Surah 2. Al-Baqara, Ayah 24
| فَإِنْ لَمْ تَفْعَلُوا وَلَنْ تَفْعَلُوا فَاتَّقُوا النَّارَ الَّتِي وَقُودُهَا النَّاسُ وَالْحِجَارَةُ ۖ أُعِدَّتْ لِلْكَافِرِينَ |
| Transliteration | : | fa- 'in lam tafcalo wa- lan tafcalo fa- ittaqo an- naar 'allate waqod -haa an- naas wa- al- h.ijaarah uciddat li- al- kaafiren |
| Pickthall | : | And if ye do it not and ye can never do it--then guard yourselves against the fire prepared for disbelievers, whose fuel is of men and stones. |
| Asad | : | And if you cannot do it - and most certainly you cannot do it - then be conscious of the fire whose fuel is human beings and stones16 which awaits all who deny the truth! |
| Malik | : | But if you are unable to do so, and you can never do so, then fear the Hell fire, whose fuel is men and stones which is prepared for the unbelievers. |
| Yusuf Ali | : | But if ye cannot and of a surety ye cannot then fear the fire whose fuel is Men and Stones which is prepared for those who reject Faith. 43 |
Note - 16This evidently denotes all objects of worship to which
men turn instead of God - their powerlessness and
inefficacy being symbolized by the lifelessness of stones
- while the expression "human beings" stands here for
human actions deviating from the way of truth (cf. Manar
I, 197): the remembrance of all of which is bound to
increase the sinner's suffering in the hereafter,
referred to in the Qur'an as "hell".
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Note - 43If by your own efforts you cannot match the spiritual
light, and yet contumaciously reject spiritual Faith,
then there will be a fire in your souls, the Punishment
that burns up all your cherished idols. Perhaps you will
at least fear this penalty, which your self-loving souls
can understand. This fire consumes both the worshippers
of the False and the Idols which they falsely worship.
Can this bring them to their senses? Its power is not
only over the feeling, palpitating heart of man (heart in
a spiritual sense, as it persists long after the physical
heart), but he cannot escape from it even if he imagines
himself reduced to inertness like sticks or stones; for
it is all-devouring.
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This evidently denotes all objects of worship to which men turn instead of God - their powerlessness and inefficacy being symbolized by the lifelessness of stones - while the expression "human beings" stands here for human actions deviating from the way of truth (cf. Manar I, 197): the remembrance of all of which is bound to increase the sinner's suffering in the hereafter, referred to in the Qur'an as "hell". |
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If by your own efforts you cannot match the spiritual light, and yet contumaciously reject spiritual Faith, then there will be a fire in your souls, the Punishment that burns up all your cherished idols. Perhaps you will at least fear this penalty, which your self-loving souls can understand. This fire consumes both the worshippers of the False and the Idols which they falsely worship. Can this bring them to their senses? Its power is not only over the feeling, palpitating heart of man (heart in a spiritual sense, as it persists long after the physical heart), but he cannot escape from it even if he imagines himself reduced to inertness like sticks or stones; for it is all-devouring. |
