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Ash-Shu'ara 4

Ayah 4 of 227 · Meccan

إِن نَّشَأۡ نُنَزِّلۡ عَلَيۡهِم مِّنَ ٱلسَّمَآءِ ءَايَةٗ فَظَلَّتۡ أَعۡنَٰقُهُمۡ لَهَا خَٰضِعِينَ ٤

If We willed, We could send down to them from the sky a sign for which their necks would remain humbled.1

Translation: Saheeh International (English)

1 i.e., they would be compelled to believe.

Word by word

Each word's meaning and sound

  1. إِنIfin
  2. نَّشَأۡWe willnasha
  3. نُنَزِّلۡWe can send downnunazzil
  4. عَلَيۡهِمto themʿalayhim
  5. مِّنَfrommina
  6. ٱلسَّمَآءِthe skyl-samāi
  7. ءَايَةٗa Signāyatan
  8. فَظَلَّتۡso would bendfaẓallat
  9. أَعۡنَٰقُهُمۡtheir necksaʿnāquhum
  10. لَهَاto itlahā
  11. خَٰضِعِينَ(in) humilitykhāḍiʿīna

Tafsir

If I had wished to send down to them a miracle from the sky I would have sent it down and their necks would remain bowed in utter humility before it. But I did not wish that, in order to test them: Do they believe in the Ghaib?

Al-Mukhtasar in interpreting the Noble Quran