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بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَنِ الرَّحِيمِ

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Wama khalaqtu aljinna waal-insailla liyaAAbudooni

وما خلقت الجن والإنس إلا ليعبدون
وَمَا خَلَقْتُ الْجِنَّ وَالْإِنسَ إِلَّا لِيَعْبُدُونِ

Tahir ul Qadri

اور میں نے جنّات اور انسانوں کو صرف اسی لئے پیدا کیا کہ وہ میری بندگی اختیار کریں

Yousuf Ali

I have only created Jinns and men, that they may serve Me.

Words

Ahmed Ali

اور میں نے جن اور انسان کو بنایا ہے تو صرف اپنی بندگی کے لیے

Ahmed Raza Khan

اور میں نے جن اور آدمی اتنے ہی لیے بنائے کہ میری بندگی کریں

Shabbir Ahmed

اور نہیں پیدا کیا ہے میں نے جن و انس کو مگر محض اس غرض سے کہ میری عبادت کریں۔

Fateh Muhammad Jalandhary

اور میں نے جنوں اور انسانوں کو اس لئے پیدا کیا ہے کہ میری عبادت کریں

Mehmood Al Hassan

اور میں نے جو بنائے جن اور آدمی سو اپنی بندگی کو

Abul Ala Maududi

میں نے جن اور انسانوں کو اِس کے سوا کسی کام کے لیے پیدا نہیں کیا ہے کہ وہ میری بندگی کریں

Farooq S. Khan

Mohammad Shaikh

Literal

And I did not create the Jinns and the human/mankind except to worship Me.

Yusuf Ali

I have only created Jinns and men, that they may serve Me.

Pickthal

I created the jinn and humankind only that they might worship Me.

Arberry

I have not created jinn and mankind except to serve Me.

Shakir

And I have not created the jinn and the men except that they should serve Me.

Sarwar

We have created jinn and human beings only that they might worship Me.

H/K/Saheeh

And I did not create the jinn and mankind except to worship Me.

Malik

We have not created jinns and mankind except to worship Me.[56]

Maulana Ali**

And I have not created the jinn and the men except that they should serve Me.

Free Minds

I did not create the Jinn and the humans except to serve Me.

Qaribullah

I have not created mankind and jinn except to worship Me.

George Sale

I have not created genii and men for any other end than that they should serve Me.

JM Rodwell

I have not created Djinn and men, but that they should worship me:

Asad

And [tell them that] I have not created the invisible beings [For a full discussion of the term jinn ("invisible beings"), see Appendix III. As pointed out by most of the philologists - and stressed by Razi in his comments on the above verse - this term includes also the angels, since they, too, are beings or forces "concealed from man's senses".] and men to any end other than that they may [know and] worship Me. [Thus, the innermost purpose of the creation of all rational beings is their cognition (marifah) of the existence of God and, hence, their conscious willingness to conform their own existence to whatever they may perceive of His will and plan: and it is this twofold concept of cognition and willingness that gives the deepest meaning to what the Quran describes as "worship" (ibadah). As the next verse shows, this spiritual call does not arise from any supposed "need" on the part of the Creator, who is self-sufficient and infinite in His power, but is designed as an instrument for the inner development of the worshipper, who, by the act of his conscious self-surrender to the all-pervading Creative Will, may hope to come closer to an understanding of that Will and, thus, closer to God Himself.]

Khalifa**

I did not create the jinns and the humans except to worship Me alone.

Hilali/Khan**

And I (Allah) created not the jinns and humans except they should worship Me (Alone).

QXP Shabbir Ahemd**

And I have not created the nomads or the urban but to consciously and willingly live by My Laws. ('Ibadah', usually translated, as worship is better applicable in that sense to idol-worship. And since the Qur'an consistently promotes action over ritual, 'Ibadah' of Allah is better understood as serving Him by serving His creation. That is in conformity with my rendering, 'consciously and willingly live by --').