haqqat AAalayhi alddalalatu faseeroo fee alardi faonthuroo kayfa kana AAaqibatu almukaththibeena

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Ahmed Ali

To every community We have sent an apostle. (saying:) "Worship God, and keep away from all other deities." Thus some of them were guided by God, and ruin was justified on some. Travel over the earth and see what befell those who accused (the apostles) of lies.

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اِنْ تَحْرِصْ عَلٰي ہُدٰىہُمْ فَاِنَّ اللہَ لَا يَہْدِيْ مَنْ يُضِلُّ وَّمَا لَہُمْ مِّنْ نّٰصِرِيْنَ۝۳۷
In tahris AAala hudahum fainna Allaha la yahdee man yudillu wama lahum min nasireena

English

Ahmed Ali

Even if you are eager to guide them, God does not surely guide those who have gone astray: They will have no one to help them.

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وَاَقْسَمُوْا بِاللہِ جَہْدَ اَيْمَانِہِمْ۝۰ۙ لَا يَبْعَثُ اللہُ مَنْ يَّمُوْتُ۝۰ۭ بَلٰى وَعْدًا عَلَيْہِ حَقًّا وَّلٰكِنَّ اَكْثَرَ النَّاسِ لَا يَعْلَمُوْنَ۝۳۸ۙ
Waaqsamoo biAllahi jahda aymanihim la yabAAathu Allahu man yamootu bala waAAdan AAalayhi haqqan walakinna akthara alnnasi la yaAAlamoona

English

Ahmed Ali

They swear emphatically in the name of God that God will not raise the dead. On the contrary, it is a promise incumbent on Him, though most men do not understand,

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لِيُـبَيِّنَ لَہُمُ الَّذِيْ يَخْتَلِفُوْنَ فِيْہِ وَلِيَعْلَمَ الَّذِيْنَ كَفَرُوْۗا اَنَّہُمْ كَانُوْا كٰذِبِيْنَ۝۳۹
Liyubayyina lahumu allathee yakhtalifoona feehi waliyaAAlama allatheena kafaroo annahum kanoo kathibeena

English

Ahmed Ali

For (they fear) He might make what they differed about plain to them, and that the infidels may realise that they were liars.

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