Surat An-Naml Verse No. 28: Reading and listening
Translation of the verse 28 from Surah An-Naml : Number of verses 93 - - page 379 - Part 19.
![surah النمل ayah 28 - Take this letter of mine and deliver it to them. Then leave them and see what [answer] they will return.](https://surahquran.com/img/ayah/27-28.png)
﴾ٱذۡهَب بِّكِتَٰبِي هَٰذَا فَأَلۡقِهۡ إِلَيۡهِمۡ ثُمَّ تَوَلَّ عَنۡهُمۡ فَٱنظُرۡ مَاذَا يَرۡجِعُونَ ﴿
[ النمل: 28]
"Go you with this letter of mine, and deliver it to them, then draw back from them, and see what (answer) they return."
English - Sahih International
Take this letter of mine and deliver it to them. Then leave them and see what [answer] they will return."
Tafheem-ul-Quran by Syed Abu-al-A'la Maududi
(27:28) Take this letter of mine and cast it before them; then get aside and see what reaction they show." *36
Tafheem-ul-Quran by Syed Abu-al-A'la Maududi
*36) Here ends the role of the hud-hud (hoopoe). The rationalists deny its being a bird for the reason that a bird could not possibly be endowed with such powers of observation, discrimination and expression that it should pass over a country and should come to know that it is the land of Saba`, it has such and such a system of government, it is ruled by a certain woman, its religion is sunworship, that it should have worshipped One God instead of having gone astray, and then on its return to the Prophet Solomon it should so clearly make a report of aII its observations before him. Due to these very reasons the open atheists object that the Qur'an is a book of fables and legends; then those who try to interpret the Qur'an rationally misconstrue its clear words in order to prove that the hud-hud was not at all a bird but he was a man. But the question is: What scientific information have these gentlemen got by which they could tell with absolute certainty what powers and abilities the different species of animals and their different individuals have got? The information that they possess only consists of the results interred froth the grossly insufficient observation made cursorily by them of the life and behaviour of the animals. In fact, man has not so far been able to know through any certain means what different animals know and what they see and hear. and what they feel and think and understand, and how the mind of each one of them works. Yet, whatever little observation has been made of the life of the different species of animals, it has revealed some of their wonderful abilities. Now, when AIIah, Who is the Creator of these animals, tells us that He had taught the speech of the birds to one of His Prophets and blessed him with the ability to speak to them, and the Prophet's taming and training had so enabled a hud-hud that it could make certain observations in the foreign lands and could report theta to the Prophet, we should, in fact, be prepared to revise our little knowledge about the animals in the light of Allah's statement. But, instead, we commit the folly of taking our this insufficient knowledge as the criterion and belie this statement of AIIah or distort it out of its true meaning.