Verse. 4280

٤٢ - ٱلشُّورىٰ

42 - Ash-Shura

وَلَوْ شَاۗءَ اللہُ لَجَعَلَہُمْ اُمَّۃً وَّاحِدَۃً وَّلٰكِنْ يُّدْخِلُ مَنْ يَّشَاۗءُ فِيْ رَحْمَتِہٖ۝۰ۭ وَالظّٰلِمُوْنَ مَا لَہُمْ مِّنْ وَّلِيٍّ وَلَا نَصِيْرٍ۝۸
Walaw shaa Allahu lajaAAalahum ommatan wahidatan walakin yudkhilu man yashao fee rahmatihi waalththalimoona ma lahum min waliyyin wala naseerin

English

Ahmed Ali

If God had pleased He would have made them one community of belief; but He admits whom He please to His grace; yet the sinners have neither friend nor helper.

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Tafseer

'Abdullāh Ibn 'Abbās / Muḥammad al-Fīrūzabādī

تفسير : (had allah willed, he could have made them one community) had allah willed he would have gathered the jews, christians and the idolaters in one religion, the religion of islam, (but allah bringeth whom he will into his mercy) to his religion: islam. (and the wrong-doers) the jews, christians and idolaters (have no friend) have no relative to assist them (nor helper) to save them from allah's punishment.

Jalāl al-Dīn al-Maḥallī

تفسير : and had god willed, he would have made them one community, in other words, following one religion, and that is islam; but he admits whomever he will into his mercy, and the evildoers, the disbelievers, have neither guardian nor helper, to ward off the chastisement from them.

Sahl al-Tustari

تفسير : and had god willed, he would have made them one community…he said:the outer meaning [of the verse] refers to disbelief (kufr), and its inner meaning refers to the servant’s [moments of] activity (ḥarakāt) and passivity (sukūn). if god so willed he would have placed them all in obedience to him; but he admits whomever he will into his mercy, that is, into his obedience. and the evildoers, who claim to possess the power (ḥawl) and strength (quwwa), have neither guardian nor helper in [their being] contrary (khilāf) [to the state they should be in], that is, they are in a state of passivity (sukūn) with regard to [his] commandments(amr) and activity with regard to that which is forbidden (nahy).his words: