6. Sura al-Anam [The Cattle], Mecca 55

The Quranic Text & Ali’s translation:

ذَلِكَ أَن لَّمْ يَكُن رَّبُّكَ مُهْلِكَ الْقُرَى بِظُلْمٍ وَأَهْلُهَا غَافِلُونَ ﴿١٣١﴾

6: 131. (The messengers were sent) thus, for thy Lord would not destroy for their wrongdoing men's habitations whilst their occupants were unwarned.

Transliteration Za_lika allam yakur rabbaka muhlikal qura_ bi zulmin wa ahluha_ ga_filu_n(a).

وَلِكُلٍّ دَرَجَاتٌ مِّمَّا عَمِلُواْ ...

6: 132. To all are degrees (or ranks) according to their deeds:

... وَمَا رَبُّكَ بِغَافِلٍ عَمَّا يَعْمَلُونَ ﴿١٣٢﴾

for thy Lord is not unmindful of anything that they do.

Transliteration Wa likullin daraja_tum mimma_'amilu_, wa ma_ rabbuka bi ga_filin 'amma_ ya'malu_n(a).

Other translations:

6: 131

Asad And so it is that your Sustainer would never destroy a community for its wrongdoing so long as its people are still unaware [of the meaning of the right and wrong]:

Pickthall This is because thy Lord destroy not the townships arbitrarily while their people are unconscious (of the wrong they do).

6: 132

Asad for all shall be judged according to their [conscious] deeds [note 117] – and your Sustainer is not unaware of what they do.

Pickthall For all there will be ranks from what they did. Thy Lord is not unaware of what they do.

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Ali’s comments:

954. On good and evil there are infinite degrees, in our deeds and motives: so will there be degrees in our spiritual position.

For everything is known to Allah, better than it is to ourselves.

Asad’s comments:

117 – Lit., “all shall have grades out of what they did”, i.e., consciously –since God does not take people to task for any wrong they may have committed unless it was done in conscious, contravention of a moral law already made clear to them by prophets.