سورة مريم، الآية ٨٧
لَّا يَمْلِكُونَ ٱلشَّفَٰعَةَ إِلَّا مَنِ ٱتَّخَذَ عِندَ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنِ عَهْدًا ٨٧
lā yamlikūna l-shafāʿata illā mani ittakhadha ʿinda l-raḥmāni ʿahdan
None will have [power of] intercession except he who had taken from the Most Merciful a covenant.828
[828] Not to worship other than Him.
Verse 87 of Surah Maryam (19:87), a Meccan surah, is in juz 16, on page 311 of the mushaf. Read it in Arabic with its transliteration, translations and tafsir, and listen to it recited by 72 reciters.
78 recitations by 72 reciters: pick one and it plays in the player.
These disbelievers will not have the power to intercede for one another, except for those who had taken a pledge with Allah in the world by having faith in Him and in His messengers.
None will have the power to intercede except those who have taken permission from the Most Compassionate25.
[25] Through firmly believing in Him and worshiping Him alone.
None shall have the power of intercession, but such a one as has received permission (or promise) from the Most Gracious (Allâh).
They will have no power of intercession, save him who hath made a covenant with his Lord.
None shall have the power of intercession, but such a one as has received permission (or promise) from (Allah) Most Gracious.
They shall not control intercession, save he who has made a covenant with the Beneficent Allah.
They do not possess (any means of) intercession, except the ones who have taken to him from the Providence of the All-Merciful a covenant.
فَمَا لَنَا مِن شَٰفِعِينَ …
So now we have no intercessors …
They share a sequence of words with this verse: useful for telling them apart when memorising.
أَطَّلَعَ ٱلْغَيْبَ أَمِ ٱتَّخَذَ عِندَ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنِ عَهْدًا
Has he looked into the unseen, or has he taken from the Most Merciful a promise?
