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Al-A'raf 185

Ayah 185 of 206 · Meccan

أَوَلَمۡ يَنظُرُواْ فِي مَلَكُوتِ ٱلسَّمَٰوَٰتِ وَٱلۡأَرۡضِ وَمَا خَلَقَ ٱللَّهُ مِن شَيۡءٖ وَأَنۡ عَسَىٰٓ أَن يَكُونَ قَدِ ٱقۡتَرَبَ أَجَلُهُمۡۖ فَبِأَيِّ حَدِيثِۭ بَعۡدَهُۥ يُؤۡمِنُونَ ١٨٥

Do they not look into the realm of the heavens and the earth and everything that Allāh has created and [think] that perhaps their appointed time has come near? So in what statement [i.e., message] hereafter will they believe?

Translation: Saheeh International (English)

Word by word

Each word's meaning and sound

  1. أَوَلَمۡDo notawalam
  2. يَنظُرُواْthey lookyanẓurū
  3. فِيinfī
  4. مَلَكُوتِ(the) dominionmalakūti
  5. ٱلسَّمَٰوَٰتِ(of) the heavensl-samāwāti
  6. وَٱلۡأَرۡضِand the earthwal-arḍi
  7. وَمَاand whatwamā
  8. خَلَقَhas (been) createdkhalaqa
  9. ٱللَّهُ(by) Allahl-lahu
  10. مِنofmin
  11. شَيۡءٖ(every)thingshayin
  12. وَأَنۡand thatwa-an
  13. عَسَىٰٓperhapsʿasā
  14. أَن[that]an
  15. يَكُونَhasyakūna
  16. قَدِverilyqadi
  17. ٱقۡتَرَبَcome near iq'taraba
  18. أَجَلُهُمۡۖtheir termajaluhum
  19. فَبِأَيِّSo in whatfabi-ayyi
  20. حَدِيثِۭstatementḥadīthin
  21. بَعۡدَهُۥafter thisbaʿdahu
  22. يُؤۡمِنُونَwill they believeyu'minūna

Tafsir

Do these people learn nothing from seeing Allah’s control of the heavens and the earth, and all the animals and plants and other things that Allah created in them, and their own life spans, the end of which may be near, so that they might repent to Allah before the time has gone? If they do not have faith in the Qur’ān and the promises it contains, what other book will they believe in?

Al-Mukhtasar in interpreting the Noble Quran