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Surah An-Nahl

Quran 16:93

Read Quran 16:93 from Surah An-Nahl (The Bee) in Arabic, with Pickthall's English translation and the tafsir of as-Sa'di.

Quran verse

Qur'an 16:93

وَلَوْ شَاءَ اللَّهُ لَجَعَلَكُمْ أُمَّةً وَاحِدَةً وَلَٰكِنْ يُضِلُّ مَنْ يَشَاءُ وَيَهْدِي مَنْ يَشَاءُ ۚ وَلَتُسْأَلُنَّ عَمَّا كُنْتُمْ تَعْمَلُونَ٩٣

Had Allah willed He could have made you (all) one nation, but He sendeth whom He will astray and guideth whom He will, and ye will indeed be asked of what ye used to do.

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
93 of 128
Revelation
Meccan (revealed in Mecca)
Reference
16:93

Tafsir as-Sa'di on Quran 16:93

Taysir al-Karim al-Rahman by Abd al-Rahman al-Sa'di (d. 1956), in the original Arabic.

أي: { لَوْ شَاءَ اللَّهُ } لجمع الناس على الهدى وجعلهم { أُمَّةً وَاحِدَةً } ولكنه تعالى المنفرد بالهداية والإضلال، وهدايته وإضلاله من أفعاله التابعة لعلمه وحكمته، يعطي الهداية من يستحقها فضلا، ويمنعها من لا يستحقها عدلا. { وَلَتُسْأَلُنَّ عَمَّا كُنْتُمْ تَعْمَلُونَ } من خير وشر فيجازيكم عليها أتم الجزاء وأعدله.

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