Surah 7. Al-A'raf, Ayah 88
| ۞ قَالَ الْمَلَأُ الَّذِينَ اسْتَكْبَرُوا مِنْ قَوْمِهِ لَنُخْرِجَنَّكَ يَا شُعَيْبُ وَالَّذِينَ آمَنُوا مَعَكَ مِنْ قَرْيَتِنَا أَوْ لَتَعُودُنَّ فِي مِلَّتِنَا ۚ قَالَ أَوَلَوْ كُنَّا كَارِهِينَ |
| Transliteration | : | qaala al- mala' 'alladhena istakbaro min qawm -hi la- nukhrijanna -ka yaa shucayb wa- 'alladhena 'aamano maca -ka min qaryah -naa 'aw la- tacodunna fe millah -naa qaala 'a- wa- law kunnaa kaarihen |
| Pickthall | : | The chieftains of his people, who were scornful, said: Surely we will drive thee out, O Shueyb, and those who believe with thee, from our township, unless ye return to our religion. He said : Even though we hate it? |
| Asad | : | Said the great ones among his people, who gloried in their arrogance: "Most certainly, O Shu'ayb, we shall expel thee and thy fellow-believers from our land, unless you indeed return to our ways!" Said [Shu'ayb]: "Why, even though we abhor [them]? |
| Malik | : | The arrogant proud leaders of his nation said: "O Shuaib! We shall certainly drive you and your fellow believers out of our town or you will have to return back to our national ways." He replied: "What! Will you make us turn back against our will? |
| Yusuf Ali | : | The leaders the arrogant party among his people said: "O Shu`aib! we shall certainly drive thee out of our city (thee) and those who believe with thee: or else ye (thou and they) shall have to return to our ways and religion." He said: "what! even though we do detest (them)? 1058 |
Note - 1058The gentle, all-persuasive arguments of Shuaib fell on
hard hearts. Their only reply was: "Turn him out!-him and
his people." When courtesy and a plea for toleration are
pitted against bigotry, what room is there for logic? But
bigotry and unrighteousness havc their own crooked ways
of pretending to be tolerant. "O yes!" they said, "we are
very tolerant and long-suffering! But we are for our
country and religion. Come back to the ways of our
fathers, and we shall graciously forgive you!" "Ways of
their fathers!"- they meant injustice and oppression,
high-handedness to the poor and the weak, fraud under
cover of religion, and so on! Perhaps the righteous were
the poor and the weak. Were they likely to love such
ways? Perhaps there was implied a bribe as well as a
threat. "If you come back and wink at our iniquities, you
shall have scraps of prosperity thrown at you. If not,
out you go in disgrace!"
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The gentle, all-persuasive arguments of Shuaib fell on hard hearts. Their only reply was: "Turn him out!-him and his people." When courtesy and a plea for toleration are pitted against bigotry, what room is there for logic? But bigotry and unrighteousness havc their own crooked ways of pretending to be tolerant. "O yes!" they said, "we are very tolerant and long-suffering! But we are for our country and religion. Come back to the ways of our fathers, and we shall graciously forgive you!" "Ways of their fathers!"- they meant injustice and oppression, high-handedness to the poor and the weak, fraud under cover of religion, and so on! Perhaps the righteous were the poor and the weak. Were they likely to love such ways? Perhaps there was implied a bribe as well as a threat. "If you come back and wink at our iniquities, you shall have scraps of prosperity thrown at you. If not, out you go in disgrace!" |
