Al-Furqan
الفرقان77 āyāt · 24 tafsīrs
تَبَارَكَ الَّذِي نَزَّلَ الْفُرْقَانَ عَلَىٰ عَبْدِهِ لِيَكُونَ لِلْعَالَمِينَ نَذِيرًا
Al-Mukhtasar
Tafsīr Center for Qur'anic Studies · Contemporary
1. Blessed is Allah who revealed the Qur’ān as a standard distinguishing between truth and falsehood, onto His servant and Messenger Muhammad peace be upon him, so that he could be a Messenger towards the humans and the jinn, and a warner to them of the punishment of Allah.
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الَّذِي لَهُ مُلْكُ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضِ وَلَمْ يَتَّخِذْ وَلَدًا وَلَمْ يَكُن لَّهُ شَرِيكٌ فِي الْمُلْكِ وَخَلَقَ كُلَّ شَيْءٍ فَقَدَّرَهُ تَقْدِيرًا
Al-Mukhtasar
Tafsīr Center for Qur'anic Studies · Contemporary
2. The One to Whom alone belongs authority over the heavens and earth, Who did not beget a child, nor has any partner in His authority, Who created everything appropriately and foresaw its creation according to His knowledge and wisdom to perfection.
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al-Maḥallī & al-Suyūṭī · 864–911 AH / 1459–1505 CE
ds, [to] mankind and the jinn, but not the angels, a Warner, a threaten¬ ing of God’s chastisement. [25:2] He to Whom belongs the kingdom of the heavens and the earth, and Who has not taken a son, nor has He any partner in sovereignty; and He created everything, which was meant to be created, and then determined it in a precise measure. He fashioned it in a balanced form.
Open in library →وَاتَّخَذُوا مِن دُونِهِ آلِهَةً لَّا يَخْلُقُونَ شَيْئًا وَهُمْ يُخْلَقُونَ وَلَا يَمْلِكُونَ لِأَنفُسِهِمْ ضَرًّا وَلَا نَفْعًا وَلَا يَمْلِكُونَ مَوْتًا وَلَا حَيَاةً وَلَا نُشُورًا
Al-Mukhtasar
Tafsīr Center for Qur'anic Studies · Contemporary
3. Instead of Allah, the idolaters adopted deities who cannot create anything small or large, but are themselves created. Verily, Allah created them from non-existence; they are unable to fend off any harm from themselves nor bring themselves any benefit, nor are they able to cause death to any living or give life to any dead, or raise the dead from their graves.
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al-Maḥallī & al-Suyūṭī · 864–911 AH / 1459–1505 CE
ant to be created, and then determined it in a precise measure. He fashioned it in a balanced form. [25:3] Yet they, the disbelievers, have taken besides Him, that is, [besides] God, in other words, other than Him, gods, from among the idols, who create nothing but have themselves been created, and who possess no harm for themselves, that is, [the power] to repel it, nor any benefit, that is, [the power] to at¬ tract it, nor do they possess [any power over] death or life, that is, [nor do they have the power] to make a person die or to give him life, or resurrection, that is, [nor do they…
Open in library →وَقَالَ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا إِنْ هَٰذَا إِلَّا إِفْكٌ افْتَرَاهُ وَأَعَانَهُ عَلَيْهِ قَوْمٌ آخَرُونَ فَقَدْ جَاءُوا ظُلْمًا وَزُورًا
Al-Mukhtasar
Tafsīr Center for Qur'anic Studies · Contemporary
4. And those who disbelieved in Allah and His Messenger said: “This Qur’ān is nothing but a lie which Muhammad has fabricated and blasphemously attributed to Allah. Other people have also helped him in its fabrication”. These disbelievers themselves have made a false statement, because the Qur’ān is the speech of Allah; it is impossible for humans and jinn to come up anything like it.
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al-Maḥallī & al-Suyūṭī · 864–911 AH / 1459–1505 CE
erson die or to give him life, or resurrection, that is, [nor do they have power] to raise the dead. [25:4] And those who disbelieve say, ‘This, Qur’an, is nothing but a calumny, a lie, that he, Muhammad (5), has invented, and other folk have helped him with it’, who [according to the disbelievers] were from among the People of the Scripture. God, exalted be He, says: Verily thus they have committed wrong and [spoken] falsehood, [they have come with] disbelief and mendacity.
Open in library →وَقَالُوا أَسَاطِيرُ الْأَوَّلِينَ اكْتَتَبَهَا فَهِيَ تُمْلَىٰ عَلَيْهِ بُكْرَةً وَأَصِيلًا
Al-Mukhtasar
Tafsīr Center for Qur'anic Studies · Contemporary
5. And these rejecters of the Qur’ān said, “The Qur’ān is vain tales of the previous people which they used to record; Muhammad has copied them. They are recited to him throughout the day”.
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al-Maḥallī & al-Suyūṭī · 864–911 AH / 1459–1505 CE
us they have committed wrong and [spoken] falsehood, [they have come with] disbelief and mendacity. [25:5] And they say, that it [the Qur’an] is also, ‘Fables, their lies ( asdtir is the plural of ustura ) of the ancients which he has had written down, that he has had someone from among those people copy it down for him, so that they are read to him, for him to memorise, morning and evening’. God, exalted be He, re^Jjonds to them saying: [25:6] Say: ‘It has been revealed by Him Who knows the secret, the Unseen, of the heavens and the earth. Truly He is ever Forgiving, of believers.…
Open in library →قُلْ أَنزَلَهُ الَّذِي يَعْلَمُ السِّرَّ فِي السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضِ إِنَّهُ كَانَ غَفُورًا رَّحِيمًا
Al-Mukhtasar
Tafsīr Center for Qur'anic Studies · Contemporary
6. O Messenger! Say to these rejecters: The Qur’ān was revealed by Allah, Who knows of everything in the heavens and earth. It is not made up as you think it to be. Indeed, Allah Forgiving of those of His servants who repent, and is merciful to them.
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وَقَالُوا مَالِ هَٰذَا الرَّسُولِ يَأْكُلُ الطَّعَامَ وَيَمْشِي فِي الْأَسْوَاقِ لَوْلَا أُنزِلَ إِلَيْهِ مَلَكٌ فَيَكُونَ مَعَهُ نَذِيرًا
Al-Mukhtasar
Tafsīr Center for Qur'anic Studies · Contemporary
7. The idolaters who rejected the Prophet peace be upon him said, “What is wrong with this man that claims he is a messenger from Allah when he eats food just as other people do, and walks around the markets in search of livelihood? Why did Allah not send an angel with him who would accompany him, proclaim his truthfulness and help him?”
