16. An-Nahl

With it He makes the crops grow for you and olives and date-palms and vines and all kinds of fruit. Surely in that which is mentioned there is a sign indicating His Oneness exalted He be for people who reflect upon His handiwork and therefore believe.

And He disposed for you the night and the day and the sun wa’l-shamsa read in the accusative as a supplement to what precedes it; or read wa’l-shamsu in the nominative as a subject of a new sentence and the moon and the stars also read both ways are disposed musakhkharātin read in the accusative as a circumstantial qualifier or in the nominative musakhkharātun as a predicate by His command by His will. Surely in that there are signs for people who understand a people who reflect.

And He has disposed for you whatever He has created for you in the earth of animals plants and otherwise diverse in hue such as red yellow green and otherwise. Surely in that there is a sign for people who remember a people who are admonished.

And He it is Who disposed the sea He it is Who subdued it that it might be sailed upon and dived in that you may eat from it fresh meat that is fish and bring forth from it ornaments which you wear namely pearls and coral. And you see observe the ships ploughing therein ploughing through the water that is cleaving it as they sail upon it coming and going with the same wind; and that you may seek wa-li-tabtaghū is a supplement to li-ta’kulū ‘that you may eat’ of His bounty exalted He be by way of commerce and that you might be thankful to God for all that.

— and landmarks as well by which you might find the roads landmarks such as mountains during the day and by the star meaning by the stars they are guided to the roads and to the direction of prayer qibla by night.

Is He then Who creates — namely God — as he who does not create namely idols so that you associate them with Him in worship? No. Will you not then remember this and so become believers?

And if you were to count God’s grace you could never reckon it number it precisely let alone be able to give thanks for it. Indeed God is Forgiving Merciful since He bestows graces upon you despite your shortcomings and your acts of disobedience.

And God knows what you keep secret and what you disclose.

And those whom you invoke tad‘ūna or read yad‘una ‘they invoke’ besides God namely the idols do not create anything but are themselves created fashioned from stones and other materials.