Surah 6 Al-An'aam — Ayah 108
وَلَا تَسُبُّوا۟ ٱلَّذِينَ يَدْعُونَ مِن دُونِ ٱللَّهِ فَيَسُبُّوا۟ ٱللَّهَ عَدْوًۢا بِغَيْرِ عِلْمٍۢ ۗ كَذَٰلِكَ زَيَّنَّا لِكُلِّ أُمَّةٍ عَمَلَهُمْ ثُمَّ إِلَىٰ رَبِّهِم مَّرْجِعُهُمْ فَيُنَبِّئُهُم بِمَا كَانُوا۟ يَعْمَلُونَ
അല്ലാഹുവിനു പുറമെ അവര് വിളിച്ച് പ്രാര്ത്ഥിക്കുന്നവരെ നിങ്ങള് ശകാരിക്കരുത്. അവര് വിവരമില്ലാതെ അതിക്രമമായി അല്ലാഹുവെ ശകാരിക്കാന് അത് കാരണമായേക്കും. അപ്രകാരം ഓരോ വിഭാഗത്തിനും അവരുടെ പ്രവര്ത്തനം നാം ഭംഗിയായി തോന്നിച്ചിരിക്കുന്നു. പിന്നീട് അവരുടെ രക്ഷിതാവിങ്കലേക്കാണ് അവരുടെ മടക്കം. അവര് ചെയ്തുകൊണ്ടിരുന്നതിനെപ്പറ്റിയെല്ലാം അപ്പോള് അവന് അവരെ അറിയിക്കുന്നതാണ്.
walā tasubbū alladhīna yadʿūna min dūni l-lahi fayasubbū l-laha ʿadwan bighayri ʿil'min kadhālika zayyannā likulli ummatin ʿamalahum thumma ilā rabbihim marjiʿuhum fayunabbi-uhum bimā kānū yaʿmalūna
Word by word
- وَلَا walā And (do) not
- تَسُبُّوا۟ tasubbū insult
- ٱلَّذِينَ alladhīna those whom
- يَدْعُونَ yadʿūna they invoke
- مِن min from
- دُونِ dūni other than
- ٱللَّهِ l-lahi Allah
- فَيَسُبُّوا۟ fayasubbū lest they insult
- ٱللَّهَ l-laha Allah
- عَدْوًۢا ʿadwan (in) enmity
- بِغَيْرِ bighayri without
- عِلْمٍۢ ۗ ʿil'min knowledge
- كَذَٰلِكَ kadhālika Thus
- زَيَّنَّا zayyannā We have made fair-seeming
- لِكُلِّ likulli to every
- أُمَّةٍ ummatin community
- عَمَلَهُمْ ʿamalahum their deed
- ثُمَّ thumma Then
- إِلَىٰ ilā to
- رَبِّهِم rabbihim their Lord
- مَّرْجِعُهُمْ marjiʿuhum (is) their return
- فَيُنَبِّئُهُم fayunabbi-uhum then He will inform them
- بِمَا bimā about what
- كَانُوا۟ kānū they used to
- يَعْمَلُونَ yaʿmalūna do
Tafsir · Ibn Kathir (Abridged)
The Prohibition of Insulting the False gods of the Disbelievers, So that they Do not Insult Allah
Allah prohibits His Messenger and the believers from insulting the false deities of the idolators, although there is a clear benefit in doing so. Insulting their deities will lead to a bigger evil than its benefit, for the idolators might retaliate by insulting the God of the believers, Allah, none has the right to be worshipped but He. `Ali bin Abi Talhah said that Ibn `Abbas commented on this Ayah 6:108; "They (disbelievers) said, `O Muhammad! You will stop insulting our gods, or we will insult your Lord.' Thereafter, Allah prohibited the believers from insulting the disbelievers' idols,
فَيَسُبُّواْ اللَّهَ عَدْواً بِغَيْرِ عِلْمٍ
(lest they insult Allah wrongfully without knowledge.)" `Abdur-Razzaq narrated that Ma`mar said that Qatadah said, "Muslims used to insult the idols of the disbelievers and the disbelievers would retaliate by insulting Allah wrongfully without knowledge. Allah revealed,
وَلاَ تَسُبُّواْ الَّذِينَ يَدْعُونَ مِن دُونِ اللَّهِ
(And insult not those whom they worship besides Allah.)" On this same subject -- abandoning what carries benefit to avert a greater evil - it is recorded in the Sahih that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said,
«مَلْعُونٌ مَنْ سَبَّ وَالِدَيْه»
(Cursed is he who insults his own parents!) They said, "O Allah's Messenger! And how would a man insult his own parents" He said,
«يَسُبُّ أَبَا الرَّجُلِ فَيَسُبُّ أَبَاهُ وَيَسُبُّ أُمَّهُ فَيَسُبُّ أُمَّه»
(He insults a man's father, and that man insults his father, and insults his mother and that man insults his mother.) Allah's statement,
كَذَلِكَ زَيَّنَّا لِكُلِّ أُمَّةٍ عَمَلَهُمْ
(Thus We have made fair seeming to each people its own doings;) means, as We made fair seeming to the idolators loving their idols and defending them, likewise We made fair seeming to every previous nation the misguidance they indulged in. Allah's is the most perfect proof, and the most complete wisdom in all that He wills and chooses.
ثُمَّ إِلَى رَبِّهِمْ مَّرْجِعُهُمْ
(then to their Lord is their return,) gathering and final destination,
فَيُنَبِّئُهُمْ بِمَا كَانُواْ يَعْمَلُونَ
(and He shall then inform them of all that they used to do.) He will compensate them for their deeds, good for good and evil for evil.