Text of verse 88:22
لَّسْتَ عَلَيْهِم بِمُصَيْطِرٍ ٢٢
Transliteration
lasta ʿalayhim bimuṣayṭirin
Translation
You are not over them a controller.
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Surah Al-Ghashiyah, Verse 22
سورة الغاشية، الآية ٢٢
Verse 22 of Surah Al-Ghashiyah (88:22), a Meccan surah, is in juz 30, on page 592 of the mushaf. Read it in Arabic with its transliteration, translations and tafsir, and listen to it recited by 74 reciters.
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Tafsir of verse 22
Al-Mukhtasar
You have not been given control over them so that you can compel them to have faith.
Other translations of verse 22
you are not assigned to compel them.
You are not a dictator over them -
Thou art not at all a warder over them.
Thou art not one to manage (men's) affairs.
You are not a watcher over them;
You are not in any way a dominator over them,
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Hadiths that cite this verse
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Jami' at-Tirmidhi 3341
the Messenger of Allah said: “I have been ordered to fight the people until they say: ‘La ilaha illallah’. So when they say that, their blood and their wealth are safe from me, except for a right, and their reckoning is for Allah.” Then he recited: So remind them – you are only one who reminds. You…
" أُمِرْتُ أَنْ أُقَاتِلَ النَّاسَ حَتَّى يَقُولُوا لاَ إِلَهَ إِلاَّ اللَّهُ فَإِذَا قَالُوهَا عَصَمُوا مِنِّي دِمَاءَهُمْ وَأَمْوَالَهُمْ إِلاَّ بِحَقِّهَا وَحِسَابُهُمْ عَلَى اللَّهِ " . ثُمَّ قَرَأَ : (…