ٱلْأَنْعَام : ٧٨

  • فَلَمَّا When
  • رَءَا he saw
  • ٱلشَّمۡسَ the sun
  • بَازِغَةٗ rising
  • قَالَ he said
  • هَٰذَا This (is)
  • رَبِّي my Lord
  • هَٰذَآ this (is)
  • أَكۡبَرُۖ greater
  • فَلَمَّآ But when
  • أَفَلَتۡ it set
  • قَالَ he said
  • يَٰقَوۡمِ O my people!
  • إِنِّي Indeed I am
  • بَرِيٓءٞ free
  • مِّمَّا of what
  • تُشۡرِكُونَ you associate (with Allah)
And when he saw the sun rising, he said, "This is my lord; this is greater." But when it set, he said, "O my people, indeed I am free from what you associate with Allāh.
And when he ﷺ the sun rising, he said, 'This is my Lord; this is greater!' than the star and the moon (the masculine [demonstrative pronoun] haadhaa, 'this', is used [for the feminine shams, 'sun'] because the predicate [rabbee, 'my Lord'] is masculine). But when it set, and the argument against them had become stronger and they still had not repented, he said, 'O my people, surely I am innocent of what you associate, with God, in the way of idols and accidental bodies, which require an originator. They then asked him, 'What do you worship?'