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Aya 73
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وَلا تُؤمِنوا إِلّا لِمَن تَبِعَ دينَكُم قُل إِنَّ الهُدىٰ هُدَى اللَّهِ أَن يُؤتىٰ أَحَدٌ مِثلَ ما أوتيتُم أَو يُحاجّوكُم عِندَ رَبِّكُم ۗ قُل إِنَّ الفَضلَ بِيَدِ اللَّهِ يُؤتيهِ مَن يَشاءُ ۗ وَاللَّهُ واسِعٌ عَليمٌ

Yusuf Ali

“And believe no one unless he follows your religion.” Say: “True guidance is the Guidance of God. (Fear ye) Lest a revelation1 be sent to someone (else) Like unto that which was sent unto you? or that those (Receiving such revelation) should engage you in argument before your Lord2?” Say: “All bounties are in the hand of God. He granteth them to whom He pleaseth: And God careth for all, and He knoweth all things.”
  • The two clauses following have been variously construed, and some translations leave the sense ambiguous. I have construed the conjunction “an to mean “lest”, as it undoubtedly does in 7:172, “an taqulu “, etc.
  • Cf. 2:26; 2:76. The People of the Book were doubly annoyed at the Muslims: (1) that they should (being outside their ranks) receive God’s revelations, and (2) that having received such revelations, they should be able to convict them out of their own scriptures before their Lord!