Translation of the Meanings of the Noble Qur'an - English Translation - Dr. Waleed Bleyhesh Omary * - Translations’ Index
Translation of the meanings Ayah: (74) Surah: An-Nahl
فَلَا تَضۡرِبُواْ لِلَّهِ ٱلۡأَمۡثَالَۚ إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ يَعۡلَمُ وَأَنتُمۡ لَا تَعۡلَمُونَ
[3363] “Nothing is like Him; He is the All-Hearing, All-Seeing” (42: 11).
[3364] God Almighty Knows the Truth of things; that He has no Associate, that nothing is like Him and none of the deeds of people is hidden from Him. The Associators meanwhile do not fully realize His Greatness and through their ignorance they fall into Association claiming a likeness between Him and their idols (cf. al-Ṭabarī, Ibn Kathīr, Abū al-Suʿūd, al-Tafsīr al-Mukhtaṣar).
Yaḍribu mathalan carries both meanings of “pose as similar”, as in claiming that something is a representation of something else (their gods as similar to God Almighty) or to “pose as example”, as in to give examples that illustrate analogies through parables.
[3364] God Almighty Knows the Truth of things; that He has no Associate, that nothing is like Him and none of the deeds of people is hidden from Him. The Associators meanwhile do not fully realize His Greatness and through their ignorance they fall into Association claiming a likeness between Him and their idols (cf. al-Ṭabarī, Ibn Kathīr, Abū al-Suʿūd, al-Tafsīr al-Mukhtaṣar).
Yaḍribu mathalan carries both meanings of “pose as similar”, as in claiming that something is a representation of something else (their gods as similar to God Almighty) or to “pose as example”, as in to give examples that illustrate analogies through parables.
Arabic explanations of the Qur’an:
Translation of the meanings Ayah: (74) Surah: An-Nahl
Translation of the Meanings of the Noble Qur'an - English Translation - Dr. Waleed Bleyhesh Omary - Translations’ Index
Translation of the meanings of the Noble Qur’an into English - in progress - translated by Dr. Walid Bleihesh Al-Omari.