# 56. Surah Al-Waqi'ah, Verse 70 - **Surah:** 56. Surah Al-Waqi'ah (The Inevitable) — سورة الواقعة - **Verse:** 70 / 96 · **Juz:** 27 · **Mushaf page:** 535 - **Source:** https://quran.so/surah-al-waqiah/verse-70 ## Arabic لَوْ نَشَٓاءُ جَعَلْنَاهُ اُجَاجاً فَلَوْلَا تَشْكُرُونَ ## Transcription Law nashao jaAAalnahu ojajanfalawla tashkuroon ## Translations ### Aisha Bewley If We wished We could have made it bitter, so will you not give thanks? ### Progressive Muslims If We wished, We can make it salty. If only you would give thanks. ### Shabbir Ahmed If We willed, We surely could make it salty. Why, then, do you not show gratitude? (By devising an equitable system of provision for all). ### Sam Gerrans — The Qur'an: A Complete Revelation If We willed, We could make it bitter. Oh, that you were but grateful! ### The Monotheist Group — The Quran: A Monotheist Translation If We wished, We can make it salty. If only you would give thanks. ### Rashad Khalifa — The Final Testament If we will, we can make it salty. You should be thankful. ### Mohamed Ahmed - Samira We could make it brackish, if We pleased; so why do you not acknowledge thanks? ### Sahih International — (Umm Muhammad, Mary Kennedy, Amatullah Bantley) If We willed, We could make it bitter, so why are you not grateful? ### Muhammad Asad [It comes down sweet - but] were it Our will, We could make it burningly salty and bitter: why, then, do you not give thanks [unto Us]? ### Marmaduke Pickthall If We willed We verily could make it bitter. Why then, give ye not thanks? ### Abul A'la Maududi — Tafhim commentary If We had so pleased, We could have made it bitter.[1] So why would you not give thanks?[2] _Footnotes_ - [1] In this sentence an important manifestation of Allah’s power and wisdom has been pointed out. Among the wonderful properties that Allah has created in water, one property also is that no matter what different substances are dissolved in water, when it changes into vapor under the effect of heat, it leaves behind all adulterations and evaporates only with its original and actual component elements. Had it not possessed this property the dissolved substances also would have evaporated along with the water vapors. In this case the vapors that arise from the oceans would have contained the sea salt, which would have made the soil saline and uncultivable wherever it rained. Then, neither could man have survived by drinking that water, nor could it help grow any vegetation. Now, can a man possessed of any common sense claim that this wise property in water has come about by itself under some blind and deaf law of nature? This characteristic by virtue of which sweet, pure water is distilled from saltish seas and falls as rain, and then serves as a source of water-supply and irrigation in the form of rivers, canals, springs and wells, provides a clear proof of the fact that the Provider has endowed water with this property thoughtfully and deliberately for the purpose that it may become a means of sustenance for His creatures. The creatures that could be sustained by salt water were created by Him in the sea and there they flourish and multiply. But the creatures that He created on the land and in the air, stood in need of sweet water for their sustenance and before making arrangement of the rainfall for its supply, He created this property in water that at evaporation it should rise clear and free of everything dissolved in it. - [2] In other words, why do you commit this ingratitude in that some of you regard the rainfall as a favor of the gods, and some others think that the rising of the clouds from the sea and their raining as water is a natural cycle that is working by itself, and still others, while acknowledging it as a mercy and blessing of God, do not admit that God has any such right on them that they should bow to Him alone? How is it that while you derive so much benefit from this great blessing of Allah, in return you commit sins of disbelief and polytheism and disobedience of Him. ### Abdel Khalek Himmat — Al- Muntakhab Had We willed We could render it salty and embitter all the sweets of life so why are you not impelled to the feeling of gratitude! ### Bijan Moeinian If God had desired, He could have rained down salty water. Why are not you grateful [about the simplest things which are of the most importance for your survival]? ### Al-Hilali & Khan If We willed, We verily could make it salt (and undrinkable): why then do you not give thanks (to Allâh)? ### Abdullah Yusuf Ali Were it Our