ٱلْأَحْزَاب : ٧٢

  • إِنَّا Indeed
  • عَرَضۡنَا [We] offered
  • ٱلۡأَمَانَةَ the Trust
  • عَلَى to
  • ٱلسَّمَٰوَٰتِ the heavens
  • وَٱلۡأَرۡضِ and the earth
  • وَٱلۡجِبَالِ and the mountains
  • فَأَبَيۡنَ but they refused
  • أَن to
  • يَحۡمِلۡنَهَا bear it
  • وَأَشۡفَقۡنَ and they feared
  • مِنۡهَا from it
  • وَحَمَلَهَا but bore it
  • ٱلۡإِنسَٰنُۖ the man
  • إِنَّهُۥ Indeed he
  • كَانَ was
  • ظَلُومٗا very unjust
  • جَهُولٗا very ignorant
Indeed, We offered the Trust1 to the heavens and the earth and the mountains, and they declined to bear it and feared it; but man [undertook to] bear it. Indeed, he was unjust and ignorant.
Footnotes
1

The acceptance of obligations and obedience to Allāh.

[1215] Coveting its reward while forgetting the penalty for failure to keep his commitment.

Indeed We offered the Trust - [the obligation to] prayer and other matters which, when performed, result in reward and when neglected, result in punishment - to the skies and the earth and the mountains, and created in them the power of comprehension and speech [at the time of that offer], but they refused to bear it and were apprehensive of it; but man, Adam, undertook it, when it was offered to him. Truly he is a wrongdoer, to his own soul because of what he undertook, ignorant, of [the responsibility that comes with] it -