Quran 2:266 — Al-Baqara, verse 266
M. A. S. Abdel Haleem · selected translation
Would any of you like to have a garden of palm trees and vines, graced with flowing streams and all kinds of produce, which, when you are afflicted with old age and feeble offspring, is struck by a fiery whirlwind and burnt down? In this way God makes His messages clear to you, so that you may reflect on them.
أَيَوَدُّ أَحَدُكُمْ أَنْ تَكُونَ لَهُ جَنَّةٌ مِنْ نَخِيلٍ وَأَعْنَابٍ تَجْرِي مِنْ تَحْتِهَا الْأَنْهَارُ لَهُ فِيهَا مِنْ كُلِّ الثَّمَرَاتِ وَأَصَابَهُ الْكِبَرُ وَلَهُ ذُرِّيَّةٌ ضُعَفَاءُ فَأَصَابَهَا إِعْصَارٌ فِيهِ نَارٌ فَاحْتَرَقَتْ ۗ كَذَٰلِكَ يُبَيِّنُ اللَّهُ لَكُمُ الْآيَاتِ لَعَلَّكُمْ تَتَفَكَّرُونَ
ayawaddu aḥadukum an takūna lahu jannatun min nakhīlin wa-aʿnābin tajrī min taḥtihā l-anhāru lahu fīhā min kulli l-thamarāti wa-aṣābahu l-kibaru walahu dhurriyyatun ḍuʿafāu fa-aṣābahā iʿ'ṣārun fīhi nārun fa-iḥ'taraqat kadhālika yubayyinu l-lahu lakumu l-āyāti laʿallakum tatafakkarūna
Other translations
- A. J. Arberry
- Would any of you wish to have a garden of palms and vines, with rivers flowing beneath it, and all manner of fruit there for him, then old age smites him, and he has seed, but weaklings, then a whirlwind with fire smites it, and it is consumed? So God makes clear the signs to you; haply you will reflect.
- Muhammad Asad
- Would any of you like to have a garden of date-palms and vines, through which running waters flow, and have all manner of fruit therein - and then be overtaken by old age, with only weak children to [look after] him-and then [see] it smitten by a fiery whirlwind and utterly scorched? In this way God makes clear His messages unto you, so that you might take thought.
- Sahih International
- Would one of you like to have a garden of palm trees and grapevines underneath which rivers flow in which he has from every fruit? But he is afflicted with old age and has weak [i.e., immature] offspring, and it is hit by a whirlwind containing fire and is burned. Thus does Allāh make clear to you [His] verses that you might give thought.
Words
| # | Word | Meaning | Root |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | أَيَوَدُّayawaddu | Would like | ودد |
| 2 | أَحَدُكُمْaḥadukum | any of you | أحد |
| 3 | أَنan | that | — |
| 4 | تَكُونَtakūna | it be | كون |
| 5 | لَهُۥlahu | for him | — |
| 6 | جَنَّةٌۭjannatun | a garden | جنن |
| 7 | مِّنmin | of | — |
| 8 | نَّخِيلٍۢnakhīlin | date-palms | نخل |
| 9 | وَأَعْنَابٍۢwa-aʿnābin | and grapevines | عنب |
| 10 | تَجْرِىtajrī | flowing | جري |
| 11 | مِنmin | [from] | — |
| 12 | تَحْتِهَاtaḥtihā | underneath it | تحت |
| 13 | ٱلْأَنْهَـٰرُl-anhāru | the rivers | نهر |
| 14 | لَهُۥlahu | for him | — |
| 15 | فِيهَاfīhā | in it | — |
| 16 | مِنmin | of | — |
| 17 | كُلِّkulli | all (kinds) | كلل |
| 18 | ٱلثَّمَرَٰتِl-thamarāti | (of) [the] fruits | ثمر |
| 19 | وَأَصَابَهُwa-aṣābahu | and strikes him | صوب |
| 20 | ٱلْكِبَرُl-kibaru | [the] old age | كبر |
| 21 | وَلَهُۥwalahu | and [for] his | — |
| 22 | ذُرِّيَّةٌۭdhurriyyatun | children | ذرر |
| 23 | ضُعَفَآءُḍuʿafāu | (are) weak | ضعف |
| 24 | فَأَصَابَهَآfa-aṣābahā | then falls on it | صوب |
| 25 | إِعْصَارٌۭiʿ'ṣārun | whirlwind | عصر |
| 26 | فِيهِfīhi | in it | — |
| 27 | نَارٌۭnārun | (is) fire | نور |
| 28 | فَٱحْتَرَقَتْ ۗfa-iḥ'taraqat | then it is burnt | حرق |
| 29 | كَذَٰلِكَkadhālika | Thus | — |
| 30 | يُبَيِّنُyubayyinu | makes clear | بين |
| 31 | ٱللَّهُl-lahu | Allah | أله |
| 32 | لَكُمُlakumu | for you | — |
| 33 | ٱلْـَٔايَـٰتِl-āyāti | (His) Signs | أيي |
| 34 | لَعَلَّكُمْlaʿallakum | so that you may | — |
| 35 | تَتَفَكَّرُونَtatafakkarūna | ponder | فكر |