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al-Maḥallī & al-Suyūṭī · 864–911 AH / 1459–1505 CE
Unseen, of the heavens and the earth. Truly He is ever Forgiving, of believers. Merciful’, to them. [25:7] And they also say, ‘What is it with this Messenger that he eats food and walks about in the marketplaces? Why has an angel not been sent down to him so as to be a Warner along with him?, and confirm his truthfulness.
Open in library →أَوْ يُلْقَىٰ إِلَيْهِ كَنزٌ أَوْ تَكُونُ لَهُ جَنَّةٌ يَأْكُلُ مِنْهَا وَقَالَ الظَّالِمُونَ إِن تَتَّبِعُونَ إِلَّا رَجُلًا مَّسْحُورًا
Al-Mukhtasar
Tafsīr Center for Qur'anic Studies · Contemporary
8. “Or send down a treasure for him from the heavens, or that he has a garden from which he eats fruits, so that he does not need to walk around the markets in search of livelihood?” The oppressors also said, “O believers! You are not following any messenger; you are only following a man whose intellect has been overwhelmed by magic.”
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al-Maḥallī & al-Suyūṭī · 864–911 AH / 1459–1505 CE
angel not been sent down to him so as to be a Warner along with him?, and confirm his truthfulness. [25:8] Ora treasure thrown down to him, from the heaven, for him to s^end from so as not to be in need of walking through the marketplaces in order to earn his livelihood. Or he has a garden, an orchard, for him to eat from?’, that is, [to eat] from its fruits and satisfy himself therewith (a variant reading [for ya’kulu, ‘for him to eat’] has na’kulu, ‘for us to eat’) and thus possess because of that [garden] an advan¬ tage over us.…
Open in library →انظُرْ كَيْفَ ضَرَبُوا لَكَ الْأَمْثَالَ فَضَلُّوا فَلَا يَسْتَطِيعُونَ سَبِيلًا
Al-Mukhtasar
Tafsīr Center for Qur'anic Studies · Contemporary
9. O Messenger! You should see and be amazed at how they can describe you with such false attributes, i.e. they said, “He is a magician”, “He has been spellbound”, and “He is insane”, so they deviated from the truth because of that. They are incapable of treading the path towards guidance and of questioning your truthfulness and honesty.
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al-Maḥallī & al-Suyūṭī · 864–911 AH / 1459–1505 CE
‘You are juft following a man bewitched!’, one duped, his mind overcome. God, exalted be He, says: [25:9] See how they ftrike similitudes for you, of [the fad that the Prophet is] a person bewitched and one in need of something to expend [from] and of an angel to help him carry out the task [of deliver¬ ing the Message], so that they go a fir ay, thereby from guidance, and are unable to find a way, a means thereto [to guidance].
Open in library →تَبَارَكَ الَّذِي إِن شَاءَ جَعَلَ لَكَ خَيْرًا مِّن ذَٰلِكَ جَنَّاتٍ تَجْرِي مِن تَحْتِهَا الْأَنْهَارُ وَيَجْعَل لَّكَ قُصُورًا
Al-Mukhtasar
Tafsīr Center for Qur'anic Studies · Contemporary
10. Blessed is Allah Who can, if He wishes, give you the good they think up for you like the gardens under the trees of which streams flow and the fruits of which you can eat; and can also grant you palaces in which you can live in luxury.
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al-Maḥallī & al-Suyūṭī · 864–911 AH / 1459–1505 CE
ey go a fir ay, thereby from guidance, and are unable to find a way, a means thereto [to guidance]. [25:10] Blessed is He, abundant is the good of God, Who, if He will, will give you better than that, treasure or orchard which they mentioned — gardens underneath which rivers flow, in this world, for He has already willed to give him such things in the Hereafter, and will give (read apocopated form wa- yaj’al) you palaces, as well (a variant reading [of the apocopated yafal] is yaj’alu, ‘He will give’, beginning a new sentence). [25:11] Nay, but they deny the [coming of the] Hour, the Res…
Open in library →بَلْ كَذَّبُوا بِالسَّاعَةِ وَأَعْتَدْنَا لِمَن كَذَّبَ بِالسَّاعَةِ سَعِيرًا
Al-Mukhtasar
Tafsīr Center for Qur'anic Studies · Contemporary
11. The statements that came from them were not said in search of the truth or evidence, rather, in conclusion, they have rejected the Day of Judgment. And for whoever rejects the Day of Judgment, I have prepared a blazing fire.
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إِذَا رَأَتْهُم مِّن مَّكَانٍ بَعِيدٍ سَمِعُوا لَهَا تَغَيُّظًا وَزَفِيرًا
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Tafsīr Center for Qur'anic Studies · Contemporary
12. When the disbelievers will look at the hellfire from a distance, they will hear an unsettling, severe boiling sound emitting from it due to its anger upon them.
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a blaze ( sa‘ir ), a fire that has been set ablaze ( musa“ara ), in other words, an intense [fire]. [25:12] When it sees them from a distant place, they will hear it raging, boiling like an enraged person when his heart boils with anger, and roaring, [producing] a powerful noise. Alternatively, what is meant by their ‘hearing it raging is their vision of it and awareness of it.
Open in library →وَإِذَا أُلْقُوا مِنْهَا مَكَانًا ضَيِّقًا مُّقَرَّنِينَ دَعَوْا هُنَالِكَ ثُبُورًا
Al-Mukhtasar
Tafsīr Center for Qur'anic Studies · Contemporary
13. And when these disbelievers will be thrown into hell from a tight place, with their hands chained to their necks, they will call destruction upon themselves hoping to escape from hell.
