The Heights
7. Al-A'rāf
الأعراف
al-A‘rāf (The Elevations)
ٱلْأَعْرَاف
7:71
قَالَ
قَدْ
وَقَعَ
عَلَيْكُم
مِّن
رَّبِّكُمْ
رِجْسٌ
وَغَضَبٌ
أَتُجَادِلُونَنِي
فِي
أَسْمَاءٍ
سَمَّيْتُمُوهَا
أَنتُمْ
وَآبَاؤُكُم
مَّا
نَزَّلَ
اللَّهُ
بِهَا
مِن
سُلْطَانٍ
فَانتَظِرُوا
إِنِّي
مَعَكُم
مِّنَ
الْمُنتَظِرِينَ
qāla qad waqaʿa ʿalaykum min rabbikum rijsun wa-ghaḍabun ʾa-tujādilūnanī fī ʾasmāʾin sammaytumūhā ʾantum wa-ʾābāʾukum mā nazzala llāhu bihā min sulṭānin fa-ntaẓirū ʾinnī maʿakum mina l-muntaẓirīna
He replied, "You will certainly be afflicted by wickedness and the wrath of God. Do you dispute with me about the names of that which you and your fathers have invented? God has given no authority to those names. Wait for God's decree and I, too, am waiting with you."
