Surah An-Nahl
Quran 16:94
Read Quran 16:94 from Surah An-Nahl (The Bee) in Arabic, with Pickthall's English translation and the tafsir of as-Sa'di.
Quran verse
Qur'an 16:94
Make not your oaths a deceit between you, lest a foot should slip after being firmly planted and ye should taste evil forasmuch as ye debarred (men) from the way of Allah, and yours should be an awful doom.
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
- 94 of 128
- Revelation
- Meccan (revealed in Mecca)
- Reference
- 16:94
Tafsir as-Sa'di on Quran 16:94
Taysir al-Karim al-Rahman by Abd al-Rahman al-Sa'di (d. 1956), in the original Arabic.
أي: { وَلَا تَتَّخِذُوا أَيْمَانَكُمْ } وعهودكم ومواثيقكم تبعا لأهوائكم متى شئتم وفيتم بها، ومتى شئتم نقضتموها، فإنكم إذا فعلتم ذلك تزل أقدامكم بعد ثبوتها على الصراط المستقيم، { وَتَذُوقُوا السُّوءَ } أي: العذاب الذي يسوءكم ويحزنكم { بِمَا صَدَدْتُمْ عَنْ سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ } حيث ضللتم وأضللتم غيركم { وَلَكُمْ عَذَابٌ عَظِيمٌ } مضاعف.