Surah 34. Saba, Ayah 54
| وَحِيلَ بَيْنَهُمْ وَبَيْنَ مَا يَشْتَهُونَ كَمَا فُعِلَ بِأَشْيَاعِهِمْ مِنْ قَبْلُ ۚ إِنَّهُمْ كَانُوا فِي شَكٍّ مُرِيبٍ |
| Transliteration | : | wa- h.ela bayna -hum wa- bayna maa yashtahon ka-maa fucila bi- ashyaac -him min qablu 'inna -hum kaano fe shakk mureb |
| Pickthall | : | And a gulf is set between them and that which they desire, as was done for people of their kind of old. Lo! they were in hopeless doubt. |
| Asad | : | And so, a barrier will be set between them and all that they had [ever] desired,66 as will be done to such of their kind as lived before their time: for, behold, they [too] were lost in doubt amounting to suspicion67 |
| Malik | : | A barrier will be placed between them and what they desired to have as was done with the similar people before them; for they were indeed involved in a misleading suspicion. |
| Yusuf Ali | : | And between them and their desires is placed a barrier as was done in the past with their partisans: for they were indeed in suspicious (disquieting) doubt. 3866 3867 3868 |
Note - 66Thus, the impossibility of attaining to the fulfilment of
any of their desires - whether positive or negative -
sums up, as it were, the suffering of the damned in the
life to come.
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Note - 67I.e., a suspicion that all moral postulates were but
meant to deprive them of what they considered to be the
"legitimate advantages" of life in this world.
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Note - 3866What they desire is to suppress Truth and to indulge in
the satisfaction of their own evil, selfish motives. They
will be baulked in both, and that itself will be their
anguish and punishment. That has always been the law in
the eternal struggle between Right and Wrong. All
partisans of such narrow cliques have always suffered the
same fate.
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Note - 3867Note that verses 51-54 are a powerful description of the
conflict between right and wrong, and may be understood
in many meanings. (1) The description applies to the
position in the final Hereafter, as compared with the
position in this life. (2) It applies to the position of
triumphant Islam in Madinah and later as compared with
the position of persecuted Islam in its early days in
Makkah. (3) It applies to the reversal of the position of
right and wrong at various phases of the world's history,
or of (4) individual history.
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Note - 3868Cf. xiv. 9, and see n. 1884.
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Thus, the impossibility of attaining to the fulfilment of any of their desires - whether positive or negative - sums up, as it were, the suffering of the damned in the life to come. |
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What they desire is to suppress Truth and to indulge in the satisfaction of their own evil, selfish motives. They will be baulked in both, and that itself will be their anguish and punishment. That has always been the law in the eternal struggle between Right and Wrong. All partisans of such narrow cliques have always suffered the same fate. |
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Note that verses 51-54 are a powerful description of the conflict between right and wrong, and may be understood in many meanings. (1) The description applies to the position in the final Hereafter, as compared with the position in this life. (2) It applies to the position of triumphant Islam in Madinah and later as compared with the position of persecuted Islam in its early days in Makkah. (3) It applies to the reversal of the position of right and wrong at various phases of the world's history, or of (4) individual history. |
