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Quran-16:17 Surah An-nahl English Translation,Transliteration and Tafsir(Tafseer).

أَفَمَن يَخۡلُقُ كَمَن لَّا يَخۡلُقُۚ أَفَلَا تَذَكَّرُونَ

Transliteration:( Afamany yakhluqu kamallaa yakhluq; afalaa tazak karoon )

17. Will then He who creates become like him who does not create (34)? Do you not then accept admonition (35)?

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Surah An-Nahl Ayat 17 Tafsir (Commentry)



  • Tafseer-e-Naeemi (Ahmad Yaar Khan)
  • Ibn Kathir
  • Ala-Madudi

34. The infidels of Arabia did not regard their idols as creator. Despite this they would take them to be like Allah Almighty, and as such were worshipping them. Such belief of theirs is refuted in this verse i.e. since the creation cannot be like the Creator, how can it be worthy of worship like Him.

35. It should be remembered that respect is due to Allah Almighty as well as to some of His special servants. However, worship should be of Allah Almighty alone. In worship, the one worshipped is given respect of Allah Almighty or accepting him like Allah Almighty. In Salaah there is respect of Ka'ba but the worship of Allah Almighty. But the prostration of the polytheist and his worship are both directed at the idol, hence this act is polytheism. The believer's respect of Zam-Zam water is positive faith, while the polytheists' respect of the water of Ganges is polytheism.

 

Ibn-Kathir

The tafsir of Surah An-Nahl verse 17 by Ibn Kathir is unavailable here.
Please refer to Surah Nahl ayat 14 which provides the complete commentary from verse 14 through 18.

(16:17) Is then the One Who creates like the one who does not create?[16] Will you not, then, take heed?

16. That is, if you, people of Makkah, acknowledge (and they acknowledged this just as other mushriks did) that Allah alone is the Creator of all of you and everything, and no one of the partners, you have set up with Him, has created anything in the universe. How is it, then, that you ascribe from among the creation, a status equal to or like that of the Creator in the system of universe created by Him? How can it be possible that the power and the rights of the creation should be equal to the power and the rights of the Creator in the universe created by Himself? How can it be believed that the Creator and the creation possess the same qualities and characteristics, or can have such relationship as of father and son?

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