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al-Maḥallī & al-Suyūṭī · 864–911 AH / 1459–1505 CE
Alternatively, what is meant by their ‘hearing it raging is their vision of it and awareness of it. [25:13] And when they are flung into a narrow place thereof (read dayyiqan or dayqan, ‘narrow’, such that it constricts them; minha, ‘thereof’, is a circumstantial qualifier referring to makanan, ‘place’, be¬ cause it is actually an adjectival qualification of it) bound together, shackled, with their hands bound to their necks in chains (the use of the intensive form muqarranina [as opposed to muqranina] is meant to indicate a large number), they will at that point pray for [their own] anni…
Open in library →لَّا تَدْعُوا الْيَوْمَ ثُبُورًا وَاحِدًا وَادْعُوا ثُبُورًا كَثِيرًا
Al-Mukhtasar
Tafsīr Center for Qur'anic Studies · Contemporary
14. O disbelievers! Do not call upon one type of destruction for yourselves today; call upon many types! It will make no difference; you will not be granted what you seek. Instead, you will remain in painful punishment forever.
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قُلْ أَذَٰلِكَ خَيْرٌ أَمْ جَنَّةُ الْخُلْدِ الَّتِي وُعِدَ الْمُتَّقُونَ كَانَتْ لَهُمْ جَزَاءً وَمَصِيرًا
Al-Mukhtasar
Tafsīr Center for Qur'anic Studies · Contemporary
15. O Messenger! Say to them: “Is the aforementioned punishment described for you better, or the everlasting paradise with its eternal blessings that never finish? It is the very same one that Allah has promised His Allah-conscious servants as a reward and abode they will return to on the Day of Judgment.”
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al-Maḥallī & al-Suyūṭī · 864–911 AH / 1459–1505 CE
on on this day, but pray for many annihilations!’, which will be [the nature of] your chastisement. [25:15] Say: ‘Is that, which is mentioned of the threat of chastisement and the description of the Fire, better, or the Garden of Immortality which has been promised to the God-fearing, which will be, in God’s knowledge, exalted be He, their requital, [their] reward, and journey’s end?’, [their] place of return.
Open in library →لَّهُمْ فِيهَا مَا يَشَاءُونَ خَالِدِينَ كَانَ عَلَىٰ رَبِّكَ وَعْدًا مَّسْئُولًا
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Tafsīr Center for Qur'anic Studies · Contemporary
16. In this paradise, they will have whatever blessings they desire; that is a promise on Allah which His Allah-conscious servants will ask Him for. And the promise of Allah will be fulfilled, because He never breaks promises.
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al-Maḥallī & al-Suyūṭī · 864–911 AH / 1459–1505 CE
ledge, exalted be He, their requital, [their] reward, and journey’s end?’, [their] place of return. [25:16] In it they shall have what they wish, abiding [therein] — an irrevocable State — it, the promise to them of what is mentioned, is a promise binding on your Lord, [a promise] much besought, requested by those who have been promised it [as is clear from the following]: Our Lord, grant us what You have promised us through Your messengers [Q. 3:194], or requested on their behalf by the angels [who say]: Our Lord, and admit them into the Gardens of Eden which You have promised them [Q.…
Open in library →وَيَوْمَ يَحْشُرُهُمْ وَمَا يَعْبُدُونَ مِن دُونِ اللَّهِ فَيَقُولُ أَأَنتُمْ أَضْلَلْتُمْ عِبَادِي هَٰؤُلَاءِ أَمْ هُمْ ضَلُّوا السَّبِيلَ
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Tafsīr Center for Qur'anic Studies · Contemporary
17. On the day when the rejecting idolaters will be gathered, together with whatever they worshipped instead of Allah, He will say to those worshipped, scolding those who worshipped them, “Did you lead My servants astray by commanding them to worship you, or did they go astray of their own accord?”
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al-Maḥallī & al-Suyūṭī · 864–911 AH / 1459–1505 CE
who say]: Our Lord, and admit them into the Gardens of Eden which You have promised them [Q. 40:8]. [25:17] And on the day when He will assemble them ( yahshuruhum ; a variant reading has nahshuruhum, ‘We assemble them’) and that which they worship besides God, that is, other than Him, such as the angels, Jesus, Ezra and the jinn, and will say, exalted be He, (fa-yaqulu; a variant has fa-naqulu, and We shall say’) to those who were worshipped, as a way of establishing the argument againSt the wor¬ shippers [of the former]: ‘Was it you (read a-antum pronouncing both hamzas, or by substitut…
Open in library →قَالُوا سُبْحَانَكَ مَا كَانَ يَنبَغِي لَنَا أَن نَّتَّخِذَ مِن دُونِكَ مِنْ أَوْلِيَاءَ وَلَٰكِن مَّتَّعْتَهُمْ وَآبَاءَهُمْ حَتَّىٰ نَسُوا الذِّكْرَ وَكَانُوا قَوْمًا بُورًا
Al-Mukhtasar
Tafsīr Center for Qur'anic Studies · Contemporary
18. The worshipped ones will say, “Our Lord! You are exalted from having any partner. It was not for us to take any guardians instead of You, so how could we call Your servants to worship us instead of You? Our Lord! Rather, You granted these idolaters and their forefathers enjoyment through the pleasures of the world, gradually leading them into their destruction, until they forgot Your remembrance and worshipped others with You. They were people doomed due to their wretchedness.”
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al-Maḥallī & al-Suyūṭī · 864–911 AH / 1459–1505 CE
manding them to worship you, or did they go astray from the way?, the path of truth, by themselves? [25:18] They will say, ‘Glory be to You — exalted be You above what does not befit You! It was not, it would [not] have been right, for us to take any guardians besides You, that is, other than You ( min awliya’a, the firSt direcft objecft, the min being extra, [added] to emphasise the negation; the preceding [min dunika, ‘besides You’] is the second [direcft objecft]).…
Open in library →فَقَدْ كَذَّبُوكُم بِمَا تَقُولُونَ فَمَا تَسْتَطِيعُونَ صَرْفًا وَلَا نَصْرًا وَمَن يَظْلِم مِّنكُمْ نُذِقْهُ عَذَابًا كَبِيرًا
Al-Mukhtasar
Tafsīr Center for Qur'anic Studies · Contemporary
19. O idolaters! Verily, those you worshipped other than Allah have belied you in your claims against them, so you cannot fend off the punishment from yourselves nor help them due to your incapability. O believers! Whoever oppresses from amongst you by ascribing partners to Allah, I shall make him suffer a great punishment, just like I will make the ones mentioned suffer.
