Quran 43:60 — Az-Zukhruf, verse 60
M. A. S. Abdel Haleem · selected translation
if it had been Our will, We could have made you angels, succeeding one another on earth.
وَلَوْ نَشَاءُ لَجَعَلْنَا مِنْكُمْ مَلَائِكَةً فِي الْأَرْضِ يَخْلُفُونَ
walaw nashāu lajaʿalnā minkum malāikatan fī l-arḍi yakhlufūna
Other translations
- A. J. Arberry
- Had We willed, We would have appointed angels among you to be successors in the earth.
- Muhammad Asad
- And had We so willed, [O you who worship angels,] We could indeed have made you into angels succeeding one another on earth!
- Sahih International
- And if We willed, We could have made [instead] of you angels succeeding [one another] on the earth.
Words
| # | Word | Meaning | Root |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | وَلَوْwalaw | And if | — |
| 2 | نَشَآءُnashāu | We willed | شيأ |
| 3 | لَجَعَلْنَاlajaʿalnā | surely We (could have) made | جعل |
| 4 | مِنكُمminkum | among you | — |
| 5 | مَّلَـٰٓئِكَةًۭmalāikatan | Angels | ملك |
| 6 | فِىfī | in | — |
| 7 | ٱلْأَرْضِl-arḍi | the earth | أرض |
| 8 | يَخْلُفُونَyakhlufūna | succeeding | خلف |