Surah 37. As-Saffat, Ayah 113
| وَبَارَكْنَا عَلَيْهِ وَعَلَىٰ إِسْحَاقَ ۚ وَمِنْ ذُرِّيَّتِهِمَا مُحْسِنٌ وَظَالِمٌ لِنَفْسِهِ مُبِينٌ |
| Transliteration | : | wa- baaraknaa calay -hi wa- calaa 'ish.aaq wa- min dhurreyah -himaa muh.sin wa- z.aalim li- nafs -hi muben |
| Pickthall | : | And We blessed him and Isaac. And of their seed are some who do good, and some who plainly wrong themselves. |
| Asad | : | and We blessed him and Isaac: but among the offspring of these two there were [des-tined] to be both doers of good and such as would glaringly sin against themselves.45 |
| Malik | : | We blessed him and Ishaq both. Among their progeny there are some who are righteous and some who are clearly wrong doing to their own souls. |
| Yusuf Ali | : | We blessed him and Isaac: but of their progeny are (some) that do right and (some) that obviously do wrong to their own souls. 4106 |
Note - 45I.e., commit evil. With this prediction the Qur'an
refutes, as in so many other places, the spurious
contention of the Jews that they are "the chosen people"
by virtue of their descent from Abraham, Isaac and Jacob,
and therefore a priori "assured", as it were, of God's
acceptance. In other words, God's blessing a prophet or a
saint does not, by itself, imply the conferment of any
special status on his descendants.
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Note - 4106So long as the Children of Israel upheld the righteous
banner of Allah, they enjoyed Allah's blessing, and their
history is a portion of sacred history. When they fell
from grace, they did not stop Allah's Plan: they injured
their own souls.
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I.e., commit evil. With this prediction the Qur'an refutes, as in so many other places, the spurious contention of the Jews that they are "the chosen people" by virtue of their descent from Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and therefore a priori "assured", as it were, of God's acceptance. In other words, God's blessing a prophet or a saint does not, by itself, imply the conferment of any special status on his descendants. |
