سورة النّجْم
Surah Al-Najm 53:19
The Parts of the Qur‘ân · Verse 19 of 62
أَفَرَأَيْتُمُ اللَّاتَ وَالْعُزَّىٰ
Abdul Mannan Omar
Have you had a look at Lât and `Uzzâ (the gods of idolaters),
Abdullah Yusuf Ali
Have ye seen Lat. and 'Uzza,
Ahmed Ali
Have you considered Lat and ´Uzza,
12 more translations
Ali Unal
(As compared to that) have you considered al-Lat and al-‘Uzza?
Daryabadi
Have ye then considered Al-Lat and AL-´uzza:
Faridul Haque
So did you observe the idols Lat and Uzza?
Maulana Muhammad Ali
Have you then considered Lat and ëUzza,
Maulvi Sher Ali
Now tell me about L·t and Uzz?;
Muhammad Asad
HAVE YOU, then, ever considered [what you are worshipping in] Al-Lat and Al-'Uzza,
Muhammad Musin Khan
Have you then considered Al-Lat, and Al-'Uzza (two idols of the pagan Arabs)
Muhammad Pickthall
Have ye thought upon Al-Lat and Al-'Uzza
Muhammad Sarwar
(Can anything as such be considered true) of al-Lat, al-Uzza,
Muhammed ali Shakir
Have you then considered the Lat and the Uzza,
Rashad Khalifa
Compare this with the female idols Allaat and Al-`Uzzah.
Shabbir Ahmed
Have you thought about Lat, and ‘Uzza,
Commentary 53:19 After pointing out that the Holy Prophet (pbuh) was granted true insight into some of the most profound verities, the verse draws our attention to false…
أَفَرَأَيْتُمُ اللَّاتَ وَالْعُزَّىٰ
53:19 After pointing out that the Holy Prophet (pbuh) was granted true insight into some of the most profound verities, the verse draws our attention to false symbols, which people so often choose to invest with Divine Attributes, qualities and powers. In this instance, by way of example and contrast to the blasphemous imagery of the pagans epitomized in the triad of Lât, Manât and ‘Uzza. The three goddesses were regarded by them as God’s daughters. The verse also applies indirectly to the trinity of the Christians.
A sect called Zandîqs (Znâdiqatذنادقة) who claimed to be Muslims, but was in fact hypocrites (9:101) added a sentence after this verse that read as follows: These are the high deities, whose intercession will be accepted. This sentence fitted nicely into the wishful thinking of these hypocrites. They claimed that the Holy Prophet (pbuh) uttered these verses at the end of this verse in order to please the Makkans. Although in the entire Muslim world at all ages, no Qur’ân ever existed that contained these additional words, still the verse has been a target of attack by Christian missionaries based on the claims of the Zandîqs. Not only do the first six verses of this chapter strongly reject such a notion, but dozens of Qur’ânic verses reject this claim (cf. 69:43-48; 17:74). In fact such a sentence would be in total contradiction to the entire Qur’ânic teachings. Abû Bakr Baihaqî, Ibn Hazm, Râzî, Ibn Kathîr and other great Islamic authorities, all have taken a clear stance on this fabrication of the Zandîqs and strongly rejected their blasphemy. The claims of the Zandîqs that this was transmitted in the form of a Hadîth are baseless, and such a Hadîth is nowhere to be found in authentic Traditions of the Holy Prophet (pbuh). Baidzawî states that whosoever has invented this sentence is a mardûd – a rejected hypocrite (9:101).