سورة غافر، الآية ٤١
وَيَٰقَوْمِ مَا لِىٓ أَدْعُوكُمْ إِلَى ٱلنَّجَوٰةِ وَتَدْعُونَنِىٓ إِلَى ٱلنَّارِ ٤١
wayāqawmi mā lī adʿūkum ilā l-najati watadʿūnanī ilā l-nāri
And O my people, how is it that I invite you to salvation while you invite me to the Fire?
Verse 41 of Surah Ghafir (40:41), a Meccan surah, is in juz 24, on page 472 of the mushaf. Read it in Arabic with its transliteration, translations and tafsir, and listen to it recited by 72 reciters.
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O people, why is it that I call you towards salvation from loss in the worldly life and the Hereafter by bringing faith in Allah and good actions, but you call me to enter the fire by asking me to disbelieve in Allah and disobey Him?
O my people, how is it that I call you to salvation while you call me to the Fire?
"And O my people! How is it that I call you to salvation while you call me to the Fire!
And, O my people! What aileth me that I call you unto deliverance when ye call me unto the Fire?
"And O my people! How (strange) it is for me to call you to Salvation while ye call me to the Fire!
And, O my people! how is it that I call you to salvation and you call me to the fire?
And O my people, how is it with me that I call you to deliverance, and you call me to the Fire?
وَمَنْ أَضَلُّ مِمَّن يَدْعُوا۟ مِن دُونِ ٱللَّهِ مَن لَّا يَسْتَجِيبُ لَهُۥٓ إِلَىٰ يَوْمِ ٱلْقِيَٰمَةِ وَهُمْ عَن دُعَآئِهِمْ غَٰفِلُونَ …
And who is more astray than he who invokes besides Allāh those who will not respond to him until the Day of Resurrection [i.e., never], and they, of their invocation, are unaware. …
إِن تَدْعُوهُمْ لَا يَسْمَعُوا۟ دُعَآءَكُمْ وَلَوْ سَمِعُوا۟ مَا ٱسْتَجَابُوا۟ لَكُمْ وَيَوْمَ ٱلْقِيَٰمَةِ يَكْفُرُونَ بِشِرْكِكُمْ وَلَا يُنَبِّئُكَ مِثْلُ خَبِيرٍ
If you invoke them, they do not hear your supplication; and if they heard, they would not respond to you. And on the Day of Resurrection they will deny your association. And none can inform you like [one] Aware [of all matters].
