Quran 2:133 — Al-Baqara, verse 133
M. A. S. Abdel Haleem · selected translation
Were you [Jews] there to see when death came upon Jacob? When he said to his sons, ‘What will you worship after I am gone?’ they replied, ‘We shall worship your God and the God of your fathers, Abraham, Ishmael, and Isaac, one single God: we devote ourselves to Him.’
أَمْ كُنْتُمْ شُهَدَاءَ إِذْ حَضَرَ يَعْقُوبَ الْمَوْتُ إِذْ قَالَ لِبَنِيهِ مَا تَعْبُدُونَ مِنْ بَعْدِي قَالُوا نَعْبُدُ إِلَـٰهَكَ وَإِلَـٰهَ آبَائِكَ إِبْرَاهِيمَ وَإِسْمَاعِيلَ وَإِسْحَاقَ إِلَـٰهًا وَاحِدًا وَنَحْنُ لَهُ مُسْلِمُونَ
am kuntum shuhadāa idh ḥaḍara yaʿqūba l-mawtu idh qāla libanīhi mā taʿbudūna min baʿdī qālū naʿbudu ilāhaka wa-ilāha ābāika ib'rāhīma wa-is'māʿīla wa-is'ḥāqa ilāhan wāḥidan wanaḥnu lahu mus'limūna
Other translations
- A. J. Arberry
- Why, were you witnesses, when death came to Jacob? When he said to his sons, 'What will you serve after me?' They said, 'We will serve thy God and the God of thy fathers Abraham, Ishmael and Isaac, One God; to Him we surrender.'
- Muhammad Asad
- Nay, but you [yourselves, O children of Israel,] bear witness that when death was approaching Jacob, he said unto his sons: "Whom will you worship after I am gone?" They answered: "We will worship thy God, the God of thy forefathers Abraham and Ishmael and Isaac, the One God; and unto Him we surrender ourselves."
- Sahih International
- Or were you witnesses when death approached Jacob, when he said to his sons, "What will you worship after me?" They said, "We will worship your God and the God of your fathers, Abraham and Ishmael and Isaac - one God. And we are Muslims [in submission] to Him."
Words
| # | Word | Meaning | Root |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | أَمْam | Or | — |
| 2 | كُنتُمْkuntum | were you | كون |
| 3 | شُهَدَآءَshuhadāa | witnesses | شهد |
| 4 | إِذْidh | when | — |
| 5 | حَضَرَḥaḍara | came to | حضر |
| 6 | يَعْقُوبَyaʿqūba | Yaqub | — |
| 7 | ٱلْمَوْتُl-mawtu | [the] death | موت |
| 8 | إِذْidh | when | — |
| 9 | قَالَqāla | he said | قول |
| 10 | لِبَنِيهِlibanīhi | to his sons | بني |
| 11 | مَاmā | What | — |
| 12 | تَعْبُدُونَtaʿbudūna | will you worship | عبد |
| 13 | مِنۢmin | from | — |
| 14 | بَعْدِىbaʿdī | after me | بعد |
| 15 | قَالُوا۟qālū | They said | قول |
| 16 | نَعْبُدُnaʿbudu | We will worship | عبد |
| 17 | إِلَـٰهَكَilāhaka | your God | أله |
| 18 | وَإِلَـٰهَwa-ilāha | and (the) God | أله |
| 19 | ءَابَآئِكَābāika | (of) your forefathers | أبو |
| 20 | إِبْرَٰهِـۧمَib'rāhīma | Ibrahim | — |
| 21 | وَإِسْمَـٰعِيلَwa-is'māʿīla | and Ishmael | — |
| 22 | وَإِسْحَـٰقَwa-is'ḥāqa | and Isaac | — |
| 23 | إِلَـٰهًۭاilāhan | God | أله |
| 24 | وَٰحِدًۭاwāḥidan | One | وحد |
| 25 | وَنَحْنُwanaḥnu | And we | — |
| 26 | لَهُۥlahu | to Him | — |
| 27 | مُسْلِمُونَmus'limūna | (are) submissive | سلم |