سورة العنكبوت، الآية ٤٣
وَتِلْكَ ٱلْأَمْثَٰلُ نَضْرِبُهَا لِلنَّاسِ وَمَا يَعْقِلُهَآ إِلَّا ٱلْعَٰلِمُونَ ٤٣
watil'ka l-amthālu naḍribuhā lilnnāsi wamā yaʿqiluhā illā l-ʿālimūna
And these examples We present to the people, but none will understand them except those of knowledge.
Verse 43 of Surah Al-’Ankabut (29:43), a Meccan surah, is in juz 20, on page 401 of the mushaf. Read it in Arabic with its transliteration, translations and tafsir, and listen to it recited by 72 reciters.
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These examples that I draw for people, to awaken them and make them see the truth and guide them to it, can only be grasped in the desired manner by those who have knowledge of Allah’s law and rule.
Such are the comparisons We set forth for people, but none will understand them except the people of knowledge.
And these similitudes We put forward for mankind; but none will understand them except those who have knowledge (of Allâh and His Signs).
As for these similitudes, We coin them for mankind, but none will grasp their meaning save the wise.
And such are the Parables We set forth for mankind, but only those understand them who have knowledge.
And (as for) these examples, We set them forth for men, and none understand them but the learned.
And those similitudes, We strike them for mankind, and in no way does anyone consider them except the knowledgeable (people).
They share a sequence of words with this verse: useful for telling them apart when memorising.
لَوْ أَنزَلْنَا هَٰذَا ٱلْقُرْءَانَ عَلَىٰ جَبَلٍ لَّرَأَيْتَهُۥ خَٰشِعًا مُّتَصَدِّعًا مِّنْ خَشْيَةِ ٱللَّهِ وَتِلْكَ ٱلْأَمْثَٰلُ نَضْرِبُهَا لِلنَّاسِ لَعَلَّهُمْ يَتَفَكَّرُونَ
If We had sent down this Qur’ān upon a mountain, you would have seen it humbled and splitting from fear of Allāh. And these examples We present to the people that perhaps they will give thought.
