Quran 26:4 — Ash-Shu'araa, verse 4
M. A. S. Abdel Haleem · selected translation
If We had wished, We could have sent them down a sign from heaven, at which their necks would stay bowed in utter humility.
إِنْ نَشَأْ نُنَزِّلْ عَلَيْهِمْ مِنَ السَّمَاءِ آيَةً فَظَلَّتْ أَعْنَاقُهُمْ لَهَا خَاضِعِينَ
in nasha nunazzil ʿalayhim mina l-samāi āyatan faẓallat aʿnāquhum lahā khāḍiʿīna
Other translations
- A. J. Arberry
- If We will, We shall send down on them out of heaven a sign, so their necks will stay humbled to it.
- Muhammad Asad
- Had We so willed, We could have sent down unto them a message from the skies, so that their necks would [be forced to] bow down before it in humility.
- Sahih International
- If We willed, We could send down to them from the sky a sign for which their necks would remain humbled.
Words
| # | Word | Meaning | Root |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | إِنin | If | — |
| 2 | نَّشَأْnasha | We will | شيأ |
| 3 | نُنَزِّلْnunazzil | We can send down | نزل |
| 4 | عَلَيْهِمʿalayhim | to them | — |
| 5 | مِّنَmina | from | — |
| 6 | ٱلسَّمَآءِl-samāi | the sky | سمو |
| 7 | ءَايَةًۭāyatan | a Sign | أيي |
| 8 | فَظَلَّتْfaẓallat | so would bend | ظلل |
| 9 | أَعْنَـٰقُهُمْaʿnāquhum | their necks | عنق |
| 10 | لَهَاlahā | to it | — |
| 11 | خَـٰضِعِينَkhāḍiʿīna | (in) humility | خضع |