Skip to content
Ummah

Surah Al-An'aam · سُوْرَةُ الْاَنْعَامِ · Juz 8

Q 6:117

إِنَّ رَبَّكَ هُوَ أَعْلَمُ مَن يَضِلُّ عَن سَبِيلِهِۦ ۖ وَهُوَ أَعْلَمُ بِٱلْمُهْتَدِينَ

Translations

Indeed, your Lord is most knowing of who strays from His way, and He is most knowing of the [rightly] guided.
Sahih International · EN
Certes ton Seigneur connaît le mieux ceux qui s'égarent de Son sentier, et c'est Lui qui connaît le mieux les bien-guidés.
Muhammad Hamidullah · FR

Tafsir

Your Lord, O Messenger, knows best those people who are misled from His path; and He knows best those who are rightly guided to it. Nothing of that is hidden from Him.

Al-Mukhtasar fi Tafsir al-Quran · Tafsir Center for Quranic Studies
Read Ibn Kathir (Ibn Kathir (abridged, English))
And if you obey most of those on the earth, they will mislead you far away from Allah's path. They follow nothing but conjecture, and they do nothing but lie (116)Verily, your Lord! It is He Who knows best who strays from His way, and He knows best the rightly guided (117) Most People are Misguided Allah states that most of the people of the earth, are misguided. Allah said in other Ayat, وَلَقَدْ ضَلَّ قَبْلَهُمْ أَكْثَرُ الْأَوَّلِينَ (And indeed most of the men of old went astray before them.)[37:71] and, وَمَا أَكْثَرُ النَّاسِ وَلَوْ حَرَصْتَ بِمُؤْمِنِينَ (And most of mankind will not believe even if you eagerly desire it.)[12:103] They are misguided, yet they have doubts about their way, and they rely on wishful thinking and delusions. إِن يَتَّبِعُونَ إِلَّا الظَّنَّ وَإِنْ هُمْ إِلَّا يَخْرُصُونَ (They follow nothing but conjecture, and they do nothing but lie.) Thus, they fulfill Allah's decree and decision concerning them, هُوَ أَعْلَمُ مَن يَضِلُّ عَن سَبِيلِهِ (It is He Who knows best who strays from His way.) and facilitates that for him, وَهُوَ أَعْلَمُ بِالْمُهْتَدِينَ (And He knows best the rightly guided.) He facilitates that for them, all of them are facilitated for what He created them.

Arabic text: Tanzil (Uthmani). Translations: Sahih International (en), Muhammad Hamidullah (fr). tanzil.net