Surah Ankabut Ayat 25 in Arabic Text
English Translation
Here you can read various translations of verse 25
And [Abraham] said, “You have only taken, other than Allah, idols as [a bond of] affection among you in worldly life. Then on the Day of Resurrection you will deny one another and curse one another, and your refuge will be the Fire, and you will not have any helpers.”
And he said: “For you, ye have taken (for worship) idols besides Allah, out of mutual love and regard between yourselves in this life; but on the Day of Judgment ye shall disown each other and curse each other: and your abode will be the Fire, and ye shall have none to help.”
He said: “You have taken up idols instead of Allah as a bond of love among yourselves in the present life, but on the Day of Resurrection you will disown and curse one another. Your refuge shall be the Fire, and none will come to your aid.”
And [Ibrahim (Abraham)] said: “You have taken (for worship) idols instead of Allah, and the love between you is only in the life of this world, but on the Day of Resurrection, you shall disown each other, and curse each other, and your abode will be the Fire, and you shall have no helper.”
He said: Ye have chosen only idols instead of Allah. The love between you is only in the life of the world. Then on the Day of Resurrection ye will deny each other and curse each other, and your abode will be the Fire, and ye will have no helpers.
And he said, “Surely you have taken to yourselves graven images, apart form Allah, only as (a mark of mutual) amity between you in the present life (Literally: the lowly life, i.e., the life of this world) thereafter on the Day of the Resurrection you will disbelieve in each other, and you will curse each other, (Literally: some of you will curse some “others”) and your abode is the Fire, and in no way will you have any vindicators.”
Abraham said to them, ‘You have chosen idols instead of God but your love for them will only last for the present life: on the Day of Resurrection, you will disown and reject one another. Hell will be your home and no one will help you.’
(حضرت ابراہیم علیہ السلام نے) کہا کہ تم نے جن بتوں کی پرستش اللہ کے سوا کی ہے انہیں تم نے اپنی آپس کی دنیوی دوستی کی بنا ٹھہرا لی ہے، تم سب قیامت کے دن ایک دوسرے سے کفر کرنے لگو گے اور ایک دوسرے پر لعنت کرنے لگو گے۔ اور تمہارا سب کا ٹھکانہ دوزخ ہوگا اور تمہارا کوئی مددگار نہ ہوگا
Quran 29 Verse 25 Explanation
For those looking for commentary to help with the understanding of Surah Ankabut ayat 25, we’ve provided two Tafseer works below. The first is the tafseer of Abul Ala Maududi, the second is of Ibn Kathir.
Ala-Maududi
(29:25) He said:[41] “You have taken up idols instead of Allah as a bond of love among yourselves[42] in the present life, but on the Day of Resurrection you will disown and curse one another.[43] Your refuge shall be the Fire, and none will come to your aid.”
41. The Prophet Abraham (peace be upon him) must have said this after his safe deliverance from the fire.
42. That is, you have built up your collective life on the foundation of idol worship instead of God worship. This can keep you bound together as a nation only to the extent of mundane life. For here in this world people can get together around any creed, true or false. Any kind of agreement and concord on any belief, however wrong and ill conceived, can become a means of the establishment of mutual friendships, kinships, brotherhoods, and all other religious, social, cultural, economic and political relationships.
43. That is, the collective life that you have built on the false creed in the world cannot endure in the Hereafter. Only those relationships of love and friendship and cooperation and kinship and mutual regard and esteem will endure there, which have been based on the worship of One God and virtue and piety in the world. All relationships founded on disbelief and shirk and deviation will be severed, and all kinds of love will change into enmity and hatred. The son and the father, the husband and the wife, the saint and the disciple, all will curse each other, and each will blame his deviation on the other, and will say, “This wicked person led me astray: he should be given a double punishment.” This thing has been stated at several places in the Quran. For example, in Surah Az-Zukhruf, it has been said: “Friends on that Day shall become enemies of one another, except the righteous,” (Surah Az-Zukhruf, Ayat 67). In Surah Al-Aaraf: “As each generation will be entering Hell, it will curse its preceding generation till all generations shall be gathered together there: then each succeeding generation will say regarding the preceding one; O Lord, these were the people who led us astray; therefore, give them a double chastisement of the Fire,” (Surah Al-Aaraf, Ayat 38). And in Surah Al- Ahzab: “And they will say; Our Lord, we obeyed our chiefs and our great men, and they led us astray from the right path. Lord, give them a doable chastisement and curse them severely,” (Surah Al-Ahzab, Ayat 67-68).
Ibn-Kathir
The tafsir of Surah Ankabut verse 25 by Ibn Kathir is unavailable here.
Please refer to Surah Ankabut ayat 24 which provides the complete commentary from verse 24 through 25.
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