Surah 39. Az-Zumar, Ayah 32
| ۞ فَمَنْ أَظْلَمُ مِمَّنْ كَذَبَ عَلَى اللَّهِ وَكَذَّبَ بِالصِّدْقِ إِذْ جَاءَهُ ۚ أَلَيْسَ فِي جَهَنَّمَ مَثْوًى لِلْكَافِرِينَ |
| Transliteration | : | fa- man az.lam min man kadhaba calaa 'allaah wa- kadhdhaba bi- as.- s.idq 'idh jaa'a -hu 'a- laysa fe jahannam mathwa(n) li- al- kaafiren |
| Pickthall | : | And who doth greater wrong than he who telleth a lie against Allah, and denieth the truth when it reacheth him? Will not the home of disbelievers be in hell? |
| Asad | : | And who could be more wicked than he who invents lies about God,37 and gives the lie to the truth as soon as it has been placed before him? Is not hell the [proper] abode for all who deny the truth?38 |
| Malik | : | Who could be more wicked than the one who invents a lie against Allah and rejects the truth when it comes to him? Is there not an abode in hell for such unbelievers? |
| Yusuf Ali | : | Who then doth more wrong than one who utters a lie concerning Allah and rejects the truth when it comes to him? Is there not in Hell an abode for blasphemers? 4291 4292 |
Note - 37In this instance, the "inventing of lies about God"
alludes to the attribution of a share in His divinity to
anyone or anything beside Him, whether it be a belief in
a plurality of deities, or in an imaginary "incarnation"
of God in human form, or in saints allegedly endowed with
semi-divine powers.
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Note - 38Lit., "Is not in hell an abode ...", etc.: a rhetorical
question indicating, firstly, that otherworldly suffering
is the unavoidable destiny - symbolically, "an abode" -
of all such sinners and, secondly, that in the concept
and picture of "hell" we are given an allegory of that
self-caused suffering.
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Note - 4291When the creature deliberately adopts and utters
falsehoods against his own Creator, in spite of the Truth
being brought, as it were, to his very door by Allah's
Signs, what offence can we imagine more heinous than
this? In Christian theology this is the blasphemy
"against the Holy Ghost" spoken of in Matt. xii. 31-32:
"whosoever speaketh a word against the Son of man",
(Christ), "it shall be forgiven him; but whosoever
speaketh against the Holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiven
him, neither in this world, neither in the world to
come".
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Note - 4292Cf. iii. 151; xvi. 29.
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In this instance, the "inventing of lies about God" alludes to the attribution of a share in His divinity to anyone or anything beside Him, whether it be a belief in a plurality of deities, or in an imaginary "incarnation" of God in human form, or in saints allegedly endowed with semi-divine powers. |
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Lit., "Is not in hell an abode ...", etc.: a rhetorical question indicating, firstly, that otherworldly suffering is the unavoidable destiny - symbolically, "an abode" - of all such sinners and, secondly, that in the concept and picture of "hell" we are given an allegory of that self-caused suffering. |
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When the creature deliberately adopts and utters falsehoods against his own Creator, in spite of the Truth being brought, as it were, to his very door by Allah's Signs, what offence can we imagine more heinous than this? In Christian theology this is the blasphemy "against the Holy Ghost" spoken of in Matt. xii. 31-32: "whosoever speaketh a word against the Son of man", (Christ), "it shall be forgiven him; but whosoever speaketh against the Holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world, neither in the world to come". |
