Will saythe foolish peopleofthe general populace,[What hasmade them turnfromtheir centre,that whichthey wereupon?]Say,[For the One iswhere the Sun risesand where it sets;He guideswhomHe desirestowardsa pathwaythat is straightforward.]
The foolish of the people will say: What hath turned them from the qiblah which they formerly observed? Say: Unto Allah belong the East and the West. He guideth whom He will unto a straight path.
- Pickthall, Marmaduke
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The foolish among the people will say, [What has turned them away from the qiblah they were following?] Say, [To Allah belong the east and the west. He guides whomever He wishes to a straight path.]
- Qarai, Ali Quli
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Fools will soon say, [What has made them (Muslims) change the direction to which they had been facing during their prayers (the qibla)?] (Muhammad), tell them, [Both the East and West belong to God and He guides (whomever He wants), to the right direction.]
- Sarwar, Muhammad
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The fools among the people will say: What has turned them from their qiblah which they had? Say: The East and the West belong only to Allah; He guides whom He likes to the right path.
- Shakir, Habib
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The foolish will ask, [What has made them turn away from their direction of prayer which they used to face?] Say, [The East and the West belong to God. He guides whom He pleases to the right path.]
- Wahiduddin Khan
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عنقریب احمق لوگ یہ کہیں گے کہ ان مسلمانوں کو اس قبلہ سے کس نے موڑ دیا ہے جس پر پہلے قائم تھے تو اے پیغمبر کہہ دیجئے کہ مشرق و مغرب سب خدا کے ہیں وہ جسے چاہتاہے صراط مستقیم کی ہدایت دے دیتا ہے
- Jawadi, Zeeshan
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نادان لوگ ضرور کہیں گے : اِنہیں کیا ہوا کہ پہلے یہ جس قبلے کی طرف رخ کر کے نماز پڑھتے تھے، اس سے یکایک پھر گئے؟ اے نبی، ان سے کہو: ——مشرق اور مغرب سب اللہ کے ہیں اللہ جسے چاہتا ہے، سیدھی راہ دکھا دیتا ہے
- Maududi, Abul A'ala
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اب کہیں گے بیوقوف لوگ، کس نے پھیردیامسلمانوں کو، ان کے اس قبلہ سے، جس پر تھے تم فرمادو کہ پورب پچھم (مشرق مغرب) سب اللہ ہی کا ہے جسے چاہے سیدھی راہ چلاتا ہے۔
- Ahmed Raza
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عنقریب بے وقوف لوگ کہیں گے کہ ان (مسلمانوں) کو کس چیز نے روگردان کر دیا۔ اس قبلہ (بیت المقدس) سے، جس پر وہ پہلے تھے (اے پیغمبر(ص)) کہہ دیجئے اللہ ہی کے لیے ہے مشرق اور مغرب بھی۔ وہ جسے چاہتا ہے سیدھے راستہ کی طرف ہدایت کرتا ہے (اس پر لگا دیتا ہے)۔
- Najafi, Muhammad
Will say the foolish people of the general populace, [What has made them turn from their centre, that which they were upon?] Say, [For the One is where the Sun rises and where it sets; He guides whom He desires towards a pathway that is straightforward.] [ 2 : 142 ]
قم | nation | group | come together | establish | carry out | assessed | estimated | evaluated
صرط | way | path
ال ⇐ الى | towards | to | directed at
شيأ | will | desire | wish
هد ⇐ هدى | to coerce / instruct / lead / convince / threat / guide / take step by step towards | to moderate | tranquil | calm | a set portion | part of bigger thing | the thing that is sent somewhere in a specific direction | old man's crouched back hump due to hunching over and moving at a slow steady pace (as if weighed by years of knowledge or experiences) | a smaller than usual hump of a camel (due to being regularly laden by weight) | something that which is being carried to somewhere
غر ⇐ غرب | to go or pass away | become distant | absent | go out of view | going far away | become hidden by way of dark | infection of eye which diminishes vision | foreign | banished | strangeness | violent | crow
شرق | rising | east | coming in to | running | Sun shine | fruit starting to show its colour | become bright | to become visible
له | him | it | that | his
عل ⇐ على | on | upon | over | elevate | raise | eminence | at | in | to | onto
كن | be | exist | are | is | become | was or has been there | being in a state
التى | whose | those | which | whom
قبل | centre | pivot | previous | direction | to put before | to give priority | front and center | make prominent | accept from
عن | in front of | from | rein | control | title | superscript | in lieu of | presenting | meddling | being inside | eyeing | perforate | visual | absolute | source
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