Today’s Ayat for Friday, 2023-12-08 / Jumada I 24, 1445 AH

Today’s Ayat for Friday, 2023-12-08 / Jumada I 24, 1445 AH

…Verily, God does not change men’s condition unless they change their inner selves; and when God wills people to suffer evil [in consequence of their own evil deeds], there is none who could avert it: for they have none who could protect them from Him
  — ar-R`ad 13:11

This, because God would never change the blessings with which He has graced a people unless they change their inner selves: and [know] that God is all-hearing, all-seeing.
  — al-Anfal 8:53

   as rendered by Muhammad Asad

إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ لَا یُغَیِّرُ مَا بِقَوۡمٍ حَتَّىٰ یُغَیِّرُوا۟ مَا بِأَنفُسِهِمۡۗ وَإِذَاۤ أَرَادَ ٱللَّهُ بِقَوۡمࣲ سُوۤءࣰا فَلَا مَرَدَّ لَهُۥۚ وَمَا لَهُم مِّن دُونِهِۦ مِن وَالٍ 

ذَ ٰلِكَ بِأَنَّ ٱللَّهَ لَمۡ یَكُ مُغَیِّرࣰا نِّعۡمَةً أَنۡعَمَهَا عَلَىٰ قَوۡمٍ حَتَّىٰ یُغَیِّرُوا۟ مَا بِأَنفُسِهِمۡ وَأَنَّ ٱللَّهَ سَمِیعٌ عَلِیمࣱ 

Explore other translations here:  https://www.islamawakened.com/quran/13/11/ 
and https://www.islamawakened.com/quran/8/53/ 

Study the Arabic here: https://www.islamawakened.com/quran/13/11/w4wcv.html 
and https://www.islamawakened.com/quran/8/53/w4wcv.html 

Commentary/example:

Bottom line:  We human beings choose to change, or not to.
We human beings choose IN WHICH DIRECTION to change.