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al-Maḥallī & al-Suyūṭī · 864–911 AH / 1459–1505 CE
ons and belief in the Qur’an, and became a loft folk’, [a folk] destroyed. God, exalted be He, says: [25:19] Thus they will deny you, that is, the ones who were worshipped denied those who wor¬ shipped [them], in what you allege, namely, that they are gods, and they will neither be able to (read yaftatiuna, or [second person plural] taftatiuna ) in other words, neither they nor you will be able to, circumvent, ward off the chastisement from you, nor help, nor protecft you from it.…
Open in library →وَمَا أَرْسَلْنَا قَبْلَكَ مِنَ الْمُرْسَلِينَ إِلَّا إِنَّهُمْ لَيَأْكُلُونَ الطَّعَامَ وَيَمْشُونَ فِي الْأَسْوَاقِ وَجَعَلْنَا بَعْضَكُمْ لِبَعْضٍ فِتْنَةً أَتَصْبِرُونَ وَكَانَ رَبُّكَ بَصِيرًا
Al-Mukhtasar
Tafsīr Center for Qur'anic Studies · Contemporary
20. O Messenger! All the messengers I sent before you were humans who would eat food and walk in the markets; you are not a unique messenger in that sense. O people! I have made you tests for each other by granting you varying degrees of affluence, poverty, health and sickness; throughout these different circumstances, will you bear whatever I afflict you with so that I may reward you upon your patience? Your Lord is ever-aware of those who bear patience and those who do not, and those who obey Him and those who disobey Him.
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al-Maḥallī & al-Suyūṭī · 864–911 AH / 1459–1505 CE
cribes partners to God, We shall make him tafte an awful, a severe, chastisement, in the Hereafter. [25:20] And We did not send before you any messengers but that they ate food and walked in the mar¬ ketplaces, and so you are like them in this rested, and truly what was said to them is being said to you. And We have made some of you a trial for others:, a test, trying the rich with the poor, the healthy with the sick, the honourable with the vulgar, in each case the latter would say, ‘Why can I not be like the other person?’ Will you be fteadfaft?, [and endure] what you hear from those wi…
Open in library →وَقَالَ الَّذِينَ لَا يَرْجُونَ لِقَاءَنَا لَوْلَا أُنزِلَ عَلَيْنَا الْمَلَائِكَةُ أَوْ نَرَىٰ رَبَّنَا لَقَدِ اسْتَكْبَرُوا فِي أَنفُسِهِمْ وَعَتَوْا عُتُوًّا كَبِيرًا
Al-Mukhtasar
Tafsīr Center for Qur'anic Studies · Contemporary
21. The disbelievers who do not expect to meet Me and who do not fear My punishment said, “Why does not Allah send down the angels to us, so they can tell us about the truth of Muhammad?’ or ‘Why can we not see our Lord with our own eyes, so He can tell us about that?’ They are too proud within themselves and this prevented them from having faith, and they have gone beyond the limit of disbelief and transgression by this statement of theirs.
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al-Maḥallī & al-Suyūṭī · 864–911 AH / 1459–1505 CE
it!’. And your Lord is ever Watchful, of those who remain iteadfait and those who become miserable. [25:21] And those who do not expetl to encounter Us, [those] who have no fear of the Resurrection, say, ‘Why have the angels not been sent down to us, to aCt as messengers to us, or why do we not see our Lord?’, so that we might be informed [by Him] that Muhammad (s) is [truly] His Messenger? God, exalted be He, says: Assuredly they are full of arrogance within their souls and have become terribly insolent, in demanding to see God, exalted be He, in this world (read ‘ utuwwan, ‘insolence’ w…
Open in library →يَوْمَ يَرَوْنَ الْمَلَائِكَةَ لَا بُشْرَىٰ يَوْمَئِذٍ لِّلْمُجْرِمِينَ وَيَقُولُونَ حِجْرًا مَّحْجُورًا
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22. On the Day when these people will see the angels at the time of their death, in the Transitory Stage, when they are resurrected, when they are driven to give account and when they are entered into the Fire, there will be no good news for them on those occasions, unlike the believers, and the angels will say to them, “Unlawful and forbidden for you is the good news from Allah.”
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nal root form, as opposed to ‘itiyyan with the [yd’] substitution as in [surat] Maryam [Q. 19:8]).' [25:22] The day when they see the angels, [while they Stand] together with the reSt of creation, namely, on the Day of Resurrection ( yawma is in the accusative because of an implied [preceding] udhkur, ‘mention’), there will be no good tidings on that day for the guilty, that is, the disbelievers, in contrast to the believers for whom there shall be the good tidings of Paradise, and they will say, ‘A forbidding ban!’, as was their [the pagan] cuStom in this world whenever a misfortune befe…
Open in library →وَقَدِمْنَا إِلَىٰ مَا عَمِلُوا مِنْ عَمَلٍ فَجَعَلْنَاهُ هَبَاءً مَّنثُورًا
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23. I shall turn to the good deeds the disbelievers did in the world and due to their invalidity and lack of benefit because of their disbelief, I will scatter them like the particles of dust a person sees in the window.
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‘awdhan maadhan, seeking refuge from the angels [who will chaStise them]. God, exalted be He, says: [25:23] And We shall attend to. We shall turn to, the works they did, that were good, such as voluntary alms or kindness to kin, a hospitable reception of a gueSt or the succour of a troubled person in this world, and turn them into scattered duft ( habd’an manthuran ), namely, [as] those individual particles of duSt which one might observe near a window when the sun is shining through.…
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24. The believers, the people of Paradise, on that day will have a better position and place of rest and sleep than these disbelievers. That is because of their faith in Allah and their righteous deeds.
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] obligation [to reward them therefor]; 1 2 but they are rewarded for it in the life of this world. [25:24] Those who will be the inhabitants of Paradise on that day, the Day of Resurrection, will be in a [far] better abode, than are the disbelievers in this world, and a [far] better renting place, than theirs [the latter’s]; in other words, a [better] place for qd’ila, which is a re^t taken during midday during hot days. From this [la£t interpretation of maqilan] it has been inferred that the Reckoning will be concluded in half a day, as is stated in one hadith.
Open in library →وَيَوْمَ تَشَقَّقُ السَّمَاءُ بِالْغَمَامِ وَنُزِّلَ الْمَلَائِكَةُ تَنزِيلًا
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25. Mention - O Messenger - the day when the sky will split apart to reveal thin white clouds, and the angels will be sent down to the plains of the gathering in abundance due to their large number.
