Verse. 1975

١٦ - ٱلنَّحْل

16 - An-Nahl

فَلَا تَضْرِبُوْا لِلہِ الْاَمْثَالَ۝۰ۭ اِنَّ اللہَ يَعْلَمُ وَاَنْتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُوْنَ۝۷۴
Fala tadriboo lillahi alamthala inna Allaha yaAAlamu waantum la taAAlamoona

English

Ahmed Ali

So do not invent similitudes for God. Indeed God knows, and you do not know.

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Tafseer

'Abdullāh Ibn 'Abbās / Muḥammad al-Fīrūzabādī

تفسير : (so coin not similitudes for allah) do not ascribe sons and partners and co-equals to allah. (lo! allah knoweth) that he has no son or partner; (ye know not) this, o congregation of disbelievers.

Jalāl al-Dīn al-Maḥallī

تفسير : so do not strike any similitude for god, [do not] ascribe to god likenesses and then associate them with him [in power]. truly god knows, that there is nothing like him, and you do not know, this.