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Al-Baqarah 32

Ayah 32 of 286 · Medinan

قَالُواْ سُبۡحَٰنَكَ لَا عِلۡمَ لَنَآ إِلَّا مَا عَلَّمۡتَنَآۖ إِنَّكَ أَنتَ ٱلۡعَلِيمُ ٱلۡحَكِيمُ ٣٢

They said, "Exalted are You; we have no knowledge except what You have taught us. Indeed, it is You who is the Knowing,1 the Wise."2

Translation: Saheeh International (English)

1 Whose eternal and absolute knowledge encompasses the truth and essence of all things, seen or unseen, present or absent, neither preceded by ignorance nor followed by forgetfulness.

2 Whose wisdom includes precise and perfect knowledge of all realities and outcomes, according to which He decrees and causes various circumstances and occurrences.

Word by word

Each word's meaning and sound

  1. قَالُواْThey saidqālū
  2. سُبۡحَٰنَكَGlory be to Yousub'ḥānaka
  3. لَاNolā
  4. عِلۡمَknowledgeʿil'ma
  5. لَنَآ(is) for uslanā
  6. إِلَّاexceptillā
  7. مَاwhatmā
  8. عَلَّمۡتَنَآۖYou have taught usʿallamtanā
  9. إِنَّكَIndeed Youinnaka
  10. أَنتَYouanta
  11. ٱلۡعَلِيمُ(are) the All-Knowingl-ʿalīmu
  12. ٱلۡحَكِيمُthe All-Wisel-ḥakīmu

Tafsir

Recognising their shortcomings and that everything comes from Allah, they said that they acknowledged that His judgement and sacred law could not be doubted, and that they had no knowledge except for the knowledge He had given them, accepting that He is the Knowing, from Whom nothing is hidden, and the Wise in His decrees and laws.

Al-Mukhtasar in interpreting the Noble Quran