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t has been inferred that the Reckoning will be concluded in half a day, as is stated in one hadith. [25:25] And on the day when the heaven, each of the [seven] heavens, will be tplit asunder with the clouds, in other words, [^lit asunder] together with them [the clouds] ( al-ghamdm is white cloud) and the angels will be sent down, from every heaven, in a [majestic] descent, and this is the Day of Resurrec¬ tion (it [yawma, ‘on the day’] is in the accusative because of an implied [preceding] udhkur, ‘mention; a variant reading [for tashaqqaqu] is tashshaqqaqu, ‘will be ^Jdit asunder’, wher…
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26. Kingdom, which is the true and established kingdom, on the Day of Judgment will be for the Merciful, may He be glorified. That day will be difficult for the disbelievers as opposed to the believers for whom it will be easy.
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’ikatu, ‘the angels will be sent down’] has nunzilu al-mald’ikata, ‘We will send down the angels’); [25:26] true Sovereignty on that day will belong to the Compassionate One, with no one else sharing it with Him, and it, that day, will be a hard day for the disbelievers, in contract to the believers. [25:27] And [it will be] a day when the wrongdoer, the idolater, ‘Uqba b. Abi Mu'ayt — who had uttered the two-part profession [‘there is no god but God, Muhammad (s) is His Messenger’] but retracted it in order to please Ubayy b.…
Open in library →وَيَوْمَ يَعَضُّ الظَّالِمُ عَلَىٰ يَدَيْهِ يَقُولُ يَا لَيْتَنِي اتَّخَذْتُ مَعَ الرَّسُولِ سَبِيلًا
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27. Mention - O Messenger - the day the evildoer on account of leaving out following the Messenger (peace be upon him) will bite his own hand out of regret and say, ‘If only I had followed the Messenger and what he brought from his Lord, and I had taken a path with him to salvation.’
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يَا وَيْلَتَىٰ لَيْتَنِي لَمْ أَتَّخِذْ فُلَانًا خَلِيلًا
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28. He will also say due to extreme grief cursing himself: Alas for me! If only I had not taken so-and-so disbeliever as a friend!
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لَّقَدْ أَضَلَّنِي عَنِ الذِّكْرِ بَعْدَ إِذْ جَاءَنِي وَكَانَ الشَّيْطَانُ لِلْإِنسَانِ خَذُولًا
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29. This disbelieving friend led me away from the Qur’ān after it reached me through the Messenger. Satan has always been one who betrays man often. When some difficulty comes on him, he renounces him.
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or my destruction!’) Would that I had not taken so and so, in other words, [that] Ubayy, as friend! [25:29] Verily he has led me aStray from the Remembrance, namely, the Qur’an, after it had come to me, by causing me to recant my belief in it. God, exalted be He, says: And Satan is ever a deserter of, the disbelieving, man’, abandoning him and dissociating from him in [times of] tribulation. [25:30] And the Messenger, Muhammad (5), says, ‘O my Lord, lo! my people, the [tribe of] Quraysh, consider this Qur’an as something to be shunned’, to be disregarded.
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30. The Messenger will say on that day complaining about the condition of his people: O my Lord! My people, to whom You sent me, left this Qur’ān and ignored it.
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وَكَذَٰلِكَ جَعَلْنَا لِكُلِّ نَبِيٍّ عَدُوًّا مِّنَ الْمُجْرِمِينَ وَكَفَىٰ بِرَبِّكَ هَادِيًا وَنَصِيرًا
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31. Similar to the harm and preventing others from your path that you - O Messenger - encountered from your people, I had assigned to every Prophet before you an enemy from among the evildoers of his people. Your Lord is a sufficient guide, who guides to the truth, and He is a sufficient helper, who will help you against your enemy.
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eople, the [tribe of] Quraysh, consider this Qur’an as something to be shunned’, to be disregarded. [25:31] God, exalted be He, says: So, just as We have appointed for you enemies from among the idola¬ ters of your people, We have appointed to every prophet, before you, an enemy from among the guilty, the idolaters — so be Steadfast as they were; but your Lord suffices as a Guide, for you, and a Helper, to bring you victory over your enemies.
Open in library →وَقَالَ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا لَوْلَا نُزِّلَ عَلَيْهِ الْقُرْآنُ جُمْلَةً وَاحِدَةً كَذَٰلِكَ لِنُثَبِّتَ بِهِ فُؤَادَكَ وَرَتَّلْنَاهُ تَرْتِيلًا
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32. Those who disbelieved in Allah said, ‘Why was the Qur’ān not sent down to him all at once instead of in bits and pieces?’ I sent the Qur’ān bit by bit to strengthen your heart - O Messenger - by its revelation time after time. I revealed it bit by bit to you to make it easy for you to understand and memorise it.
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; but your Lord suffices as a Guide, for you, and a Helper, to bring you victory over your enemies. [25:32] And those who disbelieve say, ‘Why has the Qur’an not been revealed to him all at once?’, as the Torah, the GoSJiel and the Book of Psalms [were]. God, exalted be He, says: We have revealed it, thus, in parts, [it is], that We may Strengthen your inner-heart with it, and We have arranged it in a Specific order, that is to say, We produce it in stages one part after another, gradually and deliberately, in order to facilitate its comprehension and its memorisation. [25:33] And they d…
Open in library →وَلَا يَأْتُونَكَ بِمَثَلٍ إِلَّا جِئْنَاكَ بِالْحَقِّ وَأَحْسَنَ تَفْسِيرًا
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33. The idolaters do not bring to you - O Messenger - any point that they propose except that I bring to you the true and firm response to it and I bring to you something that is better explained.
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الَّذِينَ يُحْشَرُونَ عَلَىٰ وُجُوهِهِمْ إِلَىٰ جَهَنَّمَ أُولَٰئِكَ شَرٌّ مَّكَانًا وَأَضَلُّ سَبِيلًا
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34. Those who will be driven on the Day of Judgment being dragged on their faces to Hell. Such people are in the worst place because their place will be Hell and they are on the worst path because their path is the path of disbelief and deviation.
