11.Surah Hud

The Quranic Text & Ali’s Version:

وَإِلَى عَادٍ أَخَاهُمْ هُودًا...   

11: 50.   To the 'Ad People (We sent) Hud, one of their own brethren.

...قَالَ يَا قَوْمِ اعْبُدُواْ اللّهَ مَا لَكُم مِّنْ إِلَـهٍ غَيْرُهُ...

He said:

"O my people! worship Allah!

ye have no other god but Him.

C1545. Cf. the story of Hud the Messenger of the 'Ad People, in 7:65-72. There the argument was how other Peoples treated their prophets as the Makkans were treating Al-Mustafa.

Here we see another point emphasized: the insolence of the 'Ad in obstinately adhering to false gods after the true God had been preached to them, Allah's grace to them, and finally Allah's justice in bringing them to book while the righteous were saved.

The locality in which the 'Ad flourished is indicated in n. 1040 to 7:65.

...إِنْ أَنتُمْ إِلاَّ مُفْتَرُونَ ﴿٥٠﴾  

(Your other gods) ye do nothing but invent!

Other versions:

11: 50 [ Hud, Mecca 52]

Asad “O my people! No reward do I ask of you for this [message]: my reward rests with none but Him who brought me into being. Will you not, then, use your reason?

Yusuf Ali "O my people! I ask of you no reward for this (Message). My reward is from none but Him Who created me: will ye not then understand?

Pickthall O my people! I ask of you no reward for it. Lo! my reward is the concern only of Him who made me. Have ye then no sense?

Yuksel "My people, I do not ask you for any wage, my wage is from the One who initiated me. Will you not reason?"

Transliteration Ya_ qaumi la_ as'alukum 'alaihi ajra_(n), in ajriya illa_ 'alal lazi fatarani, afala_ ta'qilu_n(a).