Al-Kafirun

Al-Mukhtasar

Tafsīr Center for Qur'anic Studies · Contemporary

1. Say, O Messenger: O those who disbelieve in Allah!

Tafsir al-Jalalayn

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Al-Mukhtasar

Tafsīr Center for Qur'anic Studies · Contemporary

2. I do not and will not worship the idols you worship.

Tafsir al-Jalalayn

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

the Compassionate, the Merciful: [109:2] I do not worship, at present, what you worship, of idols, [109:3] and you do not worship, at present, what I worship, and that is God, exalted be He, alone, [109:4] nor will I worship, in the future, what you have worshipped, [109:5] nor will you worship, in the future, what I worship: God knew that they would never become believers (the use of [the inanimate] ma, ‘what’, to refer to God is meant to counter [the reference to ‘what thing’ they worship]).

Al-Mukhtasar

Tafsīr Center for Qur'anic Studies · Contemporary

5. Nor are you going to worship what I worship, i.e. Allah alone.

Tafsir al-Jalalayn

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Al-Mukhtasar

Tafsīr Center for Qur'anic Studies · Contemporary

4. Nor am I going to worship the idols you worship.

Tafsir al-Jalalayn

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Al-Mukhtasar

Tafsīr Center for Qur'anic Studies · Contemporary

5. Nor are you going to worship what I worship, i.e. Allah alone.

Tafsir al-Jalalayn

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Al-Mukhtasar

Tafsīr Center for Qur'anic Studies · Contemporary

6. You have your religion you thought up for yourselves, and I have my religion that Allah revealed to me.

Tafsir al-Jalalayn

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

ate] ma, ‘what’, to refer to God is meant to counter [the reference to ‘what thing’ they worship]). [109:6] You have your religion, idolatry, and I have a religion’, Islam: this was [revealed] before he was commanded to wage war [againSt the idolaters] (all seven Qur’anic readers omit the ya of the genitive possessive con£trucftion [in wa-liya dini\ whether with a pause or without; Ya'qub, however, retains it in both cases).…