فَاطِر : ٣

  • يَٰٓأَيُّهَا O
  • ٱلنَّاسُ mankind
  • ٱذۡكُرُواْ Remember
  • نِعۡمَتَ (the) Favor
  • ٱللَّهِ (of) Allah
  • عَلَيۡكُمۡۚ upon you
  • هَلۡ Is
  • مِنۡ (there) any
  • خَٰلِقٍ creator
  • غَيۡرُ other (than) Allah
  • ٱللَّهِ other (than) Allah
  • يَرۡزُقُكُم who provides for you
  • مِّنَ from
  • ٱلسَّمَآءِ the sky
  • وَٱلۡأَرۡضِۚ and the earth
  • لَآ (There is) no
  • إِلَٰهَ god
  • إِلَّا but
  • هُوَۖ He
  • فَأَنَّىٰ Then, how
  • تُؤۡفَكُونَ (are) you deluded
O mankind, remember the favor of Allāh upon you. Is there any creator other than Allāh who provides for you from the heaven and earth? There is no deity except Him, so how are you deluded?
O people, that is, the people of Mecca, remember God's grace to you, in His making you dwell within the [Meccan] Sanctuary and preventing raids against you. Is there any creator (min khaaliqin: min is extra; khaaliq is the subject) other than God (read ghayru'Llaahi or gharyri'Llaahi, as an adjectival qualification of khaaliq, 'creator', either concording with the [oblique] form [of min khaaliqin] or concording with the syntactical status [thereof]; the predicate of the subject [is the following]) who provides for you from the sky, rain, and, from the, earth?, vegetation (the interrogative is [actually] an affirmative, that is to say, 'there is no creator or provider other than Him). There is no god except Him. So how then do you deviate?, how are you turned away from affirming His Oneness when you already affirm that He is the Creator and the Provider?