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الناس6 āyāt · 22 tafsīrs
قُلْ أَعُوذُ بِرَبِّ النَّاسِ
Al-Mukhtasar
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1. Say, O Messenger: “I seek refuge in the Lord of mankind and seek His protection.”
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al-Maḥallī & al-Suyūṭī · 864–911 AH / 1459–1505 CE
. Meccan or Medinese, consisting of 6 verses. In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful: [114:1] Say: ‘I seek refuge in the Lord of mankind, their Creator and their Possessor: they [mankind] have been singled out for mention here in order to honour them, and a preface to seeking refuge from the evil of the one who whiskers in their hearts; [114:3] the God of mankind (both [maliki’l-nds and ildhi’l-nds ] are either substitutions or adjectival qualifications or explicative supplements; the repetition of the annexed word [ al-nds ] is meant as an ad¬ ditional explication),
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Al-Mukhtasar
Tafsīr Center for Qur'anic Studies · Contemporary
2. “The King of the people, who does whatever He wishes with them. They do not have any real king other than Him.”
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إِلَٰهِ النَّاسِ
Al-Mukhtasar
Tafsīr Center for Qur'anic Studies · Contemporary
3. “He is their rightful deity; they do not have any rightful deity except Him.”
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مِن شَرِّ الْوَسْوَاسِ الْخَنَّاسِ
Al-Mukhtasar
Tafsīr Center for Qur'anic Studies · Contemporary
4. “From the evils of Satan who whispers to the human when he is neglectful of the remembrance of Allah, or delays in it when he remembers.”
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الَّذِي يُوَسْوِسُ فِي صُدُورِ النَّاسِ
Al-Mukhtasar
Tafsīr Center for Qur'anic Studies · Contemporary
5. “He whispers to the hearts of people.”
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مِنَ الْجِنَّةِ وَالنَّاسِ
Al-Mukhtasar
Tafsīr Center for Qur'anic Studies · Contemporary
6. “And he could be from the humankind or from the Jinn.”
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al-Maḥallī & al-Suyūṭī · 864–911 AH / 1459–1505 CE
5] who whimpers in the breasts of mankind, in their hearts — whenever they negleCt to remember God, [114:6] of the jinn and mankind’ (mina’l-jinnati wa’l-ndsi: an explication for the whispering Satan being of the jinn and [also] of the humans, similar to Gods saying, the devils of humans and jinn [Q. 6:112]; or, mina’l-jinnati, ‘of the jinn’, is an explication for him [Satan], wa’l-ndsi, ‘and [of] mankind’ being a sup¬ plement to al-waswas, ‘the whisperer’).…
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