Text of verse 16:8
وَٱلْخَيْلَ وَٱلْبِغَالَ وَٱلْحَمِيرَ لِتَرْكَبُوهَا وَزِينَةً وَيَخْلُقُ مَا لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ٨
Transliteration
wal-khayla wal-bighāla wal-ḥamīra litarkabūhā wazīnatan wayakhluqu mā lā taʿlamūna
Translation
And [He created] the horses, mules and donkeys for you to ride and [as] adornment. And He creates that which you do not know.
Translation in another language
Choose a translation
Choose a translation
Rachid Maach Nabil Radwan (Noor International) Muhammad Hamidullah
Isa García Noor International (España) Noor International (Latinoamérica) Julio Cortés
Salomo Keyzer
Abubakar Mahmoud Gumi
محمد جوناگڑھی
Bubenheim & Elias
Ali Muhsin Al-Barwani
Hamza Roberto Piccardo
মুহিউদ্দীন খান
Rowwad Tercüme Merkezi Şaban Piriş Ali Özek ve arkadaşları Elmalılı Hamdi Yazır
Kementerian Agama RI
Mahmud Muhammad Abduh
حسین تاجی گلهداری
Abdullah Muhammad Basmeih
Sherif Ahmeti
Məmmədəliyev & Bünyadov
Besim Korkut
馬堅
Ivan Hrbek
Ahsen Böre
三田了一
최영길
Abdul Hameed & Parappoor
Abdulaziz Guroalim Saromantang
Einar Berg
Józef Bielawski
Samir El-Hayek
George Grigore
Эльмир Кулиев
Knut Bernström
ஜான் டிரஸ்ட்
Якуб ибн Нугман
สมาคมนักเรียนเก่าอาหรับ ประเทศไทย
Муҳаммад Содиқ Муҳаммад Юсуф
Verse 8 of Surah An-Nahl (16:8), a Meccan surah, is in juz 14, on page 268 of the mushaf. Read it in Arabic with its transliteration, translations and tafsir, and listen to it recited by 73 reciters.
Tafsir of verse 8
Al-Mukhtasar
He created horses, mules and donkeys for you to ride and carry your goods on and for them to be an adornment for you that you can beautify yourselves with amongst people. He will create in the future means of transport and other things that you do not know about.
Tafsir of the whole Surah An-Nahl
Other translations of verse 8
And [He created] the horses, mules and donkeys for you to ride and for adornment, and He creates other things that you do not know.
And (He has created) horses, mules and donkeys, for you to ride and as an adornment. And He creates (other) things of which you have no knowledge.
And horses and mules and asses (hath He created) that ye may ride them, and for ornament. And He createth that which ye know not.
And (He has created) horses, mules, and donkeys, for you to ride and use for show; and He has created (other) things of which ye have no knowledge.
And (He made) horses and mules and asses that you might ride upon them and as an ornament; and He creates what you do not know.
And horses and mules and asses for you to ride, and as an adornment; and He creates what you do not know.
Verse 8 word by word
وَٱلْخَيْلَ
wal-khayla And horses خ ي ل
وَٱلْبِغَالَ
wal-bighāla and mules ب غ ل
وَٱلْحَمِيرَ
wal-ḥamīra and donkeys ح م ر
لِتَرْكَبُوهَا
litarkabūhā for you to ride them ر ك ب
وَزِينَةً
wazīnatan and (as) adornment ز ي ن
وَيَخْلُقُ
wayakhluqu And He creates خ ل ق
مَا
mā what
لَا
lā not
تَعْلَمُونَ
taʿlamūna you know ع ل م
Hadiths that cite this verse
Authentic
Sahih al-Bukhari 2863
جَعَلَ لِلْفَرَسِ سَهْمَيْنِ وَلِصَاحِبِهِ سَهْمًا. وَقَالَ مَالِكٌ يُسْهَمُ لِلْخَيْلِ وَالْبَرَاذِينِ مِنْهَا لِقَوْلِهِ {وَالْخَيْلَ وَالْبِغَالَ وَالْحَمِيرَ لِتَرْكَبُوهَا} وَلاَ يُسْهَمُ لأَكْثَرَ مِنْ…
Narrated by Abdullāh ibn ‘Umar
Weak
Muwatta Malik 982
حَدَّثَنِي يَحْيَى، عَنْ مَالِكٍ، أَنَّهُ قَالَ بَلَغَنِي أَنَّ عُمَرَ بْنَ عَبْدِ الْعَزِيزِ، كَانَ يَقُولُ لِلْفَرَسِ سَهْمَانِ وَلِلرَّجُلِ سَهْمٌ . قَالَ مَالِكٌ وَلَمْ أَزَلْ أَسْمَعُ ذَلِكَ . وَسُئِلَ مَالِكٌ…
Previous verse Surah An-Nahl, Verse 7 Next verse Surah An-Nahl, Verse 9
Surah An-Nahl
سورة النحل
128 verses · Meccan