Sure 17 Al-Israa — Ayet 88
قُل لَّئِنِ ٱجْتَمَعَتِ ٱلْإِنسُ وَٱلْجِنُّ عَلَىٰٓ أَن يَأْتُوا۟ بِمِثْلِ هَٰذَا ٱلْقُرْءَانِ لَا يَأْتُونَ بِمِثْلِهِۦ وَلَوْ كَانَ بَعْضُهُمْ لِبَعْضٍۢ ظَهِيرًۭا
De ki: "İnsanlar ve cinler, birbirine yardımcı olarak bu Kuran'ın bir benzerini ortaya koymak için bir araya gelseler, and olsun ki, yine de benzerini ortaya koyamazlar."
qul la-ini ij'tamaʿati l-insu wal-jinu ʿalā an yatū bimith'li hādhā l-qur'āni lā yatūna bimith'lihi walaw kāna baʿḍuhum libaʿḍin ẓahīran
Kelime kelime
- قُل qul Say
- لَّئِنِ la-ini If
- ٱجْتَمَعَتِ ij'tamaʿati gathered
- ٱلْإِنسُ l-insu the mankind
- وَٱلْجِنُّ wal-jinu and the jinn
- عَلَىٰٓ ʿalā to
- أَن an [that]
- يَأْتُوا۟ yatū bring
- بِمِثْلِ bimith'li the like
- هَـٰذَا hādhā (of) this
- ٱلْقُرْءَانِ l-qur'āni Quran
- لَا lā not
- يَأْتُونَ yatūna they (could) bring
- بِمِثْلِهِۦ bimith'lihi the like of it
- وَلَوْ walaw even if
- كَانَ kāna were
- بَعْضُهُمْ baʿḍuhum some of them
- لِبَعْضٍۢ libaʿḍin to some others
- ظَهِيرًۭا ẓahīran assistants
Tefsir · Ibn Kathir (Abridged)
If Allah willed, He could take away the Qur'an
Allah mentions the blessing and great bounty that He has bestowed upon His servant and Messenger Muhammad by revealing to Him the Noble Qur'an to which falsehood cannot come, from before it or behind it, (it is) sent down by the All-Wise, Worthy of all praise. Ibn Mas`ud said, "A red wind will come to the people, meaning at the end of time, from the direction of Syria, and there will be nothing left in a man's Mushaf (copy of the Qur'an) or in his heart, not even one Ayah." Then Ibn Mas`ud recited:
(And if We willed, We could surely take away that which We have revealed to you.)
Challenging by the Qur'an
Then Allah points out the great virtue of the Qur'an, and says that even if mankind and the Jinn were all to come together and agree to produce something like that which was revealed to His Messenger , they would never be able to do it, even if they were to cooperate and support and help one another. This is something which is impossible. How could the words of created beings be like the Words of the Creator Who has no equal and peer, for there is none like unto Him
(And indeed We have fully explained to man- kind,) meaning, `We have furnished them with evidence and defini- tive proof, and We have shown them the truth and explained it in detail, yet despite that most of mankind insist on disbelief, i.e., denying and rejecting the truth.'