Quran 36:66 — Yaseen, verse 66
M. A. S. Abdel Haleem · selected translation
If it had been Our will, We could have taken away their sight. They would have struggled to find the way, but how could they have seen it?
وَلَوْ نَشَاءُ لَطَمَسْنَا عَلَىٰ أَعْيُنِهِمْ فَاسْتَبَقُوا الصِّرَاطَ فَأَنَّىٰ يُبْصِرُونَ
walaw nashāu laṭamasnā ʿalā aʿyunihim fa-is'tabaqū l-ṣirāṭa fa-annā yub'ṣirūna
Other translations
- A. J. Arberry
- Did We will, We would have obliterated their eyes, then they would race to the path, but how would they see?
- Muhammad Asad
- NOW HAD IT BEEN Our will [that men should not be able to discern between right and wrong], We could surely have deprived them of their sight, so that they would stray forever from the [right] way: for how could they have had insight [into what is true]?
- Sahih International
- And if We willed, We could have obliterated their eyes, and they would race to [find] the path, and how could they see?
Words
| # | Word | Meaning | Root |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | وَلَوْwalaw | And if | — |
| 2 | نَشَآءُnashāu | We willed | شيأ |
| 3 | لَطَمَسْنَاlaṭamasnā | We (would have) surely obliterated | طمس |
| 4 | عَلَىٰٓʿalā | [over] | — |
| 5 | أَعْيُنِهِمْaʿyunihim | their eyes | عين |
| 6 | فَٱسْتَبَقُوا۟fa-is'tabaqū | then they (would) race | سبق |
| 7 | ٱلصِّرَٰطَl-ṣirāṭa | (to find) the path | صرط |
| 8 | فَأَنَّىٰfa-annā | then how | أني |
| 9 | يُبْصِرُونَyub'ṣirūna | (could) they see | بصر |