Surah An-Nahl
Quran 16:20
Read Quran 16:20 from Surah An-Nahl (The Bee) in Arabic, with Pickthall's English translation and the tafsir of as-Sa'di.
Quran verse
Qur'an 16:20
Those unto whom they cry beside Allah created naught, but are themselves created.
English translation by Marmaduke Pickthall, The Meaning of the Glorious Koran (1930), in the public domain. Digital text from Tanzil.net.
- Surah
- 16. An-Nahl (The Bee)
- Ayah
- 20 of 128
- Revelation
- Meccan (revealed in Mecca)
- Reference
- 16:20
Tafsir as-Sa'di on Quran 16:20
Taysir al-Karim al-Rahman by Abd al-Rahman al-Sa'di (d. 1956), in the original Arabic. This commentary explains ayahs 16:19-20 together.
تفسير الآيتين 19 و20 :ـ وكما أن رحمته واسعة وجوده عميم ومغفرته شاملة للعباد فعلمه محيط بهم، { يَعْلَمُ مَا تُسِرُّونَ وَمَا تُعْلِنُونَ } بخلاف من عبد من دونه، فإنهم { لَا يَخْلُقُونَ شَيْئًا } قليلا ولا كثيرا { وَهُمْ يُخْلَقُونَ } فكيف يخلقون شيئا مع افتقارهم في إيجادهم إلى الله تعالى؟\"