16:51

An-Nahl (The Bees)

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Dynamic translation

(16:51) Allah said, "Do not take-up two Allahs, there is only One Allah, so it is Me that you shall revere."

Arabic text

(16:51) وَقَالَ اللّهُ لاَ تَتَّخِذُواْ إِلهَيْنِ اثْنَيْنِ إِنَّمَا هُوَ إِلهٌ وَاحِدٌ فَإيَّايَ فَارْهَبُونِ

Connected ideas

(5:116) Allah will say, "O Jesus son of Mary, did you tell the people to take you and your mother as Allah besides Allah?" He said, "Be you glorified, I cannot say what I have no right to. If I had said it then You know it, You know what is in my soul while I do not know what is in Your soul. You are the Knower of the unseen."

(39:29) Allah gives the example of a man in whom there is separation («DID») and a man (who is) in console with (another) man (alter-ego). Are they identical in (this) example? Praise (must be given) to Allah. But most of them do not know it.