Word ٱلْوَدْقَ - Quran Morphology

English - Hazrat Molavi Sher Ali ^ra

Hast thou not seen that Allah drives the clouds, then joins them together, then piles them up so that thou seest rain issue forth from the midst thereof? And He sends down from the sky clouds like mountains wherein is hail, and He smites therewith whom He pleases, and turns it away from whom He pleases. The flash of its lightning may well-nigh take away the sight.

اردو ترجمہ مرزا طاہر احمد خلیفة المسیح الرابعؒ

کیا تو نے نہیں دیکھا کہ اللہ بادل کو چلاتا ہے پھر اُسے اکٹھا کر دیتا ہے پھر اسے تہہ بہ تہہ بنا دیتا ہے پھر تُو دیکھتا ہے کہ اس کے بیچ سے بارش نکلنے لگتی ہے۔ اور وہ بلندیوں سے یعنی ان پہاڑوں سے جو اُن میں واقع ہیں اَولے اتارتا ہے اور پھر جس پر چاہتا ہے اس پر انہیں برساتا ہے اور جس سے چاہے ان کا رخ پھیر دیتا ہے۔ بعید نہیں کہ اس کی بجلی کی چمک (ان کی) بینائیاں اُچک لے جائے۔

French

N’as-tu pas vu qu’Allāh pousse doucement les nuages, puis les réunit, puis les entasse, de sorte que tu vois de la pluie sortir de leur milieu ? Et Il fait descendre du ciel des nuages comme des montagnes dans lesquels se trouve de la grêle et Il en frappe qui Il veut, et Il l’écarte de qui Il veut. Peu s’en faut que l’éclat de l’éclair n’enlève la vue.

German

Hast du nicht gesehen, dass Allah die Wolken einhertreibt, dann sie zusammenfügt, dann sie aufeinander schichtet, dass du Regen hervorströmen siehst aus ihrer Mitte? Und Er sendet vom Himmel Berge (von Wolken) nieder, in denen Hagel ist, und Er trifft damit, wen Er will, und wendet ihn ab, von wem Er will. Der Glanz seines Blitzes benimmt fast das Augenlicht.

Chinese

你没见[d]安拉使云朵渐渐地飘荡, 继而把它集合起来, 然后把它堆叠在一起, 而后你看雨从云下降?。并且他 (安拉) 从高处即从那里的山岳下降冰雹, [e]用它打击他所意欲的人, 使它离开他所意欲的人。电光的闪耀几乎夺去 (他的) 视觉。[911]

Italian

Non vedi che Allah guida le nubi, quindi le unisce insieme, quindi le ammucchia, così che tu veda la pioggia uscire di mezzo ad esse? Ed Egli fa scendere dal cielo nubi come montagne, in cui c'è grandine, con la quale Egli colpisce chi vuole, tenendola lontano da chi vuole. Poco manca che il fulgore dei suoi lampi non tolga la vista.

Spanish

¿No has visto que Al‑lah mueve las nubes, después las reúne, a continuación las apila, para que veas caer la lluvia de en medio de ellas? Él envía desde el cielo nubes como montañas en las que hay granizo, y azota con él a quien Le place y libra de él a quien quiere. El resplandor de su relámpago está a punto de hacer perder la vista .

اردو تفسیرِ صغیر

کیا تو نے نہیں دیکھا کہ اللہ بادلوں کو آہستہ آہستہ ہانک کر لاتا ہے پھر ان کے درمیان اتصال پیدا کر دیتا ہے پھر ان کو تہ بہ تہ بنا دیتا ہے پھر تو دیکھتا ہے کہ ان کے اندر سے بارش ٹپکنے لگتی ہے اور وہ بادل میں سے بہت بڑے حجم کی چیزیں گراتا ہے جن میں سے بعض اولوں کی قسم کی ہوتی ہیں اور اس کو جس (قوم) تک چاہتا ہے پہنچا دیتا ہے اور جس سے چاہتا ہے اسے روک لیتا ہے قریب ہوتا ہے کہ اس کی بجلی کی روشنی بعض آنکھوں کو اندھا کر دے۔

English - Short Commentary Translation

Seest thou not that [b]Allah drives the clouds slowly, then joins them together, then piles them up so that thou seest rain issue forth from the midst thereof? And He sends down from the sky clouds like mountains wherein is hail, [c]and He smites therewith whom He pleases, and turns it away from whom He pleases. The flash of its lightning may well-nigh take away the sight.[2052]

English - Five Volume Translation

Hast thou not seen that [a]Allah drives the clouds, then joins them together, then piles them up so that thou seest rain issue forth from the midst thereof? And He sends down from the sky clouds like mountains wherein is hail, [b]and He smites therewith whom He pleases, and turns it away from whom He pleases. The flash of its lightning may well-nigh take away the sight.[2624]

30:49.

13:14.

Important Words:

رکاماً (piles up) is derived from رکم. They say رکم الشیء i.e. he heaped up, piled up or accumulated the thing; he collected together the thing and put one part of it upon another. رکام means, clouds or sand collected together and piled up (Lane & Aqrab).

