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 "id": "passage/quran-16-9",
 "class": "passage",
 "slug": "quran-16-9",
 "label": {
  "en": "Qur'an 16:9",
  "ar": "القرآن 16:9"
 },
 "summary": {
  "en": "Qur'an 16:9 (sura An-Nahl, verse 9).",
  "ar": "القرآن 16:9 (سورة النحل، الآية 9)."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [],
 "regions": [],
 "periods": [],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [],
 "data": {
  "unit": "ayah",
  "work": "work/quran",
  "ref": "16:9",
  "sura": 16,
  "aya": 9,
  "text": "وَعَلَى ٱللَّهِ قَصْدُ ٱلسَّبِيلِ وَمِنْهَا جَآئِرٌ ۚ وَلَوْ شَآءَ لَهَدَىٰكُمْ أَجْمَعِينَ",
  "text_search": "وعلى الله قصد السبيل ومنها جائر ۚ ولو شاء لهداكم أجمعين",
  "translations": {
   "en": {
    "text": "And Allah's is the direction of the way, and some (roads) go not straight. And had He willed He would have led you all aright.",
    "translator": "Marmaduke Pickthall",
    "license": "PD"
   },
   "ur": {
    "text": "اور سیدھا رستہ تو خدا تک جا پہنچتا ہے۔ اور بعض رستے ٹیڑھے ہیں (وہ اس تک نہیں پہنچتے) اور اگر وہ چاہتا تو تم سب کو سیدھے رستے پر چلا دیتا",
    "translator": "Fateh Muhammad Jalandhari",
    "license": "PD"
   }
  },
  "sensitivity": "sacred",
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "by",
   "source": "tanzil-quran-v1.1"
  },
  "sources": [
   "source/tanzil-quran",
   "source/tanzil-translations"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 1,
   "generated_by": "scripts/harvest/quran/generate.py; text byte-identical to Tanzil v1.1"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "الآية 9 من [[passage/quran-16|سورة النحل]]، وهي سورة مكية. {cite:tanzil-quran}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "موضعها",
     "markdown": "موضعها: الآية 9 من أصل 128 آية في السورة. النص محفوظ من مصحف تنزيل المجمّد ولا يُعاد كتابته هنا."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "passage/quran-16-9",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-16"
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Summary",
     "markdown": "Verse 9 of [[passage/quran-16|Surat an-Nahl]], a Meccan surah. {cite:tanzil-quran}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Place in the museum",
     "markdown": "Its place: verse 9 of 128 verses in the surah. The text is kept in the frozen Tanzil mushaf and is not retyped here."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "passage/quran-16-9",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-17"
  },
  "ur": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "الآية 9 من [[passage/quran-16|سورۃ النحل]]، وہ مکی سورت ہے۔ {cite:tanzil-quran}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "موضعها",
     "markdown": "موضعها: آیت 9، سورت کی کل 128 آیات میں سے۔ متن تنزیل کے منجمد مصحف سے محفوظ ہے اور یہاں دوبارہ نہیں لکھا جاتا۔"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "passage/quran-16-9",
    "lang": "ur",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-17"
  }
 },
 "degree": 2,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "updated": "2026-10-17",
 "connections": [
  {
   "to": "passage/quran-16",
   "type": "part_of",
   "inverse": false
  }
 ],
 "related": [],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}