Surah Al-Kahf Ayat 52 in Arabic Text
English Translation
Here you can read various translations of verse 52
And [warn of] the Day when He will say, “Call ‘My partners’ whom you claimed,” and they will invoke them, but they will not respond to them. And We will put between them [a valley of] destruction.
One Day He will say, “Call on those whom ye thought to be My partners,” and they will call on them, but they will not listen to them; and We shall make for them a place of common perdition.
What will such people do on the Day when the Lord will say: “Now call upon all those whom you believed to be My partners?” Thereupon they will call upon them, but they will not respond to their call; and We shall make them a common pit of doom,
And (remember) the Day He will say:”Call those (so-called) partners of Mine whom you pretended.” Then they will cry unto them, but they will not answer them, and We shall put Maubiqa (a barrier, or enmity, or destruction, or a valley in Hell) between them.
And (be mindful of) the Day when He will say: Call those partners of Mine whom ye pretended. Then they will cry unto them, but they will not hear their prayer, and We shall set a gulf of doom between them.
And on the Day He will say, “Call out My associates whom you asserted.” So they will call on them, yet they will not respond to them; and We will make a chasm between them.
On the Day God will say, ‘Call on those you claimed were My partners,’ they will call them but they will not answer; We shall set a deadly gulf between them.
اور جس دن وه فرمائے گا کہ تمہارے خیال میں جو میرے شریک تھے انہیں پکارو! یہ پکاریں گے لیکن ان میں سے کوئی بھی جواب نہ دے گا ہم ان کے درمیان ہلاکت کا سامان کردیں گے
Quran 18 Verse 52 Explanation
For those looking for commentary to help with the understanding of Surah Kahf ayat 52, we’ve provided two Tafseer works below. The first is the tafseer of Abul Ala Maududi, the second is of Ibn Kathir.
Ala-Maududi
(18:52) What will such people do on the Day when the Lord will say: “Now call upon all those whom you believed to be My partners?”[50] Thereupon they will call upon them, but they will not respond to their call; and We shall make them a common pit of doom,[51]
50. This theme has already been stated at several places in the Quran. This is to impress that it is shirk to discard the commandments and the guidance of Allah and to follow the orders and guidance of any other than Allah, though one may not be professing with his tongue that there is any partner of Allah: nay, if one might be cursing others but at the same time following their orders instead of divine commandments, even then that one shall be guilty of shirk. For instance, we see that everyone in this world curses satans but still follows them. According to the Quran, in spite of cursing them, if people follow satans, they shall be guilty of setting up satans as partners with Allah. Though this will not be shirk in so many words, it will be tantamount to the practice of shirk and the Quran denounces this as shirk.
51. Generally the commentators have assigned two meanings to this. The one is the same that we have adopted in our translation and the other is this: We will cause enmity between them. That is: Their friendship in this world shall be turned into bitter enmity in the Hereafter.
Ibn-Kathir
52. And (remember) the Day He will say: “Call those (so-called) partners of Mine whom you claimed.” Then they will cry unto them, but they will not answer them, and We shall put Mawbiq between them. 53. And the criminals shall see the Fire and apprehend that they are to fall therein. And they will find no way of escape from it.
Allah tells us how He will address the idolators on the Day of Resurrection before all of creation, rebuking and scolding them,
(Call those (so-called) partners of Mine whom you claimed.) meaning, in the world. Call them today to save you from the situation you are in! Allah says:
(And truly, you have come unto Us alone as We created you the first time. You have left what you were given behind your backs and We do see not with you your intercessors whom you claimed were your partners. Now all relations between you and them have been cut off, and all that you used to claim has vanished from you.) ﴿6:94﴾
(Then they will cry unto them, but they will not answer them.) As Allah says:
(And it will be said (to them): “Call upon those partners of yours,” then they will call upon them, but they will not answer them.) ﴿28: 64﴾ And the Ayah:
(And who is more astray than one who calls others besides Allah, such as will not answer him) ﴿46:5﴾ Until the end of the two Ayat;
(And they have taken gods besides Allah, that they may grant them honor. Nay, but they will deny their worship of them, and become opponents to them.) ﴿19:81-82﴾
(and We shall put Mawbiq between them.) Ibn `Abbas, Qatadah and others said: “Destruction.” The meaning is that Allah is stating that these idolators will have no way of reaching the gods they claimed in this world. He will separate them in the Hereafter and neither party will have any means of reaching the other. There will be devastation, great horrors and other terrible things in between them. `Abdullah bin `Amr understood the pronoun in the phrase “between them” to refer to the believers and the disbelievers, meaning that the people of guidance and the people of misguidance will be separated. This then is like the Ayat:
(And on the Day when the Hour will be established — that Day shall (all men) be separated. ) ﴿30:14﴾
(On that Day men shall be divided.) ﴿30:43﴾,
((It will be said), “And O you the criminals! Get you apart this Day (from the believers).) ﴿36:59﴾
(And on the Day when We shall gather them all together, then We shall say to those who joined partners, “Stop in your place! You and your partners.” Then We shall separate between them…) until,
(And what they invented will vanish from them.) ﴿10:28-30﴾
(And the criminals shall see the Fire and apprehend that they are to fall therein. And they will find no way of escape from it.) meaning when they see Hell with their own eyes, since it is being dragged forth by seventy thousand reins, each pulled by seventy thousand angels. When,
(the criminals shall see the Fire), they will realize that they cannot escape being thrown into it, and that will only intesify their anxiety and distress, because the anticipation and fear of punishment is in itself a real punishment.
(And they will find no way of escape from it.) means, they will have no way of fleeing, it will be inevitable.
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