| مَا سَمِعْنَا بِهَٰذَا فِي الْمِلَّةِ الْآخِرَةِ إِنْ هَٰذَا إِلَّا اخْتِلَاقٌ |
| Asad | : | Never did we hear of [a claim like] this in any faith of latter days!10 It is nothing but [a mortal man's] invention! |
| Malik | : | We have not heard such a thing from anyone of the people of latter days (Jews and Christians): it is nothing but a fabrication. |
| Mustafa Khattab | : | We have never heard of this in the previous faith.1 This is nothing but a fabrication. |
| Pickthall | : | We have not heard of this in later religion. This is naught but an invention. |
| Yusuf Ali | : | "We never heard (the like) of this among the people of these latter days: this is nothing but a made-up tale! 4153 |
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I.e., "in any of the faiths prevalent in our days": an oblique reference to Christianity and its dogma of the Trinity, which contrasts with the Qur'anic concept of God's oneness and uniqueness, as well as to any other faith based on the belief in a multiplicity or multiform incarnation of divine powers (e.g., Hinduism with its triad of Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva). |
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'Whatever may have been the case in the past', they said, 'our own immediate ancestors worshipped these idols in Makkah and why should we give them up?' Self- complacency was stronger with them than Truth; and so they call Truth "a made-up tale"! Some Commentators interpret millat akhirat to refer to the last religion preached before Islam, viz. Christianity, which had itself departed from Monotheism to Trinity. |
