Skip to content

Saba 41

Ayah 41 of 54 · Meccan

قَالُواْ سُبۡحَٰنَكَ أَنتَ وَلِيُّنَا مِن دُونِهِمۖ بَلۡ كَانُواْ يَعۡبُدُونَ ٱلۡجِنَّۖ أَكۡثَرُهُم بِهِم مُّؤۡمِنُونَ ٤١

They will say, "Exalted are You! You, [O Allāh], are our benefactor excluding [i.e., not] them. Rather, they used to worship the jinn; most of them were believers in them."

Translation: Saheeh International (English)

Word by word

Each word's meaning and sound

  1. قَالُواْThey will sayqālū
  2. سُبۡحَٰنَكَGlory be to Yousub'ḥānaka
  3. أَنتَYouanta
  4. وَلِيُّنَا(are) our Protectorwaliyyunā
  5. مِنnot themmin
  6. دُونِهِمۖnot themdūnihim
  7. بَلۡNaybal
  8. كَانُواْthey usedkānū
  9. يَعۡبُدُونَ(to) worshipyaʿbudūna
  10. ٱلۡجِنَّۖthe jinnl-jina
  11. أَكۡثَرُهُمmost of themaktharuhum
  12. بِهِمin thembihim
  13. مُّؤۡمِنُونَ(were) believersmu'minūna

Tafsir

The angels will say: “You are pure and exalted. You are our guardian, not them, so there is no friendship between us and them, but rather these idolaters used to worship the satans. They used to appear to them as angels, so they would worship them besides Allah, most of them were believers in them”.

Al-Mukhtasar in interpreting the Noble Quran