11. Hud

And assuredly read wa-in or wa-inna to each that is to all creatures verily la-mā the mā is extra and the lām is in the place of an implied oath or a separator; a variant reading has lammā with the sense of illā ‘but’ making the preceding in for negation your Lord will pay for his works that is the requital thereof in full. Truly He is Aware of what they do knowing the inner and outer aspects thereof.

So remain upright acting in accordance with the commandment of your Lord and supplicating Him as you have been commanded and let him also remain upright he who repents who believes with you; and do not transgress do not overstep the bounds of God. Truly He sees what you do and will requite you for it.

And do not incline toward the evildoers through affection or adulation or by showing satisfaction with their actions lest the Fire touch smite you and you have besides God other than Him no protectors min awliyā’ min is extra to guard you from Him; and then you will not be helped you will not be protected from His chastisement.

And establish prayer at the two ends of the day at first light and before sunset that is pray in the morning at noon and in the afternoon and in some watches zulafan is the plural of zulfa a portion of the night that is at sunset and late evening. Indeed good deeds such as the five prayers annul misdeeds minor sins this was revealed regarding one who kissed a female stranger and told the Prophet s about it and then asked him ‘Is this verse true for me?’ and the Prophet said to him ‘It is so for every person of my community’ as reported by the two Shaykhs Bukhārī and Muslim. That is a remembrance for the mindful an admonition for those who heed them.

And be patient O Muhammad (s) in enduring the harm inflicted upon you by your people or in performing prayer for indeed God does not waste the wage of those who are virtuous by patiently enduring through acts of obedience to God.

If only there had been among the generations past communities before you men possessing a remnant of good sense men of religion and virtue forbidding corruption in the earth this statement is intended to be a negation in other words ‘there never were such men among them’ except but a few of those whom mimman min is explicative We delivered from among them did forbid corruption and were thus delivered. But those who did wrong through corruption and neglecting to forbid followed that by which they were made profligate and were sinners.

Yet your Lord would never destroy the towns through injustice on His part against them while their inhabitants were righteous that is believers.

Had your Lord willed He would have made mankind one community people of one religion but they continue to differ in religion

And all that kullān is in the accusative because it is the direct object of naqussu ‘We relate’; and the nunation compensates for a missing genitive annexation that is all that is necessary We relate to you of the accounts of the messengers that mā substitutes for kullan ‘all that’ with which We might strengthen reassure your heart. And in these accounts or verses there has come to you the Truth and an admonition and a reminder to the believers they are specifically mentioned here because they are the ones to benefit from them through their belief in them in contrast to the case with the disbelievers.