سُوْرَةُ النِّسَآءِ
Surah An-Nisaa (4) — Ayah 82
أَفَلَا يَتَدَبَّرُونَ ٱلْقُرْءَانَ ۚ وَلَوْ كَانَ مِنْ عِندِ غَيْرِ ٱللَّهِ لَوَجَدُوا۟ فِيهِ ٱخْتِلَـٰفًا كَثِيرًا ﴿82﴾
Translation by Dr. Muhammad Muhsin Khan & Dr. Taqi-ud-Din al-Hilali
Do they not then consider the Qur’ân carefully? Had it been from other than Allâh, they would surely have found therein many a contradiction.
Word by Word — Arabic, Transliteration & Meaning
أَفَلَا
afalā
Then (do) not
يَتَدَبَّرُونَ
yatadabbarūna
they ponder
ٱلْقُرْءَانَ ۚ
l-qur'āna
(on) the Quran
وَلَوْ
walaw
And if
كَانَ
kāna
it had (been)
مِنْ
min
(of)
عِندِ
ʿindi
from
غَيْرِ
ghayri
other than
ٱللَّهِ
l-lahi
Allah
لَوَجَدُوا۟
lawajadū
surely they (would have) found
فِيهِ
fīhi
in it
ٱخْتِلَـٰفًۭا
ikh'tilāfan
contradiction
كَثِيرًۭا
kathīran
much
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.
82. 1. Emphasis is being placed on reflecting and pondering over the Noble Quran in order to seek guidance from it, and a criterion is also being mentioned to verify its authenticity: if this were the speech of a human (as the disbelievers think), there would have been contradictions and inconsistencies in its subjects and the events described. Because, firstly, this is not a small book. It is a voluminous and detailed book, every part of which is distinguished in its miraculous eloquence. Whereas in a large composition made by a human, the standard of language and its eloquence and rhetoric cannot be maintained. Secondly, it contains accounts of previous nations, which no one except Allah, the Knower of the unseen, can narrate. Thirdly, in these stories and narratives, there is neither mutual contradiction nor does even the smallest detail of them conflict with any principle of the Quran. Whereas when a human narrates past events, the links of continuity break and there are contradictions and inconsistencies in their details. The clear meaning of the Noble Quran being free from all these human shortcomings is that it is certainly the speech of Allah, which He revealed through an angel to His last Messenger, Muhammad, the Messenger of Allah ﷺ.
