Surah An-Nahl
Quran 16:56
Read Quran 16:56 from Surah An-Nahl (The Bee) in Arabic, with Pickthall's English translation and the tafsir of as-Sa'di.
Quran verse
Qur'an 16:56
And they assign a portion of that which We have given them unto what they know not. By Allah! but ye will indeed be asked concerning (all) that ye used to invent.
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
- 56 of 128
- Revelation
- Meccan (revealed in Mecca)
- Reference
- 16:56
Tafsir as-Sa'di on Quran 16:56
Taysir al-Karim al-Rahman by Abd al-Rahman al-Sa'di (d. 1956), in the original Arabic.
يخبر تعالى عن جهل المشركين وظلمهم وافترائهم على الله الكذب، وأنهم يجعلون لأصنامهم التي لا تعلم ولا تنفع ولا تضر -نصيبا مما رزقهم الله وأنعم به عليهم، فاستعانوا برزقه على الشرك به، وتقربوا به إلى أصنام منحوتة، كما قال تعالى: { وَجَعَلُوا لِلَّهِ مِمَّا ذَرَأَ مِنَ الْحَرْثِ وَالْأَنْعَامِ نَصِيبًا فَقَالُوا هَذَا لِلَّهِ بِزَعْمِهِمْ وَهَذَا لِشُرَكَائِنَا فَمَا كَانَ لِشُرَكَائِهِمْ فَلَا يَصِلُ إِلَى اللَّهِ }