Al-Mu'minun (The Believers)
Verse 80of 118
وَهُوَ ٱلَّذِى يُحْىِۦ وَيُمِيتُ وَلَهُ ٱخْتِلَٰفُ ٱلَّيْلِ وَٱلنَّهَارِ ۚ أَفَلَا تَعْقِلُونَ﴿٨٠﴾
Translation (Sahih International)
And it is He who gives life and causes death, and His is the alternation of the night and the day. Then will you not reason?
Word-by-word meaning
وَهُوَwahuwaAnd He
ٱلَّذِىalladhī(is) the One Who
يُحْىِۦyuḥ'yīgives life
وَيُمِيتُwayumītuand causes death
وَلَهُwalahuand for Him
ٱخْتِلَـٰفُikh'tilāfu(is the) alternation
ٱلَّيْلِal-layli(of) the night
وَٱلنَّهَارِ ۚwal-nahāriand the day
أَفَلَاafalāThen will not
تَعْقِلُونَtaʿqilūnayou reason
Commentary (Tafsir Ibn Kathir)
وَلَقَدْ أَخَذْنَـهُمْ بِالْعَذَابِ(And indeed We seized them with punishment,) means, `We tried and tested them with difficulties and calamities.' His saying:فَمَا اسْتَكَانُواْ لِرَبِّهِمْ وَمَا يَتَضَرَّعُونَ(but they humbled not themselves to their Lord, nor did they invoke with submission to Him.
Source: Tafsir Ibn Kathir — abridged excerpt
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