Surah 42. Ash-Shura, Ayah 50
| أَوْ يُزَوِّجُهُمْ ذُكْرَانًا وَإِنَاثًا ۖ وَيَجْعَلُ مَنْ يَشَاءُ عَقِيمًا ۚ إِنَّهُ عَلِيمٌ قَدِيرٌ |
| Transliteration | : | 'aw yuzawwij -hum dhukraan(an) wa- 'inaath(an) wa- yajcal man yashaa' caqem(an) 'inna -hu calem qader |
| Pickthall | : | Or He mingleth them, males and females, and He maketh barren whom He will. Lo! He is Knower, Powerful. |
| Asad | : | or He gives both male and female [to whomever He wills], and causes to be barren whomever He wills: for, verily He is all-knowing, infinite in His power.51 |
| Malik | : | To some He gives both sons and daughters, and makes barren whom He will; surely He is All-knowledgeable, All-Powerful. |
| Yusuf Ali | : | Or He bestows both males and females and He leaves barren whom He will: for He is Full of knowledge and power. 4596 |
Note - 51The purport of this passage is a re-affirmation of the
fact that whatever happens to man is an outcome of God's
unfathomable will: a fact which is illustrated in the
sequence by the most common, recurrent phenomenon in
man's life - the unpredictability of male or female
births, as well as of barrenness: and so, too, God's
bestowal of worldly happiness and unhappiness cannot be
measured or predicted in terms of what man may regard as
his "due".
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Note - 4596To parents themselves it is a mystery why a male or
female child is given at any birth, or how the balance of
the two sexes is made up in a family or in large groups
of mankind, or why in some cases the womb is barren and
the would be parents are denied the joys and
responsibilities of parenthood. But each individual human
soul is precious in the Plan of Allah, and all these
variations, besides their reactions on parents and on
society, have a purpose to fulfil in the large Plan of
Allah.
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The purport of this passage is a re-affirmation of the fact that whatever happens to man is an outcome of God's unfathomable will: a fact which is illustrated in the sequence by the most common, recurrent phenomenon in man's life - the unpredictability of male or female births, as well as of barrenness: and so, too, God's bestowal of worldly happiness and unhappiness cannot be measured or predicted in terms of what man may regard as his "due". |
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To parents themselves it is a mystery why a male or female child is given at any birth, or how the balance of the two sexes is made up in a family or in large groups of mankind, or why in some cases the womb is barren and the would be parents are denied the joys and responsibilities of parenthood. But each individual human soul is precious in the Plan of Allah, and all these variations, besides their reactions on parents and on society, have a purpose to fulfil in the large Plan of Allah. |
