Translation of the Meanings of the Noble Qur'an - English Translation - Abdullah Hasan Yaqoub * - Translations’ Index
فَمَا كَانَ جَوَابَ قَوۡمِهِۦٓ إِلَّآ أَن قَالُواْ ٱقۡتُلُوهُ أَوۡ حَرِّقُوهُ فَأَنجَىٰهُ ٱللَّهُ مِنَ ٱلنَّارِۚ إِنَّ فِي ذَٰلِكَ لَأٓيَٰتٖ لِّقَوۡمٖ يُؤۡمِنُونَ
24. So the answer of his people was not except that they said: "Kill him or burn him." Then Allāh delivered him from the fire. In this there are certainly signs for a people who believe.
Arabic explanations of the Qur’an:
وَقَالَ إِنَّمَا ٱتَّخَذۡتُم مِّن دُونِ ٱللَّهِ أَوۡثَٰنٗا مَّوَدَّةَ بَيۡنِكُمۡ فِي ٱلۡحَيَوٰةِ ٱلدُّنۡيَاۖ ثُمَّ يَوۡمَ ٱلۡقِيَٰمَةِ يَكۡفُرُ بَعۡضُكُم بِبَعۡضٖ وَيَلۡعَنُ بَعۡضُكُم بَعۡضٗا وَمَأۡوَىٰكُمُ ٱلنَّارُ وَمَا لَكُم مِّن نَّٰصِرِينَ
25. And (Abraham) said 'to his people': "Indeed, you only have taken (for worship) idols (graven images) instead of Allāh, out of mutual love between yourselves in this worldly life¹², then on the Day of Resurrection you will deny one another, curse one another, your abode is the eternal Fire, and you shall not have any helpers (intercessors)."
12. Worshipping an idol in every people was the secret of unity between them and for every people there was a chosen idol. Worshipping idols also had created a relation between them and their ancestors and they often pretended by the same pretext that those things were the traces of their ancestors which they followed. Besides, the chiefs of the pagans invited their followers to worship idols and this was a ring of join between ‘the chiefs’ and their ‘followers’. But on the Day of the Resurrection, all these chaffy and rotten links will be broken, and everyone puts its sin on another one’s shoulder while he curses him and repudiates the deed of the other.
Arabic explanations of the Qur’an:
وَوَهَبۡنَا لَهُۥٓ إِسۡحَٰقَ وَيَعۡقُوبَ وَجَعَلۡنَا فِي ذُرِّيَّتِهِ ٱلنُّبُوَّةَ وَٱلۡكِتَٰبَ وَءَاتَيۡنَٰهُ أَجۡرَهُۥ فِي ٱلدُّنۡيَاۖ وَإِنَّهُۥ فِي ٱلۡأٓخِرَةِ لَمِنَ ٱلصَّٰلِحِينَ
27. And We granted to him Isaac and Jacob, and placed in his descendants the Prophethood and the Scripture, and We gave him his reward in this world. And indeed, in the Hereafter he is surely of the righteous.
Arabic explanations of the Qur’an:
وَلُوطًا إِذۡ قَالَ لِقَوۡمِهِۦٓ إِنَّكُمۡ لَتَأۡتُونَ ٱلۡفَٰحِشَةَ مَا سَبَقَكُم بِهَا مِنۡ أَحَدٖ مِّنَ ٱلۡعَٰلَمِينَ
28. And (mention) Lot, when he said to his people, "Indeed, You are committing such indecency (homosexual acts) which no one have ever done so before you of the nations."
Arabic explanations of the Qur’an:
أَئِنَّكُمۡ لَتَأۡتُونَ ٱلرِّجَالَ وَتَقۡطَعُونَ ٱلسَّبِيلَ وَتَأۡتُونَ فِي نَادِيكُمُ ٱلۡمُنكَرَۖ فَمَا كَانَ جَوَابَ قَوۡمِهِۦٓ إِلَّآ أَن قَالُواْ ٱئۡتِنَا بِعَذَابِ ٱللَّهِ إِن كُنتَ مِنَ ٱلصَّٰدِقِينَ
29. Indeed, you (sexually) approach men, cut off the way¹³, and commit detestable acts in your councils? But nothing was the answer of his people except that they said: "Bring on us Allah’s torment, if you are of the truthful."
13. I.e., commit highway robbery and aggression against travelers. Another meaning cut off the offspring by approaching the men as wives and leaving the women.
Arabic explanations of the Qur’an:
قَالَ رَبِّ ٱنصُرۡنِي عَلَى ٱلۡقَوۡمِ ٱلۡمُفۡسِدِينَ
Arabic explanations of the Qur’an:
Translation of the Meanings of the Noble Qur'an - English Translation - Abdullah Hasan Yaqoub - Translations’ Index
Translated by Abdullah Hasan Yaqoub