سورة الکهف
Surah Al-Kahf 18:5
The Place of Refuge · Verse 5 of 110
مَا لَهُمْ بِهِ مِنْ عِلْمٍ وَلَا لِآبَائِهِمْ ۚ كَبُرَتْ كَلِمَةً تَخْرُجُ مِنْ أَفْوَاهِهِمْ ۚ إِنْ يَقُولُونَ إِلَّا كَذِبًا
Abdul Mannan Omar
(This is absolutely wrong.) They have no real knowledge of Him, nor (had) their fathers. Grievous is the word that comes out of their mouths. They speak naught but a lie.
Abdullah Yusuf Ali
No knowledge have they of such a thing, nor had their fathers. It is a grievous thing that issues from their mouths as a saying what they say is nothing but falsehood!
Ahmed Ali
They have no knowledge of this, as their fathers did not have. How terrible are the words they utter! They speak nothing but lies.
12 more translations
Ali Unal
Of that they have no knowledge (on which to base such an assertion), nor did their forefathers. Dreadful as a word is (that assertion) coming out of their mouths. Indeed they speak nothing but falsehood.
Daryabadi
No knowledge thereof have they, nor had their fathers. Odious is the word that cometh out of their mouths; they say not but a lie.
Faridul Haque
They do not have any knowledge of it - nor did their forefathers; profound is the word that comes out of their mouths; they only speak a lie.
Maulana Muhammad Ali
They have no knowledge of it, nor had their fathers. Grievous is the word that comes out of their mouths. They speak nothing but a lie.
Maulvi Sher Ali
No knowledge have they thereof, nor had their fathers. Monstrous is the word that comes out of their mouths. They speak naught but a lie.
Muhammad Asad
No knowledge whatever have they of Him, and neither had their forefathers: dreadful is this saying that comes out of their mouths, [and] nothing but falsehood do they utter!
Muhammad Musin Khan
No knowledge have they of such a thing, nor had their fathers. Mighty is the word that comes out of their mouths [i.e. He begot (took) sons and daughters]. They utter nothing but a lie.
Muhammad Pickthall
(A thing) whereof they have no knowledge, nor (had) their fathers, Dreadful is the word that cometh out of their mouths. They speak naught but a lie.
Muhammad Sarwar
Neither they nor their fathers had any knowledge of such utterance (that God has begotten a son). Whatever they say about (this matter) is vicious blasphemy and plain lies.
Muhammed ali Shakir
They have no knowledge of it, nor had their fathers; a grievous word it is that comes out of their mouths; they speak nothing but a lie.
Rashad Khalifa
They possess no knowledge about this, nor did their parents. What a blasphemy coming out of their mouths! What they utter is a gross lie.
Shabbir Ahmed
No knowledge whatsoever have they of Him, and neither did their forefathers. An outrageous statement it is that comes out of their mouths, and nothing but falsehood do they utter.
Commentary 18:5 In the statement, مَّا لَهُم بِهِ مِنْ عِلْمٍ - “They have no real knowledge of Him”, the pronoun bihî بِهِ refers to Allâh (Ibn Jarîr). Whosoever makes…
مَّا لَهُم بِهِ مِنْ عِلْمٍ وَلَا لِآبَائِهِمْ ۚ كَبُرَتْ كَلِمَةً تَخْرُجُ مِنْ أَفْوَاهِهِمْ ۚ إِن يَقُولُونَ إِلَّا كَذِبًا
18:5 In the statement, مَّا لَهُم بِهِ مِنْ عِلْمٍ - “They have no real knowledge of Him”, the pronoun bihî بِهِ refers to Allâh (Ibn Jarîr). Whosoever makes such a claim that Allâh has taken to Himself a son has no real knowledge of Him. Such an assertion is a mere dogma, devoid of proofs and contrary to logic; unable to withstand even cursory intellectual scrutiny. It is also a doctrine, which does not contribute to human guidance. Such a belief does not nourish our faculties and nor does it bring them to grow. The doctrine of the sonship of Jesus is based on stories about Jesus written decades or even centuries after his crucifixion. It is not substantiated by solid arguments, any Divine Book nor any claim by Jesus himself. The verse goes on to say that, the ancestors of the people holding this belief likewise had no knowledge about Him, as they themselves were pagans and polytheists. If we look at the sources of the Christian dogma of trinity, the virgin birth, and of atonement, we find striking similarities with ancient Greek and Roman mythologies. One has only to add some aspects of the Mithra mythology of the east, replace the name of Zeus and Apollo, with the name Jesus to find a belief system almost identical with Christianity. Teachers of Christianity may frequently utter the statement that God has a son, but it does not come from their hearts, since such words necessarily lack spirituality.