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Surah 6 Al-An'aam — Ayah 116

سُورَةُ الأَنۡعَامِ · Meccan · Yakub Ibn Nugman

116

وَإِن تُطِعْ أَكْثَرَ مَن فِى ٱلْأَرْضِ يُضِلُّوكَ عَن سَبِيلِ ٱللَّهِ ۚ إِن يَتَّبِعُونَ إِلَّا ٱلظَّنَّ وَإِنْ هُمْ إِلَّا يَخْرُصُونَ

Ий Мухәммәд г-м һәм аның өммәте, әгәр җир өстендәге кешеләрнең күбрәгенә иярсәң, я аларга итагать итсәң ул чагында алар сине Аллаһ юлыннан адаштырырлар, чөнки күпчелек хакка иярми, бәлки сукыр занга, үлчәүсез фикергә иярә һәм алар һичкем түгелләр, фәкать хакны ялганлаучылар.

wa-in tuṭiʿ akthara man fī l-arḍi yuḍillūka ʿan sabīli l-lahi in yattabiʿūna illā l-ẓana wa-in hum illā yakhruṣūna

Word by word

  • وَإِن wa-in And if
  • تُطِعْ tuṭiʿ you obey
  • أَكْثَرَ akthara most
  • مَن man of
  • فِى fī (those) in
  • ٱلْأَرْضِ l-arḍi the earth
  • يُضِلُّوكَ yuḍillūka they will mislead you
  • عَن ʿan from
  • سَبِيلِ sabīli (the) way
  • ٱللَّهِ ۚ l-lahi (of) Allah
  • إِن in Not
  • يَتَّبِعُونَ yattabiʿūna they follow
  • إِلَّا illā except
  • ٱلظَّنَّ l-ẓana [the] assumption
  • وَإِنْ wa-in and not
  • هُمْ hum they (do)
  • إِلَّا illā except
  • يَخْرُصُونَ yakhruṣūna guess
Tafsir · Ibn Kathir (Abridged)

Most People are Misguided

Allah states that most of the people of the earth, are misguided. Allah said in other Ayat,

وَلَقَدْ ضَلَّ قَبْلَهُمْ أَكْثَرُ الاٌّوَّلِينَ

(And indeed most of the men of old went astray before them.) 37:71 and,

وَمَآ أَكْثَرُ النَّاسِ وَلَوْ حَرَصْتَ بِمُؤْمِنِينَ

(And most of mankind will not believe even if you eagerly desire it.)12:103 They are misguided, yet they have doubts about their way, and they rely on wishful thinking and delusions.

إِن يَتَّبِعُونَ إِلاَّ الظَّنَّ وَإِنْ هُمْ إِلاَّ يَخْرُصُونَ

(They follow nothing but conjecture, and they do nothing but lie.) Thus, they fulfill Allah's decree and decision concerning them,

هُوَ أَعْلَمُ مَن يَضِلُّ عَن سَبِيلِهِ

(It is He Who knows best who strays from His way.) and facilitates that for him,

وَهُوَ أَعْلَمُ بِالْمُهْتَدِينَ

(And He knows best the rightly guided.) He facilitates that for them, all of them are facilitated for what He created them.

فَكُلُواْ مِمَّا ذُكِرَ اسْمُ اللَّهِ عَلَيْهِ إِن كُنتُم بِآيَـتِهِ مُؤْمِنِينَ