Translation of the Meanings of the Noble Qur'an - English Translation - Dr. Waleed Bleyhesh Omary * - Translations’ Index
Translation of the meanings
Ayah: (62) Surah: Al-Isrā’
قَالَ أَرَءَيۡتَكَ هَٰذَا ٱلَّذِي كَرَّمۡتَ عَلَيَّ لَئِنۡ أَخَّرۡتَنِ إِلَىٰ يَوۡمِ ٱلۡقِيَٰمَةِ لَأَحۡتَنِكَنَّ ذُرِّيَّتَهُۥٓ إِلَّا قَلِيلٗا
(62) He ˹also˺ said: “Do You see this whom you honoured over me, should you delay me until the Day of Judgement, I shall certainly chew up his offspring[3634], barring few!”
[3634] Aḥtanikanna (lit. shall chew up) means to completely overtake. Originally it comes from locusts chewing up (yaḥtaniku) the herbage leaving the land totally barren in their wake, or tying cattle by the jawbone (ḥanaka al-dābbah) so that they are easily led on totally at one’s will (cf. al-Naḥḥās, Maʿānī al-Qur’ān, Ibn Fāris, Maqāyīs al-Lughah, al-Iṣfahānī, al-Mufradāt).
This imagery so succinctly captures the essence of how far astray this greatest sworn enemy of humans is willing to go to, to sway the offspring of Adam and lead them far off course: “Indeed, Iblīs’ assumption about them has come true, so they ˹all˺ follow him, except a group of ˹true˺ Believers!” (34: 20)
He spares no effort to fulfil his life’s mission: “Allah Damned him, and he retorted: “I shall surely take to myself from Your servants my due share!” *“I shall surely mislead them, make them ever vainly wishful, and I shall command them to cut off the ears of livestock, and I shall command them to alter the creation of Allah!”” (4: 118-119); “He said: “Allow me respite ˹then˺ until the Day when they are resurrected”. *He said: “You are among those given respite”. *He said: “Then for Your misguiding of me, I shall certainly lie in wait for them on Your Straight Path!” *“Then I shall come to them from their fronts, backs, rights and lefts, and You shall not find most of them thankful” (7: 14-17); “He said: “Then my Lord grant me ˹time˺ until the Day when they are resurrected!” *He ˹Allah˺ said: “Then you are among the ones granted ˹time˺; *until the Day of the known time!” *He said: “My Lord! Then for Your misguiding of me, I shall make certainly ˹alluringly˺ adorned for them ˹life˺ on Earth and shall misguide them all, *except Your servants among them; the ones made ˹truly˺ devout!” (15: 36-40)
This imagery so succinctly captures the essence of how far astray this greatest sworn enemy of humans is willing to go to, to sway the offspring of Adam and lead them far off course: “Indeed, Iblīs’ assumption about them has come true, so they ˹all˺ follow him, except a group of ˹true˺ Believers!” (34: 20)
He spares no effort to fulfil his life’s mission: “Allah Damned him, and he retorted: “I shall surely take to myself from Your servants my due share!” *“I shall surely mislead them, make them ever vainly wishful, and I shall command them to cut off the ears of livestock, and I shall command them to alter the creation of Allah!”” (4: 118-119); “He said: “Allow me respite ˹then˺ until the Day when they are resurrected”. *He said: “You are among those given respite”. *He said: “Then for Your misguiding of me, I shall certainly lie in wait for them on Your Straight Path!” *“Then I shall come to them from their fronts, backs, rights and lefts, and You shall not find most of them thankful” (7: 14-17); “He said: “Then my Lord grant me ˹time˺ until the Day when they are resurrected!” *He ˹Allah˺ said: “Then you are among the ones granted ˹time˺; *until the Day of the known time!” *He said: “My Lord! Then for Your misguiding of me, I shall make certainly ˹alluringly˺ adorned for them ˹life˺ on Earth and shall misguide them all, *except Your servants among them; the ones made ˹truly˺ devout!” (15: 36-40)
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Translation of the meanings
Ayah: (62) Surah: Al-Isrā’
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.