سُوْرَةُ الْاَنْعَامِ
Surah Al-An'aam (6) — Ayah 135
قُلْ يَـٰقَوْمِ ٱعْمَلُوا۟ عَلَىٰ مَكَانَتِكُمْ إِنِّى عَامِلٌ ۖ فَسَوْفَ تَعْلَمُونَ مَن تَكُونُ لَهُۥ عَـٰقِبَةُ ٱلدَّارِ ۗ إِنَّهُۥ لَا يُفْلِحُ ٱلظَّـٰلِمُونَ ﴿135﴾
Translation by Dr. Muhammad Muhsin Khan & Dr. Taqi-ud-Din al-Hilali
Say (O Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم): "O my people! Work according to your way, surely, I too am working (in my way), and you will come to know for which of us will be the (happy) end in the Hereafter. Certainly the Zâlimûn (polytheists and wrong-doers) will not be successful."
Word by Word — Arabic, Transliteration & Meaning
قُلْ
qul
Say
يَـٰقَوْمِ
yāqawmi
O my people
ٱعْمَلُوا۟
iʿ'malū
Work
عَلَىٰ
ʿalā
on
مَكَانَتِكُمْ
makānatikum
your position
إِنِّى
innī
Indeed, I am
عَامِلٌۭ ۖ
ʿāmilun
a worker
فَسَوْفَ
fasawfa
And soon
تَعْلَمُونَ
taʿlamūna
you will know
مَن
man
who
تَكُونُ
takūnu
will have
لَهُۥ
lahu
for himself
عَـٰقِبَةُ
ʿāqibatu
(in) the end
ٱلدَّارِ ۗ
l-dāri
(a good) home
إِنَّهُۥ
innahu
Indeed [he]
لَا
lā
(will) not
يُفْلِحُ
yuf'liḥu
succeed
ٱلظَّـٰلِمُونَ
l-ẓālimūna
the wrongdoers
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135. Say: "O my people! Act according to your position, for I too am acting. Soon you will know whose end will be better. Surely, the wrongdoers will never succeed."
[142] That is, if you do not refrain from your wrong course, then remain firm upon it, and let me follow my own path. Soon, all of us will come to know whose end turns out to be better—ours or yours. In any case, it is certain that the wrongdoers never attain success, neither in this world nor in the Hereafter. Here, "wrongdoing" refers to shirk (associating partners with Allah), as Sayyiduna Luqman advised his son: "O my son! Never commit shirk, for shirk is indeed the greatest wrongdoing." And here, shirk is meant by wrongdoing because, ahead, some actions and rituals of the polytheists are going to be mentioned.
[142] That is, if you do not refrain from your wrong course, then remain firm upon it, and let me follow my own path. Soon, all of us will come to know whose end turns out to be better—ours or yours. In any case, it is certain that the wrongdoers never attain success, neither in this world nor in the Hereafter. Here, "wrongdoing" refers to shirk (associating partners with Allah), as Sayyiduna Luqman advised his son: "O my son! Never commit shirk, for shirk is indeed the greatest wrongdoing." And here, shirk is meant by wrongdoing because, ahead, some actions and rituals of the polytheists are going to be mentioned.
