سُوْرَةُ الرُّوْمِ
Surah Ar-Room (30) — Ayah 35
أَمْ أَنزَلْنَا عَلَيْهِمْ سُلْطَـٰنًا فَهُوَ يَتَكَلَّمُ بِمَا كَانُوا۟ بِهِۦ يُشْرِكُونَ ﴿35﴾
Translation by Dr. Muhammad Muhsin Khan & Dr. Taqi-ud-Din al-Hilali
Or have We revealed to them an authority (a Scripture), which speaks of that which they have been associating with Him?
Word by Word — Arabic, Transliteration & Meaning
أَمْ
am
Or
أَنزَلْنَا
anzalnā
have We sent
عَلَيْهِمْ
ʿalayhim
to them
سُلْطَـٰنًۭا
sul'ṭānan
an authority
فَهُوَ
fahuwa
and it
يَتَكَلَّمُ
yatakallamu
speaks
بِمَا
bimā
of what
كَانُوا۟
kānū
they were
بِهِۦ
bihi
with Him
يُشْرِكُونَ
yush'rikūna
associating
Tafsir Ahsan al-Bayan — Hafiz Salahuddin Yusuf
Tafsir Ahsan al-Bayan is a well-known Quran commentary by Hafiz Salahuddin Yusuf, a renowned Salafi (Ahl al-Hadith) scholar from Pakistan. This tafsir explains the meanings of the Quran in accordance with the methodology of the Salaf (early righteous generations), relying on authentic sources and straightforward language. Due to its reliability and adherence to sound Islamic scholarship, the Saudi government publishes and distributes this tafsir among the Hujjaj (pilgrims) visiting the Haramain. The tafsir is originally written in Urdu, translated to English by tohed.com.
35-1 This is an interrogative of denial. That is, those whom they consider as partners of Allah and worship them, this is without any evidence; Allah has not revealed any evidence for it. How could Allah have sent down any evidence for the affirmation and permissibility of shirk, when He sent all the prophets precisely so that they would refute shirk and affirm tawheed? Thus, every prophet, upon coming, first and foremost preached tawheed to his people. And today, the people of tawheed, the Muslims, also have to preach tawheed and sunnah among the so-called Muslims, because the majority of the common Muslims are involved in shirk and bid‘ah.
