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Surah al-Ghashiya (The Overwhelming ) 88 : 22

لَّسْتَ عَلَيْهِم بِمُصَيْطِرٍ

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 Muhsin Khan
 Pickthall
 Yusuf Ali
Quran Project
You are not over them a controller.

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Word Arabic word
(88:22:1)
lasta
You are not
(88:22:2)
(88:22:3)
bimuṣayṭirin
a controller

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Explanatory Note

You have no control over their hearts and you cannot compel them to adopt the faith. Men’s hearts are in the hands of God, the Merciful. Jihad, which means striving for God’s cause and which was later made a duty of the Prophet and all Muslims, did not aim at converting people to Islam by force. Its only aim was to remove all hindrances in the way of the Islamic message, so that it could be delivered freely, and people would not be prevented from listening to it or be persecuted for doing so. This is the role the Prophet can fulfil: to remove the obstacles which prevent him from delivering his message.

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The whole subject matter of the Surah indicates that this too is one of the earliest Surahs to be revealed; but this was the period when the Prophet had started preaching his message publicly, and the people of Makkah were hearing it and ignoring it carelessly and thoughtlessly.

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