قَدِ
ٱفۡتَرَيۡنَا
عَلَى
ٱللَّهِ
كَذِبًا
إِنۡ
عُدۡنَا
فِي
مِلَّتِكُم
بَعۡدَ
إِذۡ
نَجَّىٰنَا
ٱللَّهُ
مِنۡهَاۚ
وَمَا
يَكُونُ
لَنَآ
أَن
نَّعُودَ
فِيهَآ
إِلَّآ
أَن
يَشَآءَ
ٱللَّهُ
رَبُّنَاۚ
وَسِعَ
رَبُّنَا
كُلَّ
شَيۡءٍ
عِلۡمًاۚ
عَلَى
ٱللَّهِ
تَوَكَّلۡنَاۚ
رَبَّنَا
ٱفۡتَحۡ
بَيۡنَنَا
وَبَيۡنَ
قَوۡمِنَا
بِٱلۡحَقِّ
وَأَنتَ
خَيۡرُ
ٱلۡفَٰتِحِينَ
٨٩
We should have invented a lie against Allah if we returned to your religion after Allah hath rescued us from it. It is not for us to return to it unless Allah our Lord should (so) will. Our Lord comprehendeth all things in knowledge. In Allah do we put our trust. Our Lord! Decide with truth between us and our folk, for Thou art the best of those who make decision.
— M. Pickthall
We would have invented against Allāh a lie if we returned to your religion after Allāh had saved us from it. And it is not for us to return to it except that Allāh, our Lord, should will. Our Lord has encompassed all things in knowledge. Upon Allāh we have relied. Our Lord, decide between us and our people in truth, and You are the best of those who give decision."
— Saheeh International
"We should indeed invent a lie against Allah, if we returned to your ways after Allah hath rescued us therefrom; nor could we by any manner of means return thereto unless it be as in the will and plan of Allah, Our Lord. Our Lord can reach out to the utmost recesses of things by His knowledge. In the Allah is our trust. our Lord! decide Thou between us and our people in truth, for Thou art the best to decide."
— A. Yusuf Ali
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Ibn Kathir (Abridged)
Allah describes the way the disbelievers answered His ProphetShu` ayb and those who believed in him, by threatening them withexpulsion from their village, or with forceful reversion to thedisbeliever's religion.
The chiefs spoke the words mentioned here to the Messenger Shu`ayb, but intended it for t
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