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ut that We bring you the truth, that refutes it, and [what is] better [as] exposition, explanation. [25:34] They are, those who will be gathered on their faces, that is, [those who] will be driven [as cattle], toward Hell: they will be in the worSt place, namely, Hell, and furthest aStray from the way, [they will be] on a path of error worse than that of others; and this [path] is their disbelief. [25:35] And verily We gave Moses the Scripture, the Torah, and made Aaron, his brother, [go] with him as a minister, an assistant. [25:36] Then We said, ‘Go both of you to the people who have d…
Open in library →وَلَقَدْ آتَيْنَا مُوسَى الْكِتَابَ وَجَعَلْنَا مَعَهُ أَخَاهُ هَارُونَ وَزِيرًا
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35. I gave Moses the Torah and appointed his brother, Aaron, as a Messenger to help him.
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فَقُلْنَا اذْهَبَا إِلَى الْقَوْمِ الَّذِينَ كَذَّبُوا بِآيَاتِنَا فَدَمَّرْنَاهُمْ تَدْمِيرًا
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36. So I said to them: Go, both of you, to Pharaoh and his people who denied My signs. So they fulfilled our instruction and went to them and invited them to Allah’s Oneness, but they denied them and I then destroyed them completely on account of their denial.
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وَقَوْمَ نُوحٍ لَّمَّا كَذَّبُوا الرُّسُلَ أَغْرَقْنَاهُمْ وَجَعَلْنَاهُمْ لِلنَّاسِ آيَةً وَأَعْتَدْنَا لِلظَّالِمِينَ عَذَابًا أَلِيمًا
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37. The people of Noah, too: when they rejected the Messengers by rejecting Noah (peace be upon him), I destroyed them by drowning them in the ocean, and I made their destruction a sign of My Power to eliminate the wrongdoers. I have prepared a painful punishment on the Day of Judgment for the wrongdoers.
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them with the Message but they [the Egyptians] denied both of them. Then We destroyed them utterly. [25:37] And, mention, the people of Noah, when they denied the messengers, in denying Noah — it is as though he were many messengers given the length of time he remained among them; or [it is thus expressed in the plural] because to deny him is [equivalent] to denying all the other messengers, for they all came with the same [Message concerning] affirmation of God’s Oneness — We drowned them (this is the response to lammd, ‘when’) and made them a sign, a lesson, for mankind, thereafter, and…
Open in library →وَعَادًا وَثَمُودَ وَأَصْحَابَ الرَّسِّ وَقُرُونًا بَيْنَ ذَٰلِكَ كَثِيرًا
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38. I also destroyed the Ad, the people of Hud, and the Thamud, the people of Salih. I destroyed the people of the Well and I destroyed many communities between these three.
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elievers, a painful chastisement, in addition to what [chastisement] may befall them in this world. [25:38] And, mention, c Ad, the people of Hud, and Thamud, the people of Salih, and the dwellers at al-Rass ( al-rass ) — the name of a ‘well’; their prophet is said to have been Shu'ayb; although some say it was someone else. [The Story is that] they had been sitting around it [on one occasion] when it col¬ lapsed beneath them [burying them] together with their dwellings. And many generations, peoples, in between, that is, between [the people of] ‘Ad and the dwellers at al-Rass.
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Al-Mukhtasar
Tafsīr Center for Qur'anic Studies · Contemporary
39. To each of these who were destroyed I had described the destruction of the previous communities and the reasons for it so that they take heed, and each of them I completely destroyed because of their disbelief and stubbornness.
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generations, peoples, in between, that is, between [the people of] ‘Ad and the dwellers at al-Rass. [25:39] For each [of them] We Struck similitudes, when establishing arguments againSt them, and We destroyed them only after warning [them], and each [of them] We ruined utterly. We destroyed utterly, because of their denial of the prophets sent to them. [25:40] And verily they, namely, the disbelievers of Mecca, will have passed by the town on which an
Open in library →وَلَقَدْ أَتَوْا عَلَى الْقَرْيَةِ الَّتِي أُمْطِرَتْ مَطَرَ السَّوْءِ أَفَلَمْ يَكُونُوا يَرَوْنَهَا بَلْ كَانُوا لَا يَرْجُونَ نُشُورًا
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Tafsīr Center for Qur'anic Studies · Contemporary
40. These rejecters from your people in their travel to the Levant have come by the town of people of Lot on which stones had rained down as a punishment for their immoral behaviour so that they make take heed. Were they blind to this town and did they not see it? No! Instead they do not expect to be raised from the dead and taken to account thereafter.
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[25:40] And verily they, namely, the disbelievers of Mecca, will have passed by the town on which an evil shower was rained (al-saw’, ‘evil’, is the verbal noun from sd’a, ‘was evil’), that is, [it was showered] with atones. This was the principal town of the towns inhabited by the people of Lot; God destroyed its inhabitants for their committing acfts of lewdness. Can it he that they have not seen it?, on their journeys to Syria, and so take heed thereof? (the interrogative is affirmative).…
Open in library →وَإِذَا رَأَوْكَ إِن يَتَّخِذُونَكَ إِلَّا هُزُوًا أَهَٰذَا الَّذِي بَعَثَ اللَّهُ رَسُولًا
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41. Whenever these rejecters meet you - O Messenger - they ridicule you by saying mockingly and in denial: Is this the one Allah has sent as a Messenger to us?
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is that they do not expeCt, they have [no] fear of [any], resurrection, and so they do not believe. [25:41] And when they see you, they take you in mockery only, as an objedt of derision, saying, ‘Is this the one whom God has sent as a messenger?, as he is wont to claim? — contemptuously of him as one not worthy of being a messenger. [25:42] Indeed (in, softened in place of the hardened form, with its subjedt omitted, namely, innahu ) he was about to lead us aftray, turn us away, from our gods, had we not flood by them’, he would have turned us away from them.…
Open in library →إِن كَادَ لَيُضِلُّنَا عَنْ آلِهَتِنَا لَوْلَا أَن صَبَرْنَا عَلَيْهَا وَسَوْفَ يَعْلَمُونَ حِينَ يَرَوْنَ الْعَذَابَ مَنْ أَضَلُّ سَبِيلًا
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42. He almost led us astray from the worship of our gods. If we had not stood so firmly by their worship, he would have turned us away from it by his arguments and proofs. They will soon come to know, when they see the punishment in their graves and on the Day of Judgement, who is furthest from the path - is it them or he - and they will come to know which of them is astray.
