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Surah Ash-Shu’ara Ayat 115 in Arabic Text

إِنۡ أَنَا۠ إِلَّا نَذِيرٞ مُّبِينٞ
In ana illaa nazeerum mubeen

English Translation

Here you can read various translations of verse 115

Sahih International
I am only a clear warner.”

Yusuf Ali
“I am sent only to warn plainly in public.”

Abul Ala Maududi
I am none but a plain warner.”

Muhsin Khan
I am only a plain warner.”

Pickthall
I am only a plain warner.

Dr. Ghali
Decidedly I am nothing except an evident warner.”

Abdel Haleem
I am here only to give people a clear warning.’

Muhammad Junagarhi
میں تو صاف طور پر ڈرا دینے واﻻ ہوں

Quran 26 Verse 115 Explanation

For those looking for commentary to help with the understanding of Surah Ash-Shu’ara ayat 115, we’ve provided two Tafseer works below. The first is the tafseer of Abul Ala Maududi, the second is of Ibn Kathir.

Ala-Maududi

(26:115) I am none but a plain warner.”[83]


83. This is the second answer to their objection, which implied that since those who were gathering around Noah (peace be upon him) as believers, belonged to the lowest social strata, none of the nobles would like to join them, as if to say: O Noah, should we believe in you in order to be counted among the low-ranking people like the slaves and servants and workmen? To this Prophet Noah (peace be upon him) answers: How can I adopt this irrational attitude that I should attend earnestly to those who do not like to listen to me, but drive away those who have believed and followed me? I am simply, a warner, who has declared openly that the way you are following is wrong and will lead you to ruin, and the way that I am inviting to is the way of salvation far all. Now it is up to you whether you heed my warning and adopt the right path, or go on following blindly the way to your ruin. It does not behoove me that I should start inquiring into the castes and ancestry and trades of the people who have heeded my warning and adopted the right path. They might be mean in your sight, but I cannot drive them away and wait to see when the nobles will give up the path of destruction and adopt the way of salvation and success instead.

Precisely the same thing was going on between the Holy Prophet and the disbelievers of Makkah when these verses were revealed, and one can fully understand why the dialogue between Prophet Noah (peace be upon him) and the chiefs of his people, has been related here. The chiefs of the disbelievers of Makkah thought exactly the same way. They said how they could sit side by side with the slaves like Bilal, Ammar and Suhaib and other men of the working class, as if to say: Unless these poor people are turned out, there can be no possibility that the nobles may consider to become believers; it is impossible that the master and the slave should stand shoulder to shoulder with each other. In answer to this the Prophet (peace be upon him) was commanded by Allah to tell the vain and arrogant disbelievers plainly that the poor believers could not be driven out of Islam just for their sake: O Muhammad, you attend earnestly to him who has shown indifference (to your message), whereas you have no responsibility if he does not reform himself; and the one who comes to you earnestly, fearing Allah, to him you pay no attention. Nay, this indeed is an admonition, so let him, who wills, accept it. (Surah Abasa, Ayat 5-12).

And do not drive away those who invoke their Lord morning and evening and are engaged in seeking His favor. You are not in any way accountable for them, nor are they in any way accountable for you: so, if you should drive them away, you shall be counted among the unjust. As a matter of fact, in this way We have made some of them a means of test for others, so that, seeing them, they should say: Are these the people from among us upon whom Allah has showered His blessings? Yes, does Allah not know His grateful servants better than they? (Surah Al-Anaam, Ayat 52-53).

Ibn-Kathir

The tafsir of Surah Ash-Shura verse 115 by Ibn Kathir is unavailable here.
Please refer to Surah Shura ayat 111 which provides the complete commentary from verse 111 through 115.

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