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Al-Qur'an Surah An-Najm Verse 4

An-Najm [53]: 4 ~ English Qur'an Word By Word and Multi Tafseer

اِنْ هُوَ اِلَّا وَحْيٌ يُّوْحٰىۙ (النجم : ٥٣)

in
إِنْ
Not
huwa
هُوَ
it
illā
إِلَّا
(is) except
waḥyun
وَحْىٌ
a revelation
yūḥā
يُوحَىٰ
revealed

Transliteration:

In huwa illaa Wahyuny yoohaa (QS. an-Najm:4)

English / Sahih Translation:

It is not but a revelation revealed, (QS. An-Najm, ayah 4)

Mufti Taqi Usmani

It is but revelation revealed (to him).

Dr. Mustafa Khattab, the Clear Quran

It is only a revelation sent down ˹to him˺.

Ruwwad Translation Center

It is but a revelation sent down [to him].

A. J. Arberry

This is naught but a revelation revealed,

Abdul Haleem

The Quran is nothing less than a revelation that is sent to him.

Abdul Majid Daryabadi

It is but a revelation revealed.

Abdullah Yusuf Ali

It is no less than inspiration sent down to him;

Abul Ala Maududi

This is nothing but a revelation that is conveyed to him,

Ahmed Ali

This is only revelation communicated,

Ahmed Raza Khan

It is but a divine revelation, which is revealed to him.

Ali Quli Qarai

it is just a revelation that is revealed [to him],

Ali Ünal

That (which he conveys to you) is but a Revelation that is revealed to him.

Amatul Rahman Omar

This (Qur´ân) is nothing but (pure) revelation, revealed (to him by God).

English Literal

That truly it is except inspiration/revelation (that) is being inspired/revealed .

Faridul Haque

It is but a divine revelation, which is revealed to him.

Hamid S. Aziz

It (the Quran) is naught but revelation that is inspired (sent down to him);

Hilali & Khan

It is only an Inspiration that is inspired.

Maulana Mohammad Ali

Nor does he speak out of desire.

Mohammad Habib Shakir

It is naught but revelation that is revealed,

Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall

It is naught save an inspiration that is inspired,

Muhammad Sarwar

It is a revelations which has been revealed to him

Qaribullah & Darwish

Indeed it is not except a Revelation which is revealed,

Safi-ur-Rahman al-Mubarakpuri

It is only a revelation revealed.

Wahiduddin Khan

It [the Quran] is nothing but revelation sent down to him.

Talal Itani

It is but a revelation revealed.

Tafsir jalalayn

It is but a revelation that is revealed, to him,

Tafseer Ibn Kathir

It is only a revelation revealed,

means, he only conveys to the people what he was commanded to convey, in its entirety without additions or deletions.

Imam Ahmad recorded that Abu Umamah said that he heard the Messenger of Allah say,

لَيَدْخُلَنَّ الْجَنَّةَ بِشَفَاعَةِ رَجُلٍ لَيْسَ بِنَبِيَ مِثْلُ الْحَيَّيْنِ أَوْ مِثْلُ أَحَدِ الْحَيَّيْنِ رَبِيعَةَ وَمُضَر

Verily, numbers similar to the two tribes, or one of them, Rabi`ah and Mudar, will enter Paradise on account of the intercession of one man, who is not a Prophet.

A man asked, "O Allah's Messenger! Is not Rabi`ah a subtribe of Mudar."

The Prophet said,

إِنَّمَا أَقُولُ مَا أَقُول

I said what I said.

Imam Ahmad recorded that Abdullah bin `Amr said,

"I used to record everything I heard from the Messenger of Allah so it would be preserved. The Quraysh discouraged me from this, saying, `You record everything you hear from the Messenger of Allah, even though he is human and sometimes speaks when he is angry.'

I stopped recording the Hadiths for a while, but later mentioned what they said to the Messenger of Allah, who said,

اكْتُبْ فَوَ الَّذِي نَفْسِي بِيَدِهِ مَا خَرَجَ مِنِّي إِلاَّ الْحَق


Write! By He in Whose Hand is my soul, every word that comes out of me is the Truth."

Abu Dawud also collected this Hadith