Will, We could make it salt (and unpalatable): then why do ye not give thanks? ### Mustafa Khattab — The Clear Quran If We willed, We could make it salty. Will you not then give thanks? ### Taqi Usmani If We so will, We can make it bitter in taste. So why do you not offer gratitude? ### Abdul Haleem If We wanted, We could make it bitter: will you not be thankful? ### Arthur John Arberry Did We will, We would make it bitter; so why are you not thankful? ### E. Henry Palmer If we pleased we could make it pungent - why then do ye not give thanks? ### Hamid S. Aziz If We willed, We could have made it salty; why do you not then give thanks? ### Mahmoud Ghali If We had (so) decided, We would have made it bitter; so had you only thanked (Us)! ### George Sale If We pleased, We could render the same brackish: Will ye not therefore give thanks? ### Syed Vickar Ahamed If it was Our Will We verily, could make it salt (and bitter) then why do you not give thanks (to Allah)? ### Amatul Rahman Omar If We (so) pleased We could make it brackish. Then why do you not give thanks? ### Ali Quli Qarai If We wish We can make it bitter. Then why do you not give thanks? ### Ahmed Hulusi — Türkçe Kur'an Çözümü Eğer dileseydik onu acı (bir su) kılardık. . . Şükretmeniz gerekmez mi? ### Ali Bulaç — Kur'an-ı Kerim ve Türkçe Anlamı Eğer dilemiş olsaydık onu tuzlu kılardık; şükretmeniz gerekmez mi? ### Bayraktar Bayraklı — Yeni Bir Anlayışın Işığında Kur'an Meali - İçtiğiniz suyu hiç düşündünüz mü? Siz mi onu buluttan indiriyorsunuz yoksa biz mi? Dileseydik onu acı yapardık. Hiç şükretmez misiniz? ### Diyanet İşleri — Kur'an-ı Kerim Türkçe Meali Dileseydik onu acı bir su yapardık. O halde şükretseydiniz ya!. ### Elmalılı Hamdi Yazır — Kur'an-ı Kerim ve Yüce Meali Dilesek onu acı bir çorak ediverirdik o halde şükretseniz a ### Elmalılı (sadeleştirilmiş) Dileseydik onu acı bir çorak yapardık. O halde şükretseniz ya! ### Gültekin Onan Eğer dilemiş olsaydık onu tuzlu kılardık; şükretmeniz gerekmez mi? ### Hasan Basri Çantay — Kur'an-ı Hakim ve Meal-i Kerim Eğer dileseydik onu (içilmeyecek) tuzlu bir su yapardık. O halde şükretmeli değil misiniz? ### İbni Kesir İsteseydik onu tuzlu bir su kılardık. Öyleyse şükretmeli değil misiniz? ### Muhammed Esed — Kur'an Mesajı (O tatlı bir su şeklinde iner, ama) dileseydik yakacak kadar tuzlu ve acı yapabilirdik. Öyleyse neden (Bize) şükretmiyorsunuz? ### Şaban Piriş — Kur'an-ı Kerim Türkçe Anlamı İsteseydik onu tuzlu bir su yapardık; şükretmeniz gerekmez mi? ### Süleyman Ateş — Kur'an-ı Kerim ve Yüce Meali Dileseydik onu tuzlu yapardık. Şüketmeniz gerekmez mi? ### Yaşar Nuri Öztürk — Kur'an-ı Kerim Meali Dileseydik, onu tuzlu yapıverirdik. Peki şükretmeniz gerekmez mi? ### Mustafa İslamoğlu — Hayat Kitabı Kur’an Eğer dileseydik onu tuzlu ve acı bir su yapardık: şu halde neden hala şükretmiyorsunuz? ### Erhan Aktaş (Eski Baskı) — Kerim Kur'an Eğer dileseydik onu tuzlu yapardık. Buna şükretmeniz gerekmez mi? ### Ali Rıza Safa — Kur'an-ı Kerim Gerçek Eğer dileseydik, onu tuzlu yapardık. Yine de şükretmiyor musunuz? ### Süleymaniye Vakfı (Eski Baskı) — Süleymaniye Vakfı Meali O suyu, tuzlu ve sıcak indirmeyi tercih edebilirdik. Öyleyse görevlerinizi neden yerine getirmiyorsunuz! ### Mehmet Okuyan — Kur’an Meal-Tefsir Dileseydik onu da tuzlu yapardık. Şükretmeniz gerekmez mi? ### Erhan Aktaş (10. Baskı) — Kerim Kur'an Eğer dileseydik onu tuzlu yapardık. Buna şükretmeniz gerekmez mi? ### Erhan Aktaş — Kerim Kur'an Eğer dileseydik onu tuzlu yapardık. Buna şükretmeniz gerekmez mi? ### Süleymaniye Vakfı — Süleymaniye Vakfı Meali İsteseydik o suyu acı yapardık[1]. Keşke şükretseniz /görevlerinizi yerine getirseniz! _Footnotes_ - [1] Nitekim suları tuzlu ve acı olan deniz ve göller vardır ([Furkan 25/53,](https://quran.so/25/53) [Fatır 35/12](https://quran.so/35/12)). Bütün sular böyle olsaydı içilecek su bulunamazdı. ## Words | # | word | meaning | root | |---|---|---|---| | 1 | لَوْ — law | If | — | | 2 | نَشَآءُ — nashāu | We willed | شيا — Şin-Ye-Elif | | 3 | جَعَلْنَـٰهُ — jaʿalnāhu | We (could) make it | جعل — Cim-Ayn-Lam | | 4 | أُجَاجًۭا — ujājan | salty | اجج — Elif-Cim-Cim | | 5 | فَلَوْلَا — falawlā | then why are you not grateful | — | | 6 | تَشْكُرُونَ — tashkurūna | then why are you not grateful | شكر — Şin-Kef-Ra | --- Previous: https://quran.so/surah-al-waqiah/verse-69.md · Next: https://quran.so/surah-al-waqiah/verse-71.md Retrieved: 2026-08-15 Quran.so — https://quran.so — CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 — When quoting, name the translator.