The Criterion
25. Al-Furqān
الفرقان
Page #361
25:18
قَالُوا
سُبْحَانَكَ
مَا
كَانَ
يَنبَغِي
لَنَا
أَن
نَّتَّخِذَ
مِن
دُونِكَ
مِنْ
أَوْلِيَاءَ
وَلَكِن
مَّتَّعْتَهُمْ
وَآبَاءَهُمْ
حَتَّى
نَسُوا
الذِّكْرَ
وَكَانُوا
قَوْمًا
بُورًا
qālū subḥānaka mā kāna yanbaghī lanā ʾan nattakhidha min dūnika min ʾawliyāʾa wa-lākin mattaʿtahum wa-ʾābāʾahum ḥattā nasū dh-dhikra wa-kānū qawman būran
They will say, ‘Immaculate are You! It does not behoove us to take any wali in Your stead! But You provided for them and their fathers until they forgot the Reminder, and they were a ruined lot.’
— Ali Quli Qarai
They will say: "Glory to Thee! not meet was it for us that we should take for protectors others besides Thee: But Thou didst bestow, on them and their fathers, good things (in life), until they forgot the Message: for they were a people (worthless and) lost."
