Surah 6. Al-An'am, Ayah 150
| قُلْ هَلُمَّ شُهَدَاءَكُمُ الَّذِينَ يَشْهَدُونَ أَنَّ اللَّهَ حَرَّمَ هَٰذَا ۖ فَإِنْ شَهِدُوا فَلَا تَشْهَدْ مَعَهُمْ ۚ وَلَا تَتَّبِعْ أَهْوَاءَ الَّذِينَ كَذَّبُوا بِآيَاتِنَا وَالَّذِينَ لَا يُؤْمِنُونَ بِالْآخِرَةِ وَهُمْ بِرَبِّهِمْ يَعْدِلُونَ |
| Transliteration | : | qul halumma shuhadaa' -kum 'alladhena yashhadon 'anna 'allaah h.arrama haadhaa fa- 'in shahido fa- laa tashhad maca -hum wa- laa tattabic ahwaa' 'alladhena kadhdhabo bi- 'aayaat -naa wa- 'alladhena laa yu'minon bi- al- 'aakhirah wa- hum bi- rabb -him yacdilon |
| Pickthall | : | Say: Come, bring your witnesses who can bear witness that Allah forbade (all) this. And if they bear witness, do not thou bear witness with them. Follow thou not the whims of those who deny Our revelations, those who believe not in the Hereafter and deem (others) equal with their Lord. |
| Asad | : | Say: "Bring forward your witnesses who could bear witness that God has forbidden [all] this!"144 - and if they bear witness [falsely], do not bear witness with them; and do not follow the errant views of those who have given the lie to Our messages, nor of those who believe not in the life to come, and who regard other powers as their Sustainer's equals!145 |
| Malik | : | Say: "Bring your witnesses to prove that Allah did forbid so and so." Even if they so testify, do not testify with them, nor yield to the wishes of those who deny Our revelations, disbelieve in the hereafter, and set up others as equals with their Rabb. |
| Yusuf Ali | : | Say: "Bring forward your witnesses to prove that Allah did forbid so and so." If they bring such witnesses be not thou amongst them: nor follow thou the vain desires of such as treat Our Signs as falsehoods and such as believe not in the Hereafter: for they hold others as equal with their Guardian-Lord. 974 975 |
Note - 144A reference to the arbitrary prohibitions mentioned in
the preceding passages.
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Note - 145Lit., "make [others] equal to their Sustainer": i.e.,
attribute divine or almost-divine qualities to certain
ill-defined natural powers - e.g., believe in
"spontaneous" creative evolution, or in a "self-created"
universe, or in a mysterious, impersonal elan vital that
supposedly underlies all existence, etc.
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Note - 974The Pagan superstitions were of course baseless, and in
many cases harmful and debasing. If God's name was taken
as supporting them, no true man of God could be taken in,
or join in support simply because God's name was taken in
vain.
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Note - 975Cf. vi. 1. God, who created and who cherishes and cares
for all, should have the first claim on our attention.
Those who set up false gods fail to understand God's true
governance of their own true destiny.
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A reference to the arbitrary prohibitions mentioned in the preceding passages. |
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Lit., "make [others] equal to their Sustainer": i.e., attribute divine or almost-divine qualities to certain ill-defined natural powers - e.g., believe in "spontaneous" creative evolution, or in a "self-created" universe, or in a mysterious, impersonal elan vital that supposedly underlies all existence, etc. |
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The Pagan superstitions were of course baseless, and in many cases harmful and debasing. If God's name was taken as supporting them, no true man of God could be taken in, or join in support simply because God's name was taken in vain. |