ودق (rain) is derived from the root ودق (wadaqa). They say ودق الیه i.e. he became near to him. ودق السماء means, it rained. ودق السیف means, the sword became sharp. الودق means, rain, violent or gentle (Lane & Aqrab).

سنا (flash) is infinitive noun from سنا (sana). They say سنت النار i.e. the fire became high in its light. سنا البرق means, the lightning shone, shone brightly or gleamed or shot up. سنا means, light, or the light of lightning; or light shining or diffusing itself and rising, a high light; shining of weapons (Lane).

Commentary:

The verse gives another simile about the spiritual development of man and about the changes and processes which it undergoes to reach its perfection. The knowledge of such changes and processes is essential to the spiritual pilgrim because without such knowledge he may not know what turnings and crossroads he may have to meet on the way and consequently may despair of success. The verse purports to say that man’s spiritual development is like the formation of clouds from vapours. It begins in this way. The sun of God’s love and grace shines upon that inexhaustible store of man’s capacity to receive and assimilate the Divine Word with which he has been endowed and then it raises vapours which are moved about by the winds of Divine mercy. Just as in the earlier stages the vapours are not visible, so does the change wrought in the pilgrim’s mind by the Sun of Divine love and grace remain unfelt in the earlier stages of his spiritual development with the result that the impatient spiritual wayfarer sometimes loses patience and gives up the endeavour in despair. The simile points out that like invisible vapours which assume a visible form, the change in man’s moral and spiritual progress under Divine mercy assumes a palpable form and begins to be dimly perceptible. But the character and nature of the change is still in a formative stage, where it has not yet attained fixity and strength enough to be helpful to others. The progress, however, continues till like vapours that condense and take the form of showers of rain and sometimes of hail, the God-intoxicated spiritual wayfarer, who has donned the mantle of a Divine Messenger, becomes بشیر i.e. the Bearer of good news for the believers and نذیر i.e. Warner for those who reject the heavenly messages. Even among the believers his influence is not uniform; some benefit by his precept and practice more than the others according to their natural aptitudes, as are the different parts of earth benefited by rain according to the nature of the soil.

Or the significance of the verse may be that for some the revealed Law serves as timely rain which proves highly beneficial and for others it takes the form of hail and storm which brings in its wake destruction and ruin.

اردو ترجمہ مودودی

کیا تم دیکھتے نہیں ہو کہ اللہ بادل کو آہستہ آہستہ چلاتا ہے، پھر اس کے ٹکڑوں کو باہم جوڑتا ہے، پھر اسے سمیٹ کر ایک کثیف ابر بنا دیتا ہے، پھر تم دیکھتے ہو کہ اس کے خول میں سے بارش کے قطرے ٹپکتے چلے آتے ہیں اور وہ آسمان سے، اُن پہاڑوں کی بدولت جو اس میں بلند ہیں، اولے برساتا ہے، پھر جسے چاہتا ہے ان کا نقصان پہنچاتا ہے اور جسے چاہتا ہے ان سے بچا لیتا ہے اُس کی بجلی کی چمک نگاہوں کو خیرہ کیے دیتی ہے

English - Sahih

Do you not see that Allah drives clouds? Then He brings them together, then He makes them into a mass, and you see the rain emerge from within it. And He sends down from the sky, mountains [of clouds] within which is hail, and He strikes with it whom He wills and averts it from whom He wills. The flash of its lightening almost takes away the eyesight.

اردو ترجمہ احمد علی

کیا تو نے نہیں دیکھا الله ہی بادل کو چلاتا ہے پھر اسے ملاتا ہے پھر اسے تہہ بر تہہ کرتا ہے پھر تو بارش کو دیکھتا ہے کہ اس کے بیچ میں سے نکلتی ہے اور آسمان سے جو ان میں اولوں کے پہاڑ ہیں ان میں سے اولے برساتا ہے پھر انہیں جس پر چاہتا ہے گراتا ہے اور جس سے چاہتا ہے روک لیتا ہے قریب ہے کہ اس کی بجلی کی چمک آنکھوں کو لے جائے

English - Talal Itani

Do not you see that Allah drives clouds then joins between them then makes them (into) a mass, then you see the rain come forth from their midst? And He sends down from (the) sky, [from] mountains within it [of] (is) hail and He strikes with it whom He wills and averts it from whom He wills. Nearly (the) flash (of) its lighting takes away the sight.

Chinese Commentary ^*

Cross Refs:

d

30:49.

e

13:14.

911

这节经文可能意指, 对有些人说来, 启示的经典可以成为及时雨, 他们从中得到极大益处;而对另一些人说来, 启示的经典是冰雹, 带给他们的后果是毁灭。

اردہ تفصیرِ صغیر نوٹس ^*

English - Arberry

'hast thou not seen how God drives the clouds, then composes them, then converts them into a mass, then thou seest the rain issuing out of the midst of them? And He sends down out of heaven mountains, wherein is hail, so that He smites whom He will with it, and turns it aside from whom He will; wellnigh the gleam of His lightning snatches away the sight.

