النمل
An-Naml
Surah 27
Verse 38
النمل
The Ant • makkah
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العربیّا عثمانی (Arabic Uthmani)
English - Hazrat Molavi Sher Ali ra
English - Five Volume Translation
English - Short Commentary Translation
English - Topics
27:38
ٱرْجِعْ إِلَيْهِمْ فَلَنَأْتِيَنَّهُم بِجُنُودٍ لَّا قِبَلَ لَهُم بِهَا وَلَنُخْرِجَنَّهُم مِّنْهَآ أَذِلَّةً وَهُمْ صَٰغِرُونَ
English - Hazrat Molavi Sher Ali ra
‘Go back to them, for we shall surely come to them with hosts against which they will have no power, and we shall drive them out from there disgraced, and they will be humbled.’
English - Five Volume Translation
Go back to them, for we shall surely come to them with hosts against which they will have no power, and we shall drive them out from there disgraced, and they will be humbled.’[2838]
Important Words:
قبل (power) is derived from قبل (qabala). They say قبل علی الشیء i.e. he took to the thing and stuck to it.
قبل المکان means, he came to the place. قبل (qibalun) means, side, direction, presence; power, strength, authority. They say مالی به قبل i.e. there is no power for me against him, أتانی من قبله means, he came to me from his presence or his direction (Aqrab).
English - Short Commentary Translation
‘Go back to them, for we shall surely come to them with hosts against which they will have no power of resistance,[2170] and we shall drive them out of their land disgraced, and they will be humbled.’
Qibal means, power, strength, authority. They say mali bihi Qibalun, i.e. I have no power against him (Aqrab).