At-Takathur
التكاثر8 āyāt · 23 tafsīrs
أَلْهَاكُمُ التَّكَاثُرُ
Al-Mukhtasar
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1. O people! Boasting with one another over wealth and offspring has preoccupied you from the obedience of Allah.
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al-Maḥallī & al-Suyūṭī · 864–911 AH / 1459–1505 CE
some omit it when reciting without a pause). In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful: [102:1] Rivalry [in worldly things], mutual vainglory about wealth, children and men, diSlratts you, preoccupies you [diverting you] from obedience to God, [102:2] until you visit the graves, [either] in that you have died and then been buried in them, or [it means] to the extent that you [actually] count the dead as a something to rival one another by. [102:3] No indeed! — a disavowal.…
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Al-Mukhtasar
Tafsīr Center for Qur'anic Studies · Contemporary
2. Until you die and enter your graves.
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كَلَّا سَوْفَ تَعْلَمُونَ
Al-Mukhtasar
Tafsīr Center for Qur'anic Studies · Contemporary
3. It is not befitting that boasting with one another over that preoccupies you from the obedience of Allah; you will soon know the consequence of that preoccupation.
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ثُمَّ كَلَّا سَوْفَ تَعْلَمُونَ
Al-Mukhtasar
Tafsīr Center for Qur'anic Studies · Contemporary
4. You will surely realise its outcome.
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كَلَّا لَوْ تَعْلَمُونَ عِلْمَ الْيَقِينِ
Al-Mukhtasar
Tafsīr Center for Qur'anic Studies · Contemporary
5. Truly, if you were to know with certainty that you are to be resurrected to Allah, and that He will requite you for your actions, you would not become preoccupied with boasting with one another over wealth and offspring.
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al-Maḥallī & al-Suyūṭī · 864–911 AH / 1459–1505 CE
vainglory at the moment of the extraction [of the soul], then [you will come to know] in the grave. [102:5] No indeed! — verily — Were you to know with certain knowledge, the consequences of your vainglory, you would not preoccupy yourselves with it, [for] [102:6] you would surely see hell-fire, the Fire ( la-tarawunna’l-jahima: this is the response to an omitted oath; the third consonant of the root of the verb [r-’-y] together with the second have been omitted, and its vowel has been transposed onto the ra). [102:7] Again, you will surely see it — [repeated] for emphasis — with the eye…
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Al-Mukhtasar
Tafsīr Center for Qur'anic Studies · Contemporary
6. By Allah! You will definitely witness the hellfire on the Day of Judgement.
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ثُمَّ لَتَرَوُنَّهَا عَيْنَ الْيَقِينِ
Al-Mukhtasar
Tafsīr Center for Qur'anic Studies · Contemporary
7. Then, you will definitely see it in a way you will become undoubtedly convinced.
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ثُمَّ لَتُسْأَلُنَّ يَوْمَئِذٍ عَنِ النَّعِيمِ
Al-Mukhtasar
Tafsīr Center for Qur'anic Studies · Contemporary
8. Then Allah will surely ask you on that day regarding the health, wealth etc. that He favoured you with.
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al-Maḥallī & al-Suyūṭī · 864–911 AH / 1459–1505 CE
th the eye of certainty ( c ayna is a verbal noun, as both ra’a and j ayana have the same meaning). [102:8] Then, on that day, the day you see it, you will assuredly be questioned ( la-tus'alunna: the nun of the indicative has been omitted because of one nun coming after the other; likewise [omitted] is the waw indicating the plural person [of the verb] because of two unvocalised consonants coming together) about the comforts [of the world], the health, leisure, security, food, drink and other things which one enjoys in this world. Meccan or Medinese, consisting of 3 verses. In the Name…
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