The Cattle
6. Al-'Anʿām
الأنعام

al-An‘ām (Cattle)

ٱلْأَنْعَام

6:9

وَلَوْ

جَعَلْنَاهُ

مَلَكًا

لَّجَعَلْنَاهُ

رَجُلًا

وَلَلَبَسْنَا

عَلَيْهِم

مَّا

يَلْبِسُونَ

wa-law jaʿalnāhu malakan la-jaʿalnāhu rajulan wa-la-labasnā ʿalayhim yalbisūna

Were We to have made him (Our Messenger) an angel, We would have made him resemble a human being and they would have again complained that the matter was as confusing to them as it is to them now.

Muhammad Sarwar