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أَرَأَيْتَ مَنِ اتَّخَذَ إِلَٰهَهُ هَوَاهُ أَفَأَنتَ تَكُونُ عَلَيْهِ وَكِيلًا
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43. Have you seen - O Messenger - the person who made his desire a god and followed it! Will you be a guardian over him to bring him back to faith and prevent him from disbelief?
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al-Maḥallī & al-Suyūṭī · 864–911 AH / 1459–1505 CE
, who is further aftray from the way, who is further upon the path of error: they or the believers? [25:43] Have you seen — inform Me [about] — him who has taken as his god his own desire?, that is, as something that will be bring about his ruin 3 (the indiredt objedt [ilahahu, ‘as his god’] precedes the diredt objedt because it is more important; the clause [beginning] man ittakhadha, ‘him who has taken’, constitutes the firSt diredt objedt of a-ra’ayta, ‘have you seen’, the second being [the following, a-fa-anta ...]) Will you be a guardian over him?, a protedtor to preserve him from fo…
Open in library →أَمْ تَحْسَبُ أَنَّ أَكْثَرَهُمْ يَسْمَعُونَ أَوْ يَعْقِلُونَ إِنْ هُمْ إِلَّا كَالْأَنْعَامِ بَلْ هُمْ أَضَلُّ سَبِيلًا
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44. Rather, do you - O Messenger - think that most of those whom you call towards Allah’s Oneness and obedience, hear with acceptance or understand the arguments and proofs? They are just like cattle in terms of their hearing, comprehension and understanding. Rather, they are further from the path than cattle are.
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أَلَمْ تَرَ إِلَىٰ رَبِّكَ كَيْفَ مَدَّ الظِّلَّ وَلَوْ شَاءَ لَجَعَلَهُ سَاكِنًا ثُمَّ جَعَلْنَا الشَّمْسَ عَلَيْهِ دَلِيلًا
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45. Have you - O Messenger - not seen how your Lord extends the shade on the surface of the earth. If He had willed to make it stand still without moving He could have done so. Then I made the sun an indicator for it, becoming long and short in accordance to it.
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o looks after them, whereas these [disbelievers] do not obey their MaSter, Who is gracious to them. [25:45] Have you not seen, contemplated, the work of, your Lord, how He extends the [twilight] shad¬ ow?, from the point of daybreak to the point of sunrise. For had He, your Lord, willed, He would have made it Still, ever-present so that it does not disappear with the rising of the sun.…
Open in library →ثُمَّ قَبَضْنَاهُ إِلَيْنَا قَبْضًا يَسِيرًا
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46. Then I retracted the shade by reducing it gradually little by little in accordance to the height of the sun.
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وَهُوَ الَّذِي جَعَلَ لَكُمُ اللَّيْلَ لِبَاسًا وَالنَّوْمَ سُبَاتًا وَجَعَلَ النَّهَارَ نُشُورًا
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47. It is Allah who has made the night like a garment to cover you and cover all things. It is He who made sleep a rest that you could enjoy from your occupation. It is He who made the day a time when you go out to your work.
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he extended shadow, to Us by gentle retraction, subtle [retradtion], through the rising of the sun. [25:47] And He it is Who made for you the night as a garment, veiling [you] like a garment, and sleep for repose, reft for bodies through the [temporary] cessation of labour, and He made the day for rising, [a time] in which all rise to seek their livelihood and so on.
Open in library →وَهُوَ الَّذِي أَرْسَلَ الرِّيَاحَ بُشْرًا بَيْنَ يَدَيْ رَحْمَتِهِ وَأَنزَلْنَا مِنَ السَّمَاءِ مَاءً طَهُورًا
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48. It is He who sent the winds as heralds of good news of the fall of rain which is His Mercy to His servants. I sent down from the sky rain water that is pure which they use to purify themselves.
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our, and He made the day for rising, [a time] in which all rise to seek their livelihood and so on. [25:48] And He it is Who sends forth the winds ( al-riydha ; a variant has al-riha, ‘the wind’) difpersing before His mercy (nushuran, ‘dispersing’), scattered before the [coming of the] rain (a variant reading has nushran, the singular of which is nashur, similar [in pattern] to rasiil, ‘messenger’ [plural rusul ]; an¬ other reading has nashran, as a verbal noun; and a third variant has bushran, in other words, [the winds fundtion as] mubashshirdt, ‘bearers of good tidings’, the singular o…
Open in library →لِّنُحْيِيَ بِهِ بَلْدَةً مَّيْتًا وَنُسْقِيَهُ مِمَّا خَلَقْنَا أَنْعَامًا وَأَنَاسِيَّ كَثِيرًا
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49. So that I can revive by means of the water that comes down a barren land that has no vegetation by causing various types of plants to grow and spreading greenery on it, and to give that water as a drink to the many animals and people I have created.
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good tidings’, the singular of which is bashir); and We send down from the heaven purifying water, [25:49] with which We revive a dead land (read maytan, in the softened form, equally valid for the mas¬ culine and the feminine, but in the masculine [here] because of the [masculine] noun indicating ‘place’ [implicit therein]) and We give it, the water, as drink to the many cattle, camels, cows and sheep, and humans We have created (andsiyy is the plural of insdn: properly it [the plural] should be andsin but the [final] nun has been replaced with a ya\ with which the [other] yd’ has been a…
Open in library →وَلَقَدْ صَرَّفْنَاهُ بَيْنَهُمْ لِيَذَّكَّرُوا فَأَبَىٰ أَكْثَرُ النَّاسِ إِلَّا كُفُورًا
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50. I have explained in various ways in the Qur’ān, the arguments and proofs so that they might take heed, but most people persist in their rejection and denial of the truth.
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. [25:50] And verily We have diftributed it, the water, among them, so that they may remember ( li- 3 The root h-w-y can mean to ‘desire’ as well as ‘to fall down ( hawiya is ‘an abyss’ or ‘perdition’), which allows for a play on words: ‘his taking his own desire as his god will lead to his perdition’. yadhdhakkaru should actually be li-yatadhakkaru, but the ta has been assimilated with the dhal; a vari¬ ant reading has li-yadhkuru), that is to say, [so that they may remember] therewith the grace of God.…
Open in library →وَلَوْ شِئْنَا لَبَعَثْنَا فِي كُلِّ قَرْيَةٍ نَّذِيرًا
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51. If it had been My will, I would have sent a Messenger to every town, to warn them of Allah’s punishment. But I did not will that. I only sent Muhammad (peace be upon him) as a Messenger to all people.
