ٱلنَّحْل : ٣٦

  • وَلَقَدۡ And certainly
  • بَعَثۡنَا We sent
  • فِي into
  • كُلِّ every
  • أُمَّةٖ nation
  • رَّسُولًا a Messenger
  • أَنِ that
  • ٱعۡبُدُواْ Worship
  • ٱللَّهَ Allah
  • وَٱجۡتَنِبُواْ and avoid
  • ٱلطَّـٰغُوتَۖ the false deities
  • فَمِنۡهُم Then among them
  • مَّنۡ (were some) whom
  • هَدَى Allah guided
  • ٱللَّهُ Allah guided
  • وَمِنۡهُم and among them
  • مَّنۡ (were) some
  • حَقَّتۡ was justified
  • عَلَيۡهِ on them
  • ٱلضَّلَٰلَةُۚ the straying
  • فَسِيرُواْ So travel
  • فِي in
  • ٱلۡأَرۡضِ the earth
  • فَٱنظُرُواْ and see
  • كَيۡفَ how
  • كَانَ was
  • عَٰقِبَةُ the end
  • ٱلۡمُكَذِّبِينَ (of) the deniers
And We certainly sent into every nation a messenger, [saying], "Worship Allāh and avoid ṭāghūt."1 And among them were those whom Allāh guided, and among them were those upon whom error was [deservedly] decreed. So proceed [i.e., travel] through the earth and observe how was the end of the deniers.
Footnotes
1 - False objects of worship.
And verily We sent forth among every community a messenger, just as We have sent you forth among these [Meccans], [to say]: 'Worship God, profess [belief in] His Oneness, and shun false deities', graven images, and do not worship them. Then among them were some whom God guided, and they believed, and among them were some who deserved to be in error, according to God's knowledge, and so they did not believe. So travel, O disbelievers of Mecca, in the land and observe the nature of the consequence of those who denied, their messengers, in that they were destroyed.