سورة الواقعة، الآية ٧٠
لَوْ نَشَآءُ جَعَلْنَٰهُ أُجَاجًا فَلَوْلَا تَشْكُرُونَ ٧٠
law nashāu jaʿalnāhu ujājan falawlā tashkurūna
If We willed, We could make it bitter, so why are you not grateful?
Verse 70 of Surah Al-Waqi’ah (56:70), a Meccan surah, is in juz 27, on page 536 of the mushaf. Read it in Arabic with its transliteration, translations and tafsir, and listen to it recited by 73 reciters.
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Full Surah Al-Waqi’ah by: Mahmoud Khalil Al-HussarySaad Al-GhamdiAbdul Rahman Al-SudaisMaher Al-MuaiqlyMishary Rashid AlafasyAbdul Basit Abdul Samad
If I wanted to make that water extremely bitter, such that it would be of no use for drinking nor for irrigation, I would have done so. Will you then not be grateful to Me for sending it down as palatable and a mercy for you?
If We willed, We could make it salty; will you not then give thanks?
If We willed, We verily could make it salt (and undrinkable): why then do you not give thanks (to Allâh)?
If We willed We verily could make it bitter. Why then, give ye not thanks?
Were it Our Will, We could make it salt (and unpalatable): then why do ye not give thanks?
If We pleased, We would have made it salty; why do you not then give thanks?
If We had (so) decided, We would have made it bitter; so had you only thanked (Us)!
هُوَ ٱلَّذِىٓ أَنزَلَ مِنَ ٱلسَّمَآءِ مَآءً لَّكُم مِّنْهُ شَرَابٌ وَمِنْهُ شَجَرٌ فِيهِ تُسِيمُونَ …
It is He who sends down rain from the sky; from it is drink and from it is foliage in which you pasture [animals]. …
