Al-Qur'an Surah An-Nahl Verse 17

Mufti Taqi Usmani

Is then the One who creates (everything) equal to one who does not create? Would you still pay no heed?

Dr. Mustafa Khattab, the Clear Quran

Can the One Who creates be equal to those who do not? Will you not then be mindful?

Ruwwad Translation Center

Is then He Who creates equal to one who cannot create? Will you not then take heed?

A. J. Arberry

Is He who creates as he who does not create? Will you not remember?

Abdul Haleem

Can He who creates be compared to one who cannot create? Why do you not take heed?

Abdul Majid Daryabadi

Is there one who createth like unto one who createth not? Will ye not then be admonished?

Abdullah Yusuf Ali

Is then He Who creates like one that creates not? Will ye not receive admonition?

Abul Ala Maududi

Is then the One Who creates like the one who does not create? Will you not, then, take heed?

Ahmed Ali

So, could one who creates be like one who cannot? Will you not then contemplate?

Ahmed Raza Khan

So will He Who creates ever be like one who does not create? So do you not heed advice?

Ali Quli Qarai

Is He who creates like one who does not create? Will you not then take admonition?

Ali Ünal

Is He then Who creates to be likened to him who does not create? Will you not reflect and be mindful?

Amatul Rahman Omar

Can He then Who creates (out of nothing) be like those who can create nought? Will you not then take heed?

English Literal

Is who creates as/like who does not create, so do you not mention/remember ?

Faridul Haque

So will He Who creates ever be like one who does not create? So do you not heed advice?

Hamid S. Aziz

Is He who creates like him who creates not? Will you then not remember (be mindful, aware)?

Hilali & Khan

Is then He, Who creates as one who creates not? Will you not then remember?

Maulana Mohammad Ali

And landmarks. And by the stars they find the right way.

Mohammad Habib Shakir

Is He then Who creates like him who does not create? Do you not then mind?

Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall

Is He then Who createth as him who createth not? Will ye not then remember?

Muhammad Sarwar

Is the One who can create equal to the one who cannot create anything? Why, then, will you not consider?

Qaribullah & Darwish

Is He who creates as he who does not create? Will you not remember?

Safi-ur-Rahman al-Mubarakpuri

Is then He Who creates the same as one who creates, not Will you not then reflect

Wahiduddin Khan

Is He, then, who creates like him who does not create? Will you not, then, take heed?

Talal Itani

Is He who creates like him who does not create? Will you not take a lesson?

Tafsir jalalayn

Is He then Who creates -- namely, God -- as he who does not create, namely, idols, so that you associate them with Him in worship? No. Will you not then remember, this, and so become believers?

Tafseer Ibn Kathir

Is then He, Who creates, the same as one who does not create! Will you not then reflect!

Then He shows His servants some of the many blessings He granted for them, and the many kinds of things that He has done for them.

He says;

وَإِن تَعُدُّواْ نِعْمَةَ اللّهِ لَا تُحْصُوهَا إِنَّ اللّهَ لَغَفُورٌ رَّحِيمٌ