Verse. 2021

١٦ - ٱلنَّحْل

16 - An-Nahl

اِنَّ اِبْرٰہِيْمَ كَانَ اُمَّۃً قَانِتًا لِّلہِ حَنِيْفًا۝۰ۭ وَلَمْ يَكُ مِنَ الْمُشْرِكِيْنَ۝۱۲۰ۙ
Inna ibraheema kana ommatan qanitan lillahi haneefan walam yaku mina almushrikeena

English

Ahmed Ali

Abraham was certainly a model of faith, obedient to God and upright, and not one of idolaters,

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Tafseer

'Abdullāh Ibn 'Abbās / Muḥammad al-Fīrūzabādī

تفسير : (lo! abraham was a nation) a leader who was emulated (obedient to allah, by nature upright) sincerely surrendered to allah, (and he was not of the idolaters) he did not follow the idolaters in their religion;

Jalāl al-Dīn al-Maḥallī

تفسير : truly abraham was a community, a leader (imām), a [good] example, comprising [in his character] all the good traits, obedient to god, a hanīf, inclining towards the upright religion, and he was not of the idolaters;