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An-Nahl 33

Ayah 33 of 128 · Meccan

هَلۡ يَنظُرُونَ إِلَّآ أَن تَأۡتِيَهُمُ ٱلۡمَلَٰٓئِكَةُ أَوۡ يَأۡتِيَ أَمۡرُ رَبِّكَۚ كَذَٰلِكَ فَعَلَ ٱلَّذِينَ مِن قَبۡلِهِمۡۚ وَمَا ظَلَمَهُمُ ٱللَّهُ وَلَٰكِن كَانُوٓاْ أَنفُسَهُمۡ يَظۡلِمُونَ ٣٣

Do they [i.e., the disbelievers] await except that the angels should come to them or there comes the command of your Lord? Thus did those do before them. And Allāh wronged them not, but they had been wronging themselves.

Translation: Saheeh International (English)

Word by word

Each word's meaning and sound

  1. هَلۡDohal
  2. يَنظُرُونَthey waityanẓurūna
  3. إِلَّآexceptillā
  4. أَنthatan
  5. تَأۡتِيَهُمُ(should) come to themtatiyahumu
  6. ٱلۡمَلَٰٓئِكَةُthe Angelsl-malāikatu
  7. أَوۡoraw
  8. يَأۡتِيَ(should) comeyatiya
  9. أَمۡرُ(the) Commandamru
  10. رَبِّكَۚ(of) your Lordrabbika
  11. كَذَٰلِكَThuskadhālika
  12. فَعَلَdidfaʿala
  13. ٱلَّذِينَthose whoalladhīna
  14. مِن(were) before themmin
  15. قَبۡلِهِمۡۚ(were) before themqablihim
  16. وَمَاAnd notwamā
  17. ظَلَمَهُمُwronged themẓalamahumu
  18. ٱللَّهُAllahl-lahu
  19. وَلَٰكِنbutwalākin
  20. كَانُوٓاْthey werekānū
  21. أَنفُسَهُمۡthemselvesanfusahum
  22. يَظۡلِمُونَwrongingyaẓlimūna

Tafsir

Are these denying idolaters waiting for anything but the angel of death and his aides to come to take their souls and strike their faces and their backs, or for Allah’s command to come to eradicate them by means of a punishment in the world? Similar to those idolaters who came before who were destroyed because if their idolatry; so too the idolaters of Makkah may perhaps meet the same fate. Allah did not wrong them when He destroyed them but they wronged their own souls by bringing them to the point of destruction because of their disbelief in Allah.

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