هُود : ٨٨

  • قَالَ He said
  • يَٰقَوۡمِ O my people
  • أَرَءَيۡتُمۡ Do you see
  • إِن if
  • كُنتُ I am
  • عَلَىٰ on
  • بَيِّنَةٖ a clear evidence
  • مِّن from
  • رَّبِّي my Lord
  • وَرَزَقَنِي and He has provided me
  • مِنۡهُ from Himself
  • رِزۡقًا a good provision
  • حَسَنٗاۚ a good provision
  • وَمَآ And not
  • أُرِيدُ I intend
  • أَنۡ that
  • أُخَالِفَكُمۡ I differ from you
  • إِلَىٰ in
  • مَآ what
  • أَنۡهَىٰكُمۡ I forbid you
  • عَنۡهُۚ from it
  • إِنۡ Not
  • أُرِيدُ I intend
  • إِلَّا except
  • ٱلۡإِصۡلَٰحَ the reform
  • مَا as much as I am able
  • ٱسۡتَطَعۡتُۚ as much as I am able
  • وَمَا And not
  • تَوۡفِيقِيٓ (is) my success
  • إِلَّا except
  • بِٱللَّهِۚ with Allah
  • عَلَيۡهِ Upon Him
  • تَوَكَّلۡتُ I trust
  • وَإِلَيۡهِ and to Him
  • أُنِيبُ I turn
He said, "O my people, have you considered: if I am upon clear evidence from my Lord and He has provided me with a good provision from Him...?1 And I do not intend to differ from you in that which I have forbidden you; I only intend reform as much as I am able. And my success is not but through Allāh. Upon Him I have relied, and to Him I return.2
Footnotes
1 The conclusion of the sentence is estimated as "...would it not be my duty to warn you against corruption and disobedience?"
2 i.e., I turn to Allāh frequently in supplication and repentance.
He said, 'O my people, have you considered that I might be [acting] upon a clear proof from my Lord and that He has provided me with fair, wholesome, sustenance from Him?, should I then blemish it with what is unlawful, in the way of fraud or stinting? And I do not desire to be inconsistent, and then partake, in what I forbid you, thus committing the same. I desire only to set things right, in your case, by way of [enjoining] justice, so far as I am able. My success, my ability to do this [successfully] and [to enjoin] other acts of obedience, is only with God. In Him I trust and to Him I turn, I return, [repentant].