The Night Journey
17. Al-Isrā’
الإسراء
Page #288
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وَإِذْ
قُلْنَا
لَكَ
إِنَّ
رَبَّكَ
أَحَاطَ
بِالنَّاسِ
وَمَا
جَعَلْنَا
الرُّؤْيَا
الَّتِي
أَرَيْنَاكَ
إِلَّا
فِتْنَةً
لِّلنَّاسِ
وَالشَّجَرَةَ
الْمَلْعُونَةَ
فِي
الْقُرْآنِ
وَنُخَوِّفُهُمْ
فَمَا
يَزِيدُهُمْ
إِلَّا
طُغْيَانًا
كَبِيرًا
wa-ʾidh qulnā laka ʾinna rabbaka ʾaḥāṭa bi-n-nāsi wa-mā jaʿalnā r-ruʾyā llatī ʾaraynāka ʾillā fitnatan li-n-nāsi wa-sh-shajarata l-malʿūnata fī l-qurʾāni wa-nukhawwifuhum fa-mā yazīduhum ʾillā ṭughyānan kabīran
When We said to you, ‘Indeed your Lord encircles those people,’ We did not appoint the vision that We showed you except as a tribulation for the people and the tree cursed in the Quran. We warn them, but it only increases them in their outrageous rebellion.
— Ali Quli Qarai
Behold! We told thee that thy Lord doth encompass mankind round about: We granted the vision which We showed thee, but as a trial for men,- as also the Cursed Tree (mentioned) in the Qur'an: We put terror (and warning) into them, but it only increases their inordinate transgression!
