Quran 18:56 — Al-Kahf, verse 56
M. A. S. Abdel Haleem · selected translation
We only send messengers to bring good news and to deliver warning, yet the disbelievers seek to refute the truth with false arguments and make fun of My messages and warnings.
وَمَا نُرْسِلُ الْمُرْسَلِينَ إِلَّا مُبَشِّرِينَ وَمُنْذِرِينَ ۚ وَيُجَادِلُ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا بِالْبَاطِلِ لِيُدْحِضُوا بِهِ الْحَقَّ ۖ وَاتَّخَذُوا آيَاتِي وَمَا أُنْذِرُوا هُزُوًا
wamā nur'silu l-mur'salīna illā mubashirīna wamundhirīna wayujādilu alladhīna kafarū bil-bāṭili liyud'ḥiḍū bihi l-ḥaqa wa-ittakhadhū āyātī wamā undhirū huzuwan
Other translations
- A. J. Arberry
- And We send not the Envoys, but good tidings to bear, and warning. Yet do the unbelievers dispute with falsehood, that they may rebut thereby the truth. They have taken My signs, and what they are warned of, in mockery.
- Muhammad Asad
- But We send [Our] message-bearers only as heralds of glad tidings and as warners - whereas those who are bent on denying the truth contend [against them] with fallacious arguments, so as to render void the truth thereby, and to make My messages and warnings a target of their mockery.
- Sahih International
- And We send not the messengers except as bringers of good tidings and warners. And those who disbelieve dispute by [using] falsehood to [attempt to] invalidate thereby the truth and have taken My verses, and that of which they are warned, in ridicule.
Words
| # | Word | Meaning | Root |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | وَمَاwamā | And not | — |
| 2 | نُرْسِلُnur'silu | We send | رسل |
| 3 | ٱلْمُرْسَلِينَl-mur'salīna | the Messengers | رسل |
| 4 | إِلَّاillā | except | — |
| 5 | مُبَشِّرِينَmubashirīna | (as) bearers of glad tidings | بشر |
| 6 | وَمُنذِرِينَ ۚwamundhirīna | and (as) warners | نذر |
| 7 | وَيُجَـٰدِلُwayujādilu | And dispute | جدل |
| 8 | ٱلَّذِينَalladhīna | those who | — |
| 9 | كَفَرُوا۟kafarū | disbelieve | كفر |
| 10 | بِٱلْبَـٰطِلِbil-bāṭili | with falsehood | بطل |
| 11 | لِيُدْحِضُوا۟liyud'ḥiḍū | to refute | دحض |
| 12 | بِهِbihi | thereby | — |
| 13 | ٱلْحَقَّ ۖl-ḥaqa | the truth | حقق |
| 14 | وَٱتَّخَذُوٓا۟wa-ittakhadhū | And they take | أخذ |
| 15 | ءَايَـٰتِىāyātī | My Verses | أيي |
| 16 | وَمَآwamā | and what | — |
| 17 | أُنذِرُوا۟undhirū | they are warned | نذر |
| 18 | هُزُوًۭاhuzuwan | (in) ridicule | هزأ |