سورة الشعراء، الآية ٤
إِن نَّشَأْ نُنَزِّلْ عَلَيْهِم مِّنَ ٱلسَّمَآءِ ءَايَةً فَظَلَّتْ أَعْنَٰقُهُمْ لَهَا خَٰضِعِينَ ٤
in nasha nunazzil ʿalayhim mina l-samāi āyatan faẓallat aʿnāquhum lahā khāḍiʿīna
If We willed, We could send down to them from the sky a sign for which their necks would remain humbled.1044
[1044] i.e., they would be compelled to believe.
Verse 4 of Surah Ash-Shu’ara (26:4), a Meccan surah, is in juz 19, on page 367 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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If I had wished to send down to them a miracle from the sky I would have sent it down and their necks would remain bowed in utter humility before it. But I did not wish that, in order to test them: Do they believe in the Ghaib?
If We willed, We could send down upon them a sign from the heaven, at which their necks would stay bowed in humility3.
[3] i.e., they would be compelled to believe, being humbled.
If We will, We could send down to them from the heaven a sign, to which they would bend their necks in humility.
If We will, We can send down on them from the sky a portent so that their necks would remain bowed before it.
If (such) were Our Will, We could send down to them from the sky a Sign, to which they would bend their necks in humility.
If We please, We should send down upon them a sign from the heaven so that their necks should stoop to it.
In case We (so) decide, We will be sending down on them from the heaven a sign so their necks linger subdued to it.
وَلَوْ شَآءَ رَبُّكَ لَـَٔامَنَ مَن فِى ٱلْأَرْضِ كُلُّهُمْ جَمِيعًا أَفَأَنتَ تُكْرِهُ ٱلنَّاسَ حَتَّىٰ يَكُونُوا۟ مُؤْمِنِينَ
And had your Lord willed, those on earth would have believed - all of them entirely. Then, [O Muḥammad], would you compel the people in order that they become believers?
وَلَوْ شَآءَ رَبُّكَ لَجَعَلَ ٱلنَّاسَ أُمَّةً وَٰحِدَةً وَلَا يَزَالُونَ مُخْتَلِفِينَ …
And if your Lord had willed, He could have made mankind one community; but they will not cease to differ, …
