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Quran 43:60

Surah Az-Zukhruf, Verse 60

Juz 25 · Page 493 · Ruku 429 · Meccan

وَلَوْ نَشَآءُ لَجَعَلْنَا مِنكُم مَّلَٰٓئِكَةً فِى ٱلْأَرْضِ يَخْلُفُونَ

Word by word

وَلَوْ walaw And if نَشَآءُ nashāu We willed لَجَعَلْنَا lajaʿalnā surely We (could have) made مِنكُم minkum among you مَّلَـٰٓئِكَةًۭ malāikatan Angels فِى fī in ٱلْأَرْضِ l-arḍi the earth يَخْلُفُونَ yakhlufūna succeeding

Transliteration

Walaw nashao lajaAAalna minkummala-ikatan fee al-ardi yakhlufoon

Translations

Pickthall — Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall

And had We willed We could have set among you angels to be viceroys in the earth.

Yusuf Ali — Abdullah Yusuf Ali

And if it were Our Will, We could make angels from amongst you, succeeding each other on the earth.

تفسير ابن كثير — Ismail ibn Kathir

وقوله : ( ولو نشاء لجعلنا منكم ) أي : بدلكم ( ملائكة في الأرض يخلفون ) ، قال السدي : يخلفونك فيها . وقال ابن عباس ، وقتادة : يخلف بعضهم بعضا ، كما يخلف بعضكم بعضا . وهذا القول يستلزم الأول . وقال مجاهد : يعمرون الأرض بدلكم .

Arabic text: Tanzil Uthmani 1.1 — Tanzil — non-commercial redistribution with attribution.
Translation: Pickthall by Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall — Public domain.
Translation: Yusuf Ali by Abdullah Yusuf Ali — Public domain.
Commentary: تفسير ابن كثير — Public domain.
Word-by-word data via Quran Foundation. Linguistic annotation: the Quranic Arabic Corpus.