صِبْغَةَ ٱللَّهِ وَمَنْ أَحْسَنُ مِنَ ٱللَّهِ صِبْغَةً وَنَحْنُ لَهُۥ عَٰبِدُونَ
The colouring of God - and who is better than God at colouring? And we are His worshippers. His religion is called a colouring because it shows on the one who has it, the way dye shows in cloth rather than sitting on top of it.
اللہ کا رنگ — اور رنگ دینے میں اللہ سے بہتر کون ہے؟ اور ہم اسی کی عبادت کرنے والے ہیں۔ اس کے دین کو 'رنگ' اس لیے کہا گیا ہے کہ وہ اس شخص پر ظاہر ہوتا ہے جسے ملے، بالکل جیسے رنگ کپڑے میں اتر جاتا ہے، اوپر اوپر نہیں بیٹھتا۔
hadith witness: 11 rows - sunni bukhari 7349, sunni ibnmajah 4288, sunni tirmidhi 2961, sunni tirmidhi 2980, shia Al-Kafi-Volume-2-Kulayni 25 | prophetic-transmitted (collection-sahih); prophetic-transmitted (graded-sahih); prophetic-transmitted (shia-graded-strong); shia-graded-mixed; shia-graded-weak; shia-ungraded; weak-kept-visible
tafsir: 25 editions comment (ahsan_ur, baghawi, bayan_ur, ibnashur, ibnkathir_ar, ibnkathir_en, ibnkathir_ur, jalalayn, jalalayn_en, maarif_en, miqbas, miqbas_en) - bodies not republished
MACHINE-SCHOLAR assembly - human review invited. Reading: consensus-derived (similarities law). Pillar 2:138 of 6,236 - 900 planning shares by spec.