| The Monotheist Group | 17:36 And do not uphold what you have no knowledge of. For the hearing, eyesight, and mind, all these you are responsible for. |
| Shabbir Ahmed | 17:36 And you shall not follow blindly any information of which you have no direct knowledge. (Using your faculties of perception and conception) you must verify it for yourself. In the Court of your Lord, you will be held accountable for your hearing, sight, and the faculty of reasoning. 16 |
| The Monotheist Group | 17:37 And do not walk in the land arrogantly, for you will not penetrate the Earth, nor will you reach the mountains in height. |
| Shabbir Ahmed | 17:37 Do not walk on earth with pride. Neither could you bore through the earth, nor could you become as tall as the mountains. 17 |
| The Monotheist Group | 17:38 All of this is bad, and disliked by your Lord. |
| Shabbir Ahmed | 17:38 The evil of all this is detestable in the Sight of your Lord. |
| The Monotheist Group | 17:39 That is from what your Lord has inspired to you of the wisdom. And do not make with God another god, or you will be cast into Hell, blameworthy and regretting. |
| Shabbir Ahmed | 17:39 This is some of the wisdom your Lord has revealed to you. Do not set up with God any other god, lest you be cast into Hell, blameworthy and rejected. 18 |
| The Monotheist Group | 17:40 Has your Lord preferred for you the males, while He takes the females as angels? You are indeed saying a great thing! |
| Shabbir Ahmed | 17:40 What! Has your Lord distinguished you by giving you sons, and chosen for Himself daughters in the guise of angels? Certainly, you speak a monstrous word! 19 |
| The Monotheist Group | 17:41 And We have clarified in this Qur’an so they may remember, but it only increases their aversion! |
| Shabbir Ahmed | 17:41 We have explained things in various ways in this Quran so that they understand, but in only increases their flight from the truth. 20 |
| The Monotheist Group | 17:42 Say: “If there had been gods with Him as they say, then they would have tried to gain a way to the throne.” |
| Shabbir Ahmed | 17:42 Say, "If there were any other deities side by side with Him, as they claim, even those would have to find a way to the Lord of the Throne of Almightiness. |
| The Monotheist Group | 17:43 Be He glorified and High from what they say, a great falsehood. |
| Shabbir Ahmed | 17:43 Glorified is He, and High Exalted above what they say! |
| The Monotheist Group | 17:44 He is glorified by the seven universes and the Earth and who is in them, and there is not a thing but it glorifies His praise, but you do not comprehend their glorification. He is Compassionate, Forgiving. |
| Shabbir Ahmed | 17:44 All the seven Highs and their Lows, and all beings in them are working His Plan, displaying that He is Praiseworthy. All creatures are playing their role in the Universe. In your present state of knowledge, you do not understand their exact modes of action. God, the Clement, the Absolver of imperfections, sustains and maintains them in Order. |
| The Monotheist Group | 17:45 And when you read the Qur’an, We place between you and those who do not believe in the Hereafter an invisible barrier. |
| Shabbir Ahmed | 17:45 When you recite the Quran, We put an invisible veil between you and those who disbelieve in the Hereafter. 21 |
