ٱلنُّور : ٥٥

  • وَعَدَ Allah (has) promised
  • ٱللَّهُ Allah (has) promised
  • ٱلَّذِينَ those who
  • ءَامَنُواْ believe
  • مِنكُمۡ among you
  • وَعَمِلُواْ and do
  • ٱلصَّـٰلِحَٰتِ righteous deeds
  • لَيَسۡتَخۡلِفَنَّهُمۡ surely He will grant them succession
  • فِي in
  • ٱلۡأَرۡضِ the earth
  • كَمَا as
  • ٱسۡتَخۡلَفَ He gave succession
  • ٱلَّذِينَ to those who
  • مِن (were) before them
  • قَبۡلِهِمۡ (were) before them
  • وَلَيُمَكِّنَنَّ and that He will surely establish
  • لَهُمۡ for them
  • دِينَهُمُ their religion
  • ٱلَّذِي which
  • ٱرۡتَضَىٰ He has approved
  • لَهُمۡ for them
  • وَلَيُبَدِّلَنَّهُم and surely He will change for them
  • مِّنۢ after
  • بَعۡدِ after
  • خَوۡفِهِمۡ their fear
  • أَمۡنٗاۚ security
  • يَعۡبُدُونَنِي (for) they worship Me
  • لَا not
  • يُشۡرِكُونَ they associate
  • بِي with Me
  • شَيۡـٔٗاۚ anything
  • وَمَن But whoever
  • كَفَرَ disbelieved
  • بَعۡدَ after
  • ذَٰلِكَ that
  • فَأُوْلَٰٓئِكَ then those
  • هُمُ [they]
  • ٱلۡفَٰسِقُونَ (are) the defiantly disobedient
Allāh has promised those who have believed among you and done righteous deeds that He will surely grant them succession [to authority] upon the earth just as He granted it to those before them and that He will surely establish for them [therein] their religion which He has preferred for them and that He will surely substitute for them, after their fear, security, [for] they worship Me, not associating anything with Me. But whoever disbelieves1 after that - then those are the defiantly disobedient.
Footnotes
1 i.e., denies the favor of Allāh or does not live by His ordinance.
God has promised those of you who believe and perform righteous deeds that He will surely make them successors in the earth, in place of the disbelievers, just as He made those, Israelites, who were before them successors, in place of the [ruling] tyrants ([the verb may be] read as active istakhlafa, 'He made [them] successors', or as passive istukhlifa, 'were made successors') and He will surely establish for them their religion which He has approved for them, namely, [the religion of] Islam, by making it prevail over all religions and enrich them throughout the land, so that they become masters thereof, and that He will give them in exchange (read wa-la-yubdilannahum or wa-la yubaddilannahum) after their fear, of disbelievers, security. And God fulfilled His promise to them in the way mentioned, and He praises them with His words: 'They worship Me, without associating anything with Me' (ya'budoonanee laa yushrikoona bee shay'an is an [independent] new sentence, standing as a justification [for His promise]). And whoever is ungrateful after that, bestowal of grace, from among them, [whoever is ungrateful] for it, those, they are the immoral. The first to show ingratitude for that [grace of God] were the murderers of 'Uthmaan [ibn 'Affaan], may God be pleased with him, and they began to kill one another [henceforth] after having been brothers.