The Fickle Nature of Faith Among the Mushrikeen (Polytheists)
Luqman — Verses 32–32 | Explore this Quran theme on Muallim
وَإِذَا غَشِيَهُم مَّوْجٌ كَالظُّلَلِ دَعَوُا اللَّهَ مُخْلِصِينَ لَهُ الدِّينَ فَلَمَّا نَجَّاهُمْ إِلَى الْبَرِّ فَمِنْهُم مُّقْتَصِدٌ ۚ وَمَا يَجْحَدُ بِآيَاتِنَا إِلَّا كُلُّ خَتَّارٍ كَفُورٍ ٣٢
And when a wave covers them like shades (i.e. like clouds or the mountains of sea-water), they invoke Allah, making their invocations for Him only. But when He brings them safe to land, there are among them those that stop in the middle, between (Belief and disbelief). But none denies Our Signs except every perfidious ungrateful.
- وَإِذَا غَشِيَهُم مَّوْجٌ كَالظُّلَلِ
- And when a wave covers them like shades (i.e. like clouds or the mountains of sea-water),
- دَعَوُا اللَّهَ مُخْلِصِينَ لَهُ الدِّينَ
- they invoke Allah, making their invocations for Him only.
- فَلَمَّا نَجَّاهُمْ إِلَى الْبَرِّ
- But when He brings them safe to land,
- فَمِنْهُم مُّقْتَصِدٌ ۚ
- there are among them those that stop in the middle, between (Belief and disbelief).
- وَمَا يَجْحَدُ بِآيَاتِنَا إِلَّا كُلُّ خَتَّارٍ كَفُورٍ
- But none denies Our Signs except every perfidious ungrateful.