English - Maududi

Do you not observe that Allah makes the cloud move gently then joins its pieces together: then gathers it into a mass of thick cloud: then you see that rain-drops fall down from its midst: and He sends down hail out of the high up mountains in the heaven: then He smites with it whom He wills and turns it away from whom He pleases: then a flash of lightning from it dazzles the eyes.

English - Ahmed Ali

Have you not seen that God drives the clouds, then joins them together and puts them fold on fold. Then you see the rain fall through them; and He sends down hail from the sky where there are mountains of it, and strikes those with it whom He will, and wards it off from whomsoever He please. His lightning could snatch away their eyes.

English - Yusuf Ali

Seest thou not that Allah makes the clouds move gently, then joins them together, then makes them into a heap? - then wilt thou see rain issue forth from their midst. And He sends down from the sky mountain masses (of clouds) wherein is hail: He strikes therewith whom He pleases and He turns it away from whom He pleases, the vivid flash of His lightning well-nigh blinds the sight.

English - Five Volume Commentary ^*

Cross Refs:

a

30:49.

b

13:14.

2624

Important Words:

رکاماً (piles up) is derived from رکم. They say رکم الشیء i.e. he heaped up, piled up or accumulated the thing; he collected together the thing and put one part of it upon another. رکام means, clouds or sand collected together and piled up (Lane & Aqrab).

ودق (rain) is derived from the root ودق (wadaqa). They say ودق الیه i.e. he became near to him. ودق السماء means, it rained. ودق السیف means, the sword became sharp. الودق means, rain, violent or gentle (Lane & Aqrab).

سنا (flash) is infinitive noun from سنا (sana). They say سنت النار i.e. the fire became high in its light. سنا البرق means, the lightning shone, shone brightly or gleamed or shot up. سنا means, light, or the light of lightning; or light shining or diffusing itself and rising, a high light; shining of weapons (Lane).

Commentary:

The verse gives another simile about the spiritual development of man and about the changes and processes which it undergoes to reach its perfection. The knowledge of such changes and processes is essential to the spiritual pilgrim because without such knowledge he may not know what turnings and crossroads he may have to meet on the way and consequently may despair of success. The verse purports to say that man’s spiritual development is like the formation of clouds from vapours. It begins in this way. The sun of God’s love and grace shines upon that inexhaustible store of man’s capacity to receive and assimilate the Divine Word with which he has been endowed and then it raises vapours which are moved about by the winds of Divine mercy. Just as in the earlier stages the vapours are not visible, so does the change wrought in the pilgrim’s mind by the Sun of Divine love and grace remain unfelt in the earlier stages of his spiritual development with the result that the impatient spiritual wayfarer sometimes loses patience and gives up the endeavour in despair. The simile points out that like invisible vapours which assume a visible form, the change in man’s moral and spiritual progress under Divine mercy assumes a palpable form and begins to be dimly perceptible. But the character and nature of the change is still in a formative stage, where it has not yet attained fixity and strength enough to be helpful to others. The progress, however, continues till like vapours that condense and take the form of showers of rain and sometimes of hail, the God-intoxicated spiritual wayfarer, who has donned the mantle of a Divine Messenger, becomes بشیر i.e. the Bearer of good news for the believers and نذیر i.e. Warner for those who reject the heavenly messages. Even among the believers his influence is not uniform; some benefit by his precept and practice more than the others according to their natural aptitudes, as are the different parts of earth benefited by rain according to the nature of the soil.

Or the significance of the verse may be that for some the revealed Law serves as timely rain which proves highly beneficial and for others it takes the form of hail and storm which brings in its wake destruction and ruin.

English - Short Commentary Notes ^*

Cross Refs:

b

30:49.

c

13:14.

2052

The verse may signify that for some the revealed Law serves as timely rain which proves highly beneficial and for others it takes the form of hail and storm which brings in its wake destruction and ruin.

English - Pickthall

Hast thou not seen how Allah wafteth the clouds, then gathereth them, then maketh them layers, and thou seest the rain come forth from between them; He sendeth down from the heaven mountains wherein is hail, and smiteth therewith whom He will, and averteth it from whom He will. The flashing of His lightning all but snatcheth away the sight.

English - Muhammad Ali ^ra

Seest thou not that Allah drives along the clouds, then gathers them together, then piles them up, so that thou seest the rain coming forth from their midst? And He sends down from the heaven (clouds like) mountains, wherein is hail, afflicting therewith whom He pleases and turning it away from whom He pleases. The flash of His lightning almost takes away the sight.

English - Sir Muhammad Zafrullah Khan ^ra

Seest thou not that Allah wafts the clouds gently, then joins them together, then piles them up so that thou seest the rain issue forth from the midst thereof? He sends down from the clouds mountains of frozen matter and He causes it to fall on whom He pleases and turns it away from whom He pleases. The flash of His lightning may well-nigh take away the sight of some eyes.

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