Surah Ibrahim Ayat 11 in Arabic Text
English Translation
Here you can read various translations of verse 11
Their messengers said to them, “We are only men like you, but Allah confers favor upon whom He wills of His servants. It has never been for us to bring you evidence except by permission of Allah. And upon Allah let the believers rely.
Their messengers said to them: “True, we are human like yourselves, but Allah doth grant His grace to such of his servants as He pleases. It is not for us to bring you an authority except as Allah permits. And on Allah let all men of faith put their trust.
Their Messengers told them: “Indeed we are only human beings like yourselves, but Allah bestows His favour on those of His servants whom He wills. It does not lie in our power to produce any authority except by the leave of Allah. It is in Allah that the believers should put their trust.
Their Messengers said to them: “We are no more than human beings like you, but Allah bestows His Grace to whom He wills of His slaves. It is not ours to bring you an authority (proof) except by the Permission of Allah. And in Allah (Alone) let the believers put their trust.
Their messengers said unto them: We are but mortals like you, but Allah giveth grace unto whom He will of His slaves. It is not ours to bring you a warrant unless by the permission of Allah. In Allah let believers put their trust!
Their Messengers said to them, “Decidedly we are nothing except mortals like you; but Allah bestows His Bounty to whomever He decides of His bondmen. And in no way could we come up to you with an all- binding authority except by the permission of Allah, and in (Literally: on) Allah let the believers then put their trust.
Their messengers answered, ‘True, we are only men like you, but God favours whichever of His servants He chooses. We cannot bring you any proof unless God permits it, so let the believers put all their trust in Him-
ان کے پیغمبروں نے ان سے کہا کہ یہ تو سچ ہے کہ ہم تم جیسے ہی انسان ہیں لیکن اللہ تعالیٰ اپنے بندوں میں سے جس پر چاہتا ہے اپنا فضل کرتا ہے۔ اللہ کے حکم کے بغیر ہماری مجال نہیں کہ ہم کوئی معجزه تمہیں ﻻ دکھائیں اور ایمان والوں کو صرف اللہ تعالیٰ ہی پر بھروسہ رکھنا چاہئے
Quran 14 Verse 11 Explanation
For those looking for commentary to help with the understanding of Surah Ibrahim ayat 11, we’ve provided two Tafseer works below. The first is the tafseer of Abul Ala Maududi, the second is of Ibn Kathir.
Ala-Maududi
(14:11) Their Messengers told them: “Indeed we are only human beings like yourselves,[19] but Allah bestows His favour on those of His servants whom He wills.[21] It does not lie in our power to produce any authority except by the leave of Allah. It is in Allah that the believers should put their trust.
19. The disbelievers meant to imply: You are a human being like us in every respect: you eat, drink and sleep like us and have wife and children like us. You feel hungry and thirsty, and suffer from heat and cold, disease and calamities like us. In short, you have every human limitation like us, and we see nothing unusual and extraordinary in you to induct us to accept you as a Prophet and believe that God communicates with you and sends His angels to you.
20. That is, if you still insist that you are a Prophet, bring a tangible proof of your appointment so as to convince us that you have really been sent by God and your message is from Him.
Ibn-Kathir
The tafsir of Surah Ibrahim verse 11 by Ibn Kathir is unavailable here.
Please refer to Surah Ibrahim ayat 10 which provides the complete commentary from verse 10 through 12.
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