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Tafsir

Scholarly commentary explaining a verse — its context, its meaning and how the scholars have understood it.

An-Nahl 16:74

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فَلَا تَضْرِبُوا۟ لِلَّهِ ٱلْأَمْثَالَ ۚ إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ يَعْلَمُ وَأَنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ

So do not assert similarities to Allāh. Indeed, Allāh knows and you do not know.

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Tafsir Muyassar

Ministry of Islamic Affairs, Saudi Arabia

وإذا عَلِمتم أن الأصنام والأوثان لا تنفع، فلا تجعلوا -أيها الناس- لله أشباهًا مماثلين له مِن خَلْقه تشركونهم معه في العبادة. إن الله يعلم ما تفعلون، وأنتم غافلون لا تعلمون خطأكم وسوء عاقبتكم.

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