Al-Qur'an Surah Al-Haqqah Verse 47

Mufti Taqi Usmani

and none of you could have saved him from it.

Dr. Mustafa Khattab, the Clear Quran

and none of you could have shielded him ˹from Us˺!

Ruwwad Translation Center

and none of you could have rescued him.

A. J. Arberry

and not one of you could have defended him.

Abdul Haleem

and none of you could have defended him.

Abdul Majid Daryabadi

And not one of you would have withheld us from punishing him.

Abdullah Yusuf Ali

Nor could any of you withhold him (from Our wrath).

Abul Ala Maududi

and not one of you would have been able to withhold Us from doing so.

Ahmed Ali

And not one of you would have been able to stop (Us).

Ahmed Raza Khan

Then none among you would be his saviour.

Ali Quli Qarai

and none of you could have held Us off from him.

Ali Ünal

Then not one from among you could have shielded and saved him from Us.

Amatul Rahman Omar

Then none of you could have stopped (Us) from (punishing) him (and thus stood in Our way of dealing justly).

English Literal

So (there) is not from anyone from you preventing/hindering from (for) him.

Faridul Haque

Then none among you would be his saviour.

Hamid S. Aziz

And not one of you could have withheld Us from him.

Hilali & Khan

And none of you could withhold Us from (punishing) him.

Maulana Mohammad Ali

And We certainly know that some of you are rejectors.

Mohammad Habib Shakir

And not one of you could have withheld Us from him.

Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall

And not one of you could have held Us off from him.

Muhammad Sarwar

None of you would be able to prevent Us from doing this to him.

Qaribullah & Darwish

not one of you could have prevented it from him.

Safi-ur-Rahman al-Mubarakpuri

And none of you could have prevented it from him.

Wahiduddin Khan

and none of you could have held Us off from him.

Talal Itani

And none of you could have restrained Us from him.

Tafsir jalalayn

and not one of you (ahadin is the subject of m, min being extra, used to emphasise the negation; minkum is a circumstantial qualifier referring to ahadin) could have defended him (hjizna is the predicate of [the preceding] m, and it is used in the plural because ahad, when employed in a negatory context, denotes a plural sense; the [suffixed] pronoun in `anhu refers to the Prophet), in other words, there is none to prevent Us from punishing him.

Tafseer Ibn Kathir

And none of you could have prevented it from him.

means, `none of you would be able to come between Us and him if We wanted to do any of this to him.'

The meaning behind all of this is to say that he (Muhammad) is truthful, righteous and guided because Allah determined what he is to convey from Him, and Allah helps him with fantastic miracles and definite proofs.

Then Allah says,

وَإِنَّهُ لَتَذْكِرَةٌ لِّلْمُتَّقِينَ