The Bee
16. An-Naḥl
النحل

al-Naḥl (The Bee)

ٱلنَّحْل

16:75
16:75

ḍaraba llāhu mathalan ʿabdan mamlūkan yaqdiru ʿalā shayʾin wa-man razaqnāhu minnā rizqan ḥasanan fa-huwa yunfiqu minhu sirran wa-jahran hal yastawūna l-ḥamdu li-llāhi bal ʾaktharuhum yaʿlamūna

Allah draws a parable: a slave owned [by his master] who has no power over anything, and another one [a free man] whom We have provided a goodly provision and who spends out of it secretly and openly. Are they equal? All praise belongs to Allah. But most of them do not know.

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