Surah 23. Al-Muminun, Ayah 90
| بَلْ أَتَيْنَاهُمْ بِالْحَقِّ وَإِنَّهُمْ لَكَاذِبُونَ |
| Transliteration | : | bal 'ataynaa -hum bi- al- h.aqq wa- 'inna -hum la- kaadhibon |
| Pickthall | : | Nay, but We have brought them the Truth, and lo! they are liars. |
| Asad | : | Nay, We have conveyed unto them the truth: and yet, behold, they are intent on Iying [to them-selves]!51 |
| Malik | : | The fact of the matter is that We have brought them the Truth, and undoubtedly these people are liars. |
| Yusuf Ali | : | We have sent them the Truth: but they indeed practice Falsehood! |
Note - 51Lit., "they are indeed liars" - i.e., they deceive
themselves by asserting that they believe in God and, at
the same time, rejecting the idea of a life after death,
which - in view of the fact that many wrongdoers prosper
in this world while many righteous lead a life of
suffering - is insolubly bound up with the concept of
divine justice. Apart from this, a denial of the
possibility of resurrection implies a doubt as to God’s
unlimited power and, thus, of His Godhead in the true
sense of this concept. This latter doubt often finds its
expression in the mystic belief in a multiplicity of
divine powers: and it is to this erroneous belief that
the next verse alludes.
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Lit., "they are indeed liars" - i.e., they deceive themselves by asserting that they believe in God and, at the same time, rejecting the idea of a life after death, which - in view of the fact that many wrongdoers prosper in this world while many righteous lead a life of suffering - is insolubly bound up with the concept of divine justice. Apart from this, a denial of the possibility of resurrection implies a doubt as to God’s unlimited power and, thus, of His Godhead in the true sense of this concept. This latter doubt often finds its expression in the mystic belief in a multiplicity of divine powers: and it is to this erroneous belief that the next verse alludes. |
