Quran 16:87 — An-Nahl, verse 87
M. A. S. Abdel Haleem · selected translation
and on that Day they will offer total submission to God: their false deities will desert them.
وَأَلْقَوْا إِلَى اللَّهِ يَوْمَئِذٍ السَّلَمَ ۖ وَضَلَّ عَنْهُمْ مَا كَانُوا يَفْتَرُونَ
wa-alqaw ilā l-lahi yawma-idhin l-salama waḍalla ʿanhum mā kānū yaftarūna
Other translations
- A. J. Arberry
- And they will offer God surrender that day, and there shall go astray from them that they were forging.
- Muhammad Asad
- And on that Day will they [who had thus been sinning, belatedly] proffer their surrender to God; and all their false imagery will have forsaken them.
- Sahih International
- And they will impart to Allāh that Day [their] submission, and lost from them is what they used to invent.
Words
| # | Word | Meaning | Root |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | وَأَلْقَوْا۟wa-alqaw | And they (will) offer | لقي |
| 2 | إِلَىilā | to | — |
| 3 | ٱللَّهِl-lahi | Allah | أله |
| 4 | يَوْمَئِذٍyawma-idhin | (on) that Day | — |
| 5 | ٱلسَّلَمَ ۖl-salama | the submission | سلم |
| 6 | وَضَلَّwaḍalla | and (is) lost | ضلل |
| 7 | عَنْهُمʿanhum | from them | — |
| 8 | مَّاmā | what | — |
| 9 | كَانُوا۟kānū | they used (to) | كون |
| 10 | يَفْتَرُونَyaftarūna | invent | فري |