Surah An-Nahl
Quran 16:74
Read Quran 16:74 from Surah An-Nahl (The Bee) in Arabic, with Pickthall's English translation and the tafsir of as-Sa'di.
Quran verse
Qur'an 16:74
فَلَا تَضْرِبُوا لِلَّهِ الْأَمْثَالَ ۚ إِنَّ اللَّهَ يَعْلَمُ وَأَنْتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ٧٤
So coin not similitudes for Allah. Lo! Allah knoweth; ye know not.
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
- 74 of 128
- Revelation
- Meccan (revealed in Mecca)
- Reference
- 16:74
Tafsir as-Sa'di on Quran 16:74
Taysir al-Karim al-Rahman by Abd al-Rahman al-Sa'di (d. 1956), in the original Arabic.
{ فَلَا تَضْرِبُوا لِلَّهِ الْأَمْثَالَ } المتضمنة للتسوية بينه وبين خلقه { إِنَّ اللَّهَ يَعْلَمُ وَأَنْتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ } فعلينا أن لا نقول عليه بلا علم وأن نسمع ما ضربه العليم من الأمثال