Al-Humazah

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1. Evil consequences and a severe punishment awaits the one who frequently backbites the people and taunts them.

Tafsir al-Jalalayn

al-Maḥallī & al-Suyūṭī · 864–911 AH / 1459–1505 CE

. Meccan or Medinese, consisting of 9 verses. In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful: [104:1] Woe ( waylun : an expression implying chastisement) to every backbiter, [who is a] slanderer, frequently engaging in backbiting and slander, that is to say, defamation — this was revealed regard¬ ing those who slandered the Prophet (s) and the believers, the likes of Umayya b. Khalaf, al-Walid b.…

Al-Mukhtasar

Tafsīr Center for Qur'anic Studies · Contemporary

2. The one whose only concern is to amass wealth and count it; he has no other concern.

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Al-Mukhtasar

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3. He thinks that the wealth of his he amasses will save him from death, and that he will remain forever in this worldly life.

Tafsir al-Jalalayn

al-Maḥallī & al-Suyūṭī · 864–911 AH / 1459–1505 CE

of time. [104:3] He thinks, in his ignorance, that his wealth will make him immortal, never to die. [104:4] Nay! — a repudiation — He will surely be flung ( la-yunbadhanna is the response to an omitted oath), that is, he will be hurled down, into the Crusher, that crushes everything that is thrown into it. [104:5] And what will show you, [what] will make known to you, what the Crusher is? [104:6] [It is] the fire of God, kindled, set ablaze, [104:7] which peers over the hearts, to burn them — the pain of which is much more severe than any other because of the delicate nature [of the hear…

Al-Mukhtasar

Tafsīr Center for Qur'anic Studies · Contemporary

4. It is not as this ignorant one thinks; he will surely be thrown into the fire of hell that crushes and breaks everything that is thrown into it, due to its immense strength.

Tafsir al-Jalalayn

al-Maḥallī & al-Suyūṭī · 864–911 AH / 1459–1505 CE

He thinks, in his ignorance, that his wealth will make him immortal, never to die. [104:4] Nay! — a repudiation — He will surely be flung ( la-yunbadhanna is the response to an omitted oath), that is, he will be hurled down, into the Crusher, that crushes everything that is thrown into it. [104:5] And what will show you, [what] will make known to you, what the Crusher is? [104:6] [It is] the fire of God, kindled, set ablaze, [104:7] which peers over the hearts, to burn them — the pain of which is much more severe than any other because of the delicate nature [of the heart]. [104:8] Lo! i…

Al-Mukhtasar

Tafsīr Center for Qur'anic Studies · Contemporary

5. O Messenger! What do you know of this fire that smashes everything that is thrown into it?

Tafsir al-Jalalayn

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Al-Mukhtasar

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6. Indeed, it is the blazing fire of Allah.

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Al-Mukhtasar

Tafsīr Center for Qur'anic Studies · Contemporary

7. The fire that penetrates the bodies of the people until it reaches their hearts.

Tafsir al-Jalalayn

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Al-Mukhtasar

Tafsīr Center for Qur'anic Studies · Contemporary

8. Indeed, it will close up around those that will be punished with it.

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Al-Mukhtasar

Tafsīr Center for Qur'anic Studies · Contemporary

9. For a prolonged, lengthy period of time, so long that they will never leave it.

Tafsir al-Jalalayn

al-Maḥallī & al-Suyūṭī · 864–911 AH / 1459–1505 CE

(' alayhim, ‘on them: the plural pronoun takes into account the [plural] import of hull, ‘every’), [104:9] in outstretched ( mumaddadatin is an adjedtive qualifying the preceding [noun, ' amadin ]) col¬ umns (read ‘umudin or ‘amadin), and will therefore be inside the columns. In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful: