يُونُس : ١٢

  • وَإِذَا And when
  • مَسَّ touches
  • ٱلۡإِنسَٰنَ the man
  • ٱلضُّرُّ the affliction
  • دَعَانَا he calls Us
  • لِجَنۢبِهِۦٓ (lying) on his side
  • أَوۡ or
  • قَاعِدًا sitting
  • أَوۡ or
  • قَآئِمٗا standing
  • فَلَمَّا But when
  • كَشَفۡنَا We remove
  • عَنۡهُ from him
  • ضُرَّهُۥ his affliction
  • مَرَّ he passes on
  • كَأَن as if he
  • لَّمۡ (had) not
  • يَدۡعُنَآ called Us
  • إِلَىٰ for
  • ضُرّٖ (the) affliction
  • مَّسَّهُۥۚ (that) touched him
  • كَذَٰلِكَ Thus
  • زُيِّنَ (it) is made fair seeming
  • لِلۡمُسۡرِفِينَ to the extravagant
  • مَا what
  • كَانُواْ they used (to)
  • يَعۡمَلُونَ do
And when affliction touches man, he calls upon Us, whether lying on his side or sitting or standing; but when We remove from him his affliction, he continues [in disobedience] as if he had never called upon Us to [remove] an affliction that touched him. Thus is made pleasing to the transgressors that which they have been doing.
If misfortune, illness or poverty, should befall a, disbelieving, man, he calls upon Us on his side, that is, lying down, or sitting or standing, in other words, in every state; but when We have relieved him of his misfortune, he passes on, in his unbelief, as if (ka-an is softened, its subject omitted, in other words [read as] ka-annahu) he had never called upon Us because of a misfortune that befell him. So, in the same way that supplication during misfortune and abstention [from supplication] in times of comfort were adorned for him, is adorned for the prodigal, the idolaters, that which they do.