قُلْ يَٰٓأَيُّهَا ٱلْكَٰفِرُونَ﴿١﴾
SAY: "O you who deny the truth!
പറയുക: ഓ സത്യനിഷേധികളേ!
لَآ أَعْبُدُ مَا تَعْبُدُونَ﴿٢﴾
"I do not worship that which you worship,
നിങ്ങൾ ആരാധിക്കുന്നതിനെ ഞാനൊരിക്കലും ആരാധിക്കുന്നില്ല,
وَلَآ أَنتُمْ عَٰبِدُونَ مَآ أَعْبُدُ﴿٣﴾
and neither do you worship that which I worship!1
ഞാൻ ആരാധിക്കുന്നതിനെ നിങ്ങളും ആരാധിക്കുന്നില്ല!
وَلَآ أَنَا۠ عَابِدٌۭ مَّا عَبَدتُّمْ﴿٤﴾
"And I will not worship that which you have [ever] worshipped,
നിങ്ങൾ (ഇതുവരെ) ആരാധിച്ചുപോന്ന യാതൊന്നിനെയും ഞാനൊരിക്കലും ആരാധിക്കുകയുമില്ല,
وَلَآ أَنتُمْ عَٰبِدُونَ مَآ أَعْبُدُ﴿٥﴾
and neither will you [ever] worship that which I worship.2
ഞാൻ ആരാധിക്കുന്നതിനെ നിങ്ങളും (ഒരിക്കലും) ആരാധിക്കുകയുമില്ല.
لَكُمْ دِينُكُمْ وَلِىَ دِينِ﴿٦﴾
Unto you, your moral law, and unto me, mine !"3
നിങ്ങൾക്ക് നിങ്ങളുടെ ധാർമ്മിക നിയമം, എനിക്ക് എന്റേതും!
Footnotes by Muhammad Asad
- 1. In the above rendering, the particle ma ("that which") alludes, on the one hand, to all positive concepts and ethical values - e.g., belief in God and the believer's self-surrender to Him - and, on the other, to false objects of worship and false values, such as man's belief in his own supposed "self- sufficiency" (cf. 96:6-7), or his overriding, almost compulsive "greed for more and more" (surah 102).
- 2. Sc., "so long as you are unwilling to abandon the false values which cause you to deny the truth ".
- 3. Lit., "unto me, my moral law". The primary significance of din is "obedience"; in particular, obedience to a law or to what is conceived as a system of established - and therefore binding - usages, i.e., something endowed with moral authority: hence "religion", "faith.' or "religious law" in the widest sense of these terms (cf. first half of note 249 on 2:256); or simply "moral law", as in the above instance as well as in 42:21, 95:7, 98:5 or 107:1.