QASAS UN NABIYEEN

VOLUME 4

CHAPTER 5                                      

ابٌ رحيم و معلم حكيم

VOCABULARY

He sophisticated, improvised	يتفننُ	He varied (style)	يتنوعُ
You threaten	توعِدُون	Don’t sit	لا تقعُدوا
You seek	تبغون	You repel, push back	تصُدُون
Increased, multiplied	كثر	crookedness	عوج

English translation

Merciful father and wise teacher

He (Shoaib pbuh) varied his style in speech and improvised in his advice like a merciful father and a wise teacher and he would say:

“He said: O my people! Serve Allah. Ye have no other Allah save Him. Lo! a clear proof hath come unto you from your Lord; so give full measure and full weight and wrong not mankind in their goods, and work not confusion in the earth after the fair ordering thereof. That will be better for you, if ye are believers. Lurk not on every road to threaten (wayfarers), and to turn away from Allah's path him who believeth in Him, and to seek to make it crooked. And remember, when ye were but few, how He did multiply you. And see the nature of the consequence for the corrupters!”

Picthal’s translation. Sura Al A’raaf 85-86

CHAPTER 6

جواب قومه

VOCABULARY

intellectuals	أذكياء	Scrutinized, went into the depth	دقق
arrogance	تيه	explanation	تعليل
discovered	اكتشفوا	Pride, overconfidence	زهو
Puzzle, enigma, mystery	لغزة	Disentangled, loosened	فكوا

English translation

The answer from his people

Their intellectuals went into the depth of understanding this message and its explanation. They said with arrogance and an air of overconfidence as if they had discovered a secret or solved a mystery.

“They said: O Shu'eyb! Doth thy way of prayer command thee that we should forsake that which our fathers (used to) worship, or that we (should leave off) doing what we will with our own property. Lo! thou art the mild, the guide to right behavior.”

Picthall: Sura Hud verse 87.