ٱلْبَقَرَة : ٢٥٨

  • أَلَمۡ Did not
  • تَرَ you see
  • إِلَى [towards]
  • ٱلَّذِي the one who
  • حَآجَّ argued
  • إِبۡرَٰهِـۧمَ (with) Ibrahim
  • فِي concerning
  • رَبِّهِۦٓ his Lord
  • أَنۡ because
  • ءَاتَىٰهُ gave him
  • ٱللَّهُ Allah
  • ٱلۡمُلۡكَ the kingdom
  • إِذۡ When
  • قَالَ Said
  • إِبۡرَٰهِـۧمُ Ibrahim
  • رَبِّيَ My Lord
  • ٱلَّذِي (is) the One Who
  • يُحۡيِۦ grants life
  • وَيُمِيتُ and causes death
  • قَالَ He said
  • أَنَا۠ I
  • أُحۡيِۦ give life
  • وَأُمِيتُۖ and cause death
  • قَالَ Said
  • إِبۡرَٰهِـۧمُ Ibrahim
  • فَإِنَّ [Then] indeed
  • ٱللَّهَ Allah
  • يَأۡتِي brings up
  • بِٱلشَّمۡسِ the sun
  • مِنَ from
  • ٱلۡمَشۡرِقِ the east
  • فَأۡتِ so you bring
  • بِهَا it
  • مِنَ from
  • ٱلۡمَغۡرِبِ the west
  • فَبُهِتَ So became dumbfounded
  • ٱلَّذِي the one who
  • كَفَرَۗ disbelieved
  • وَٱللَّهُ and Allah
  • لَا (does) not
  • يَهۡدِي guide
  • ٱلۡقَوۡمَ the people
  • ٱلظَّـٰلِمِينَ (who are) [the] wrongdoers
Have you not considered the one who argued with Abraham about his Lord [merely] because Allāh had given him kingship? When Abraham said, "My Lord is the one who gives life and causes death," he said, "I give life and cause death." Abraham said, "Indeed, Allāh brings up the sun from the east, so bring it up from the west." So the disbeliever was overwhelmed [by astonishment], and Allāh does not guide the wrongdoing people.
Have you not seen him who disputed with Abraham, concerning his Lord, because of the fact, that God had given him the kingship?, that is, his arrogance towards this very grace of God: this was Nimrod (Nimrood). When (idh is a substitution for haajja, 'disputed') Abraham, in response to the other's question, 'Who is this Lord of yours to whom you are calling us?', said: 'My Lord is He who gives life, and makes to die', the One that creates life and death in bodies; he [Nimrod] said, 'I give life, by sparing, and make to die', by killing. He then had two men brought before him, killed one and spared the other. When Abraham realised that this man was a fool, Abraham, resorting to a more sophisticated argument, said: 'God brings the sun from the east; so bring, you, it from the west.' Then the disbeliever was confused, perplexed and amazed; and God guides not the folk who do evil, disbelieving, to the art of argument.