Quran 6:122 — Al-An'aam, verse 122
M. A. S. Abdel Haleem · selected translation
Is a dead person brought back to life by Us, and given light with which to walk among people, comparable to someone trapped in deep darkness who cannot escape? In this way the evil deeds of the disbelievers are made to seem alluring to them.
أَوَمَنْ كَانَ مَيْتًا فَأَحْيَيْنَاهُ وَجَعَلْنَا لَهُ نُورًا يَمْشِي بِهِ فِي النَّاسِ كَمَنْ مَثَلُهُ فِي الظُّلُمَاتِ لَيْسَ بِخَارِجٍ مِنْهَا ۚ كَذَٰلِكَ زُيِّنَ لِلْكَافِرِينَ مَا كَانُوا يَعْمَلُونَ
awaman kāna maytan fa-aḥyaynāhu wajaʿalnā lahu nūran yamshī bihi fī l-nāsi kaman mathaluhu fī l-ẓulumāti laysa bikhārijin min'hā kadhālika zuyyina lil'kāfirīna mā kānū yaʿmalūna
Other translations
- A. J. Arberry
- Why, is he who was dead, and We gave him life, and appointed for him a light to walk by among the people as one whose likeness is in the shadows, and comes not forth from them? So it is decked out fair to the unbelievers the things they have done.
- Muhammad Asad
- IS THEN -HE who was dead [in spirit] and whom We thereupon gave life, and for whom We set up a light whereby he might see his way among men - [is then he] like one [who is lost] in darkness deep, out of which he cannot emerge? [But] thus it is: goodly seem all their own doings to those who deny the truth.
- Sahih International
- And is one who was dead and We gave him life and made for him light by which to walk among the people like one who is in darkness, never to emerge therefrom? Thus it has been made pleasing to the disbelievers that which they were doing.
Words
| # | Word | Meaning | Root |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | أَوَمَنawaman | Is (one) who | — |
| 2 | كَانَkāna | was | كون |
| 3 | مَيْتًۭاmaytan | dead | موت |
| 4 | فَأَحْيَيْنَـٰهُfa-aḥyaynāhu | and We gave him life | حيي |
| 5 | وَجَعَلْنَاwajaʿalnā | and We made | جعل |
| 6 | لَهُۥlahu | for him | — |
| 7 | نُورًۭاnūran | light | نور |
| 8 | يَمْشِىyamshī | he walks | مشي |
| 9 | بِهِۦbihi | whereby | — |
| 10 | فِىfī | among | — |
| 11 | ٱلنَّاسِl-nāsi | the people | نوس |
| 12 | كَمَنkaman | like (one) who | — |
| 13 | مَّثَلُهُۥmathaluhu | [similar to him] | مثل |
| 14 | فِىfī | (is) in | — |
| 15 | ٱلظُّلُمَـٰتِl-ẓulumāti | the darknesses | ظلم |
| 16 | لَيْسَlaysa | not | ليس |
| 17 | بِخَارِجٍۢbikhārijin | he comes out | خرج |
| 18 | مِّنْهَا ۚmin'hā | of it | — |
| 19 | كَذَٰلِكَkadhālika | Thus | — |
| 20 | زُيِّنَzuyyina | is made fair-seeming | زين |
| 21 | لِلْكَـٰفِرِينَlil'kāfirīna | to the disbelievers | كفر |
| 22 | مَاmā | what | — |
| 23 | كَانُوا۟kānū | they were | كون |
| 24 | يَعْمَلُونَyaʿmalūna | doing | عمل |