سورة الزخرف، الآية ٦٠
وَلَوْ نَشَآءُ لَجَعَلْنَا مِنكُم مَّلَٰٓئِكَةً فِى ٱلْأَرْضِ يَخْلُفُونَ ٦٠
walaw nashāu lajaʿalnā minkum malāikatan fī l-arḍi yakhlufūna
And if We willed, We could have made [instead] of you angels succeeding [one another]1445 on the earth.
[1445] Or "succeeding [you]."
Verse 60 of Surah Az-Zukhruf (43:60), a Meccan surah, is in juz 25, on page 493 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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O children of Adam! If I wish to destroy you and make the angels succeed you on earth in your place, they would worship Me and not ascribe partners with me at all.
If We willed, We could [destroy you all and] replace you with angels, succeeding you on earth.
And if it were Our Will, We would have [destroyed you (mankind) all, and] made angels to replace you on the earth. [Tafsir At-Tabarî].
And had We willed We could have set among you angels to be viceroys in the earth.
And if it were Our Will, We could make angels from amongst you, succeeding each other on the earth.
And if We please, We could make among you angels to be successors in the land.
And if We had (so) decided, We would indeed have made from among you Angels to be successors in the earth.
