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Surah 16 An-Nahl — Ayah 22

سُورَةُ النَّحۡلِ · Meccan · Tzvetan Theophanov

22

إِلَٰهُكُمْ إِلَٰهٌۭ وَٰحِدٌۭ ۚ فَٱلَّذِينَ لَا يُؤْمِنُونَ بِٱلْءَاخِرَةِ قُلُوبُهُم مُّنكِرَةٌۭ وَهُم مُّسْتَكْبِرُونَ

Вашият Бог е единственият Бог. А онези, които не вярват в отвъдния живот, сърцата им [Го] отричат и надменни са те.

ilāhukum ilāhun wāḥidun fa-alladhīna lā yu'minūna bil-ākhirati qulūbuhum munkiratun wahum mus'takbirūna

Word by word

  • إِلَـٰهُكُمْ ilāhukum Your god
  • إِلَـٰهٌۭ ilāhun (is) God
  • وَٰحِدٌۭ ۚ wāḥidun One
  • فَٱلَّذِينَ fa-alladhīna But those who
  • لَا lā (do) not
  • يُؤْمِنُونَ yu'minūna believe
  • بِٱلْـَٔاخِرَةِ bil-ākhirati in the Hereafter
  • قُلُوبُهُم qulūbuhum their hearts
  • مُّنكِرَةٌۭ munkiratun refuse
  • وَهُم wahum and they
  • مُّسْتَكْبِرُونَ mus'takbirūna (are) arrogant
Tafsir · Ibn Kathir (Abridged)

None is to be worshipped except Allah

Allah tells us that there is none to be worshipped besides Him, the One, the Unique, the Lone, the Self-Sufficient. He tells us that the hearts of the disbelievers deny that and are astonished by that:

أَجَعَلَ الاٌّلِهَةَ إِلَـهاً وَحِداً إِنَّ هَـذَا لَشَىْءٌ عُجَابٌ

("Has he made the gods (all) into One God! Verily, this is a curious thing!") (38:5).

وَإِذَا ذُكِرَ اللَّهُ وَحْدَهُ اشْمَأَزَّتْ قُلُوبُ الَّذِينَ لاَ يُؤْمِنُونَ بِالاٌّخِرَةِ وَإِذَا ذُكِرَ الَّذِينَ مِن دُونِهِ إِذَا هُمْ يَسْتَبْشِرُونَ

(And when Allah alone is mentioned, the hearts of those who do not believe in the Hereafter are filled with disgust, and when those besides Him are mentioned, behold, they rejoice!) (39:45).

وَهُم مُّسْتَكْبِرُونَ

(and they are proud) meaning they are too proud to worship Allah, and their hearts reject the idea of singling Him out, as Allah says:

إِنَّ الَّذِينَ يَسْتَكْبِرُونَ عَنْ عِبَادَتِى سَيَدْخُلُونَ جَهَنَّمَ دَخِرِينَ

(Verily! Those who scorn My worship they will surely enter Hell in humiliation!) 40:60 So here, Allah says;

لاَ جَرَمَ

(Certainly), meaning truly,

أَنَّ اللَّهَ يَعْلَمُ مَا يُسِرُّونَ وَمَا يُعْلِنُونَ

(Allah knows what they conceal and what they reveal.) meaning He will requite them for that in full.

إِنَّهُ لاَ يُحِبُّ الْمُسْتَكْبِرِينَ

(Truly, He does not like the proud.)