Verse. 1969

١٦ - ٱلنَّحْل

16 - An-Nahl

وَاَوْحٰى رَبُّكَ اِلَى النَّحْلِ اَنِ اتَّخِذِيْ مِنَ الْجِبَالِ بُيُوْتًا وَّمِنَ الشَّجَرِ وَمِمَّا يَعْرِشُوْنَ۝۶۸ۙ
Waawha rabbuka ila alnnahli ani ittakhithee mina aljibali buyootan wamina alshshajari wamimma yaAArishoona

English

Ahmed Ali

Your Lord predisposed the bees to make their hives in mountains, trees and trellices,

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Tafseer

'Abdullāh Ibn 'Abbās / Muḥammad al-Fīrūzabādī

تفسير : (and thy lord inspired the bee, saying: choose thou habitations in the hills and in the trees and in that which they thatch) and in that which they build;

Jalāl al-Dīn al-Maḥallī

تفسير : and your lord revealed to the bee, a revealing [effected] through inspiration, [saying] (an, ‘that’, is either explicative or relates to the verbal noun): ‘choose among the hills habitations, to which you can resort, and among the trees, [also] habitations, and among the trellises which they raise, that is, the places which humans build for you — for otherwise it [the bee] would not resort to these [places].