Sure 6 Al-An'aam — Aya 116
وَإِن تُطِعْ أَكْثَرَ مَن فِى ٱلْأَرْضِ يُضِلُّوكَ عَن سَبِيلِ ٱللَّهِ ۚ إِن يَتَّبِعُونَ إِلَّا ٱلظَّنَّ وَإِنْ هُمْ إِلَّا يَخْرُصُونَ
Und wenn du den meisten derer auf der Erde gehorchst, werden sie dich von Allahs Weg irreführen. Sie folgen nur Vermutungen, und sie raten nur
wa-in tuṭiʿ akthara man fī l-arḍi yuḍillūka ʿan sabīli l-lahi in yattabiʿūna illā l-ẓana wa-in hum illā yakhruṣūna
Wort für Wort
- 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,
(And indeed most of the men of old went astray before them.) 37:71 and,
(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.
(They follow nothing but conjecture, and they do nothing but lie.) Thus, they fulfill Allah's decree and decision concerning them,
(It is He Who knows best who strays from His way.) and facilitates that for him,
(And He knows best the rightly guided.) He facilitates that for them, all of them are facilitated for what He created them.