ٱلنِّسَاء : ٧٨

  • أَيۡنَمَا Wherever
  • تَكُونُواْ you be
  • يُدۡرِككُّمُ will overtake you
  • ٱلۡمَوۡتُ [the] death
  • وَلَوۡ even if
  • كُنتُمۡ you are
  • فِي in
  • بُرُوجٖ towers
  • مُّشَيَّدَةٖۗ lofty
  • وَإِن And if
  • تُصِبۡهُمۡ befalls them
  • حَسَنَةٞ any good
  • يَقُولُواْ they say
  • هَٰذِهِۦ This
  • مِنۡ (is)
  • عِندِ from
  • ٱللَّهِۖ Allah
  • وَإِن And if
  • تُصِبۡهُمۡ befalls them
  • سَيِّئَةٞ any evil
  • يَقُولُواْ they say
  • هَٰذِهِۦ This
  • مِنۡ (is) from
  • عِندِكَۚ you
  • قُلۡ Say
  • كُلّٞ All
  • مِّنۡ (is)
  • عِندِ from
  • ٱللَّهِۖ Allah
  • فَمَالِ So what (is wrong)
  • هَٰٓؤُلَآءِ (with) these
  • ٱلۡقَوۡمِ [the] people
  • لَا not
  • يَكَادُونَ do they seem
  • يَفۡقَهُونَ (to) understand
  • حَدِيثٗا any statement
Wherever you may be, death will overtake you, even if you should be within towers of lofty construction. But if good comes to them, they say, "This is from Allāh"; and if evil befalls them, they say,1 "This is from you." Say, "All [things] are from Allāh." So what is [the matter] with those people that they can hardly understand any statement?
Footnotes
1 Addressing the Prophet (ﷺ).
Wherever you may be, death will overtake you, though you should be in raised-up, lofty, towers', forts, so do not shrink from fighting for fear of death. And if a good thing, such as fertility and abundance, befalls them, the Jews, they say, 'This is from God'; but if an evil thing, such as drought or misfortune, befalls them, as it did with them when the Prophet may peace and salutation be upon him arrived in Medina, they say, 'This is from you', O Muhammad may peace and salutation be upon him, that is, from the bad luck [you bring]. Say, to them: 'Everything, good and evil, is from God.' What is wrong with this people that they do not understand, that is, they do not come close to comprehending, any words, delivered to them (the maa, 'what' [of maa li-haa'oolaa', 'what is wrong with these'] is an interrogative intended to provoke amazement at their extreme ignorance; to state that one cannot even come close to doing something is [rhetorically] more intense than saying that he cannot do it).