Surah 2. Al-Baqara, Ayah 176
| ذَٰلِكَ بِأَنَّ اللَّهَ نَزَّلَ الْكِتَابَ بِالْحَقِّ ۗ وَإِنَّ الَّذِينَ اخْتَلَفُوا فِي الْكِتَابِ لَفِي شِقَاقٍ بَعِيدٍ |
| Transliteration | : | dhaalika bi- 'anna 'allaah nazzala al- kitaab bi- al- h.aqq wa- 'inna 'alladhena ikhtalafo fe al- kitaab la- fe shiqaaq baced |
| Pickthall | : | That is because Allah hath revealed the Scripture with the truth. Lo! those who find (a cause of) disagreement in the Scripture are in open schism. |
| Asad | : | Thus it is: since it is God who bestows141 the divine writ from on high, setting forth the truth, all those who set their own views against the divine writ142 are, verily, most deeply in the wrong. |
| Malik | : | Their doom is because Allah has revealed the Book with the truth; surely those who seek causes of dispute in the Book (The Qur'an) are in extreme schism (divergence). |
| Yusuf Ali | : | (Their doom is) because Allah sent down the Book in truth but those who seek causes of dispute in the Book are in a schism far (from the purpose). 176 |
Note - 141Lit., "has been bestowing". Since the form nazzala
implies gradualness and continuity in the process of
revelation, it can best be rendered by the use of the
present tense.
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Note - 142Lit., "who hold discordant views about the divine writ" -
i.e., either suppressing or rejecting parts of it, or
denying its divine origin altogether (Razi).
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Note - 176From the mere physical regulation we are at once lifted
up into the sphere of morals and faith. For the one acts
and reacts on the other. If we are constantly carping at
wholesome regulations, we shall do nothing but cause
division and schisms among the people, and ordered
society would tend to break up.
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Lit., "has been bestowing". Since the form nazzala implies gradualness and continuity in the process of revelation, it can best be rendered by the use of the present tense. |
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From the mere physical regulation we are at once lifted up into the sphere of morals and faith. For the one acts and reacts on the other. If we are constantly carping at wholesome regulations, we shall do nothing but cause division and schisms among the people, and ordered society would tend to break up. |
