سورة النحل، الآية ٤٦
أَوْ يَأْخُذَهُمْ فِى تَقَلُّبِهِمْ فَمَا هُم بِمُعْجِزِينَ ٤٦
aw yakhudhahum fī taqallubihim famā hum bimuʿ'jizīna
Or that He would not seize them during their [usual] activity, and they could not cause failure [i.e., escape from Him]?
Verse 46 of Surah An-Nahl (16:46), a Meccan surah, is in juz 14, on page 272 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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Or that the punishment will not afflict them whilst they are going about on their journeys and in their quest for earnings. They will not escape nor protect themselves from it.
Or that He may seize them while they are going about27, and they will have no escape?
[27] i.e., their recurrent travels through lands and going about their lives.
Or that He may catch them in the midst of their going to and fro (in their jobs), so that there be no escape for them (from Allâh’s punishment)?
Or that He will not seize them in their going to and fro so that there be no escape for them?
Or that He may not call them to account in the midst of their goings to and fro, without a chance of their frustrating Him?-
Or that He may not seize them in the course of their journeys, then shall they not escape;
Or that He will not take them (away) in their moving about? Then in no way are they able to be defiant to Him.
أَفَأَمِنَ أَهْلُ ٱلْقُرَىٰٓ أَن يَأْتِيَهُم بَأْسُنَا بَيَٰتًا وَهُمْ نَآئِمُونَ …
Then, did the people of the cities feel secure from Our punishment coming to them at night while they were asleep? …