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, on denial of the grace, saying, ‘We have received [this] rain because of such-and-such a storin’. [25:51] And had We willed, We could have sent forth in every town a Warner, to threaten its inhabitants [with God’s chastisement]; instead We have sent you to the inhabitants of all towns as a warner for your reward to be a great one. [25:52] So do not obey the disbelievers, in their desires, but Struggle again it them therewith, that is, through [adherence to] the Qur’an, with a great endeavour.
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52. So do not follow the disbelievers in their demands for you to be soft with them and in the proposals that they put forward. Strive against them with this Qur’ān that is revealed to you a mighty struggle by being patient over their harm and tolerating difficulties in calling them to Allah.
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وَهُوَ الَّذِي مَرَجَ الْبَحْرَيْنِ هَٰذَا عَذْبٌ فُرَاتٌ وَهَٰذَا مِلْحٌ أُجَاجٌ وَجَعَلَ بَيْنَهُمَا بَرْزَخًا وَحِجْرًا مَّحْجُورًا
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53. It is Allah, may He be glorified, who merged the water of the two bodies of flowing water. He mixed the sweet and the salty, and put a barrier and dividing line between them that prevents them from intermingling.
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ruggle again it them therewith, that is, through [adherence to] the Qur’an, with a great endeavour. [25:53] And He it is Who merged the two seas: letting them [flow] one adjacent to the other: thisonepal- atable, sweet, and the other saltish, bitter; and He set between the two an isthmus, so that the one does not mix with the other, and a forbidding ban, a shield that prevents the two from becoming mixed. [25:54] And He it is Who created man from water, [He created] from a SJierm-drop a human being, and made for him ties of blood and ties of marriage, whether it be a male or a female, the…
Open in library →وَهُوَ الَّذِي خَلَقَ مِنَ الْمَاءِ بَشَرًا فَجَعَلَهُ نَسَبًا وَصِهْرًا وَكَانَ رَبُّكَ قَدِيرًا
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54. It is He who created human beings from the semen of men and women. By creating human beings He established the relationship of kinship by blood and relationship by marriage. Your Lord is all powerful and Nothing is outside His ability. It is through His Power that He created man from the semen of a man and woman.
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وَيَعْبُدُونَ مِن دُونِ اللَّهِ مَا لَا يَنفَعُهُمْ وَلَا يَضُرُّهُمْ وَكَانَ الْكَافِرُ عَلَىٰ رَبِّهِ ظَهِيرًا
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55. Yet instead of Allah, the disbelievers worship idols that can neither benefit them, if they follow them, nor harm them, if they go against them. The disbeliever has always followed Satan in that which angers Allah, may He be glorified.
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the purposes of procreation. For your Lord is ever Powerful, with the power to do whatever He will. [25:55] And they, the disbelievers, worship besides God that which neither benefits them, when they worship it, nor harms them, should they refrain therefrom — and these are idols; and the disbeliever is ever a partisan againSt his Lord, an assistant to Satan through his obedience to him. [25:56] And We have not sent you except as a bearer of good tidings, of Paradise, and as a warner, a threatener [of people] with the [chastisement of the] Fire.
Open in library →وَمَا أَرْسَلْنَاكَ إِلَّا مُبَشِّرًا وَنَذِيرًا
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56. I sent you - O Messenger - only to give good news to those who follow Allah, by having faith and doing righteous actions, and to warn those who go against Him, by committing disbelief and sin.
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قُلْ مَا أَسْأَلُكُمْ عَلَيْهِ مِنْ أَجْرٍ إِلَّا مَن شَاءَ أَن يَتَّخِذَ إِلَىٰ رَبِّهِ سَبِيلًا
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57. Say, O Messenger: I am not asking for any reward for conveying the message. But anyone of you who wishes to take a path towards Allah’s pleasure by spending, then let him do so.
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idings, of Paradise, and as a warner, a threatener [of people] with the [chastisement of the] Fire. [25:57] Say: ‘I do not ask of you in return for this, that is, for delivering that [Message] with which I have been sent, any reward, except that whoever wishes to follow a way to his Lord [should do so]’, by expending his wealth for the sake of [attaining] God’s pleasure, exalted be He; then [whoever wishes to do so] I will not prevent him from doing so.
Open in library →وَتَوَكَّلْ عَلَى الْحَيِّ الَّذِي لَا يَمُوتُ وَسَبِّحْ بِحَمْدِهِ وَكَفَىٰ بِهِ بِذُنُوبِ عِبَادِهِ خَبِيرًا
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58. Put your trust - O Messenger - in all of your affairs in Allah, the Living and Everlasting who never dies, declare His purity and celebrate His praise, may He be glorified. He knows the sins of His servants well enough. Nothing of that is hidden from Him and He will recompense them for the same.
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God’s pleasure, exalted be He; then [whoever wishes to do so] I will not prevent him from doing so. [25:58] And put your trust in the Living One Who does not die, and make glorifications, ensconced, in His praise, in other words, say: subhana’Llahi wa’l-hamdu li’Llah, ‘Glory be to God and praise be to God’. And He suffices as One Aware, as Knower, of the sins of His servants (khabiran, ‘One Aware’, is semanti¬ cally connected to bi-dhunubi, ‘of the sins’).
Open in library →الَّذِي خَلَقَ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضَ وَمَا بَيْنَهُمَا فِي سِتَّةِ أَيَّامٍ ثُمَّ اسْتَوَىٰ عَلَى الْعَرْشِ الرَّحْمَٰنُ فَاسْأَلْ بِهِ خَبِيرًا
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59. The One who created the heavens and earth and what is between them in six days, and then established Himself on the throne, in a meaning that is befitting for His Majesty. He is the Merciful, so ask then - O Messenger - about Him, One who is aware, and that is Allah - the One who knows everything and from Whom nothing is hidden.
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of His servants (khabiran, ‘One Aware’, is semanti¬ cally connected to bi-dhunubi, ‘of the sins’). [25:59] He it is, Who created the heavens and the earth and all that is between them in six days, of the [length of the] days of this world, since there was no sun at that point — had He willed He could have created them in an instant, but His not having done so is because He will to teach His creatures to be circum^ecft — then presided upon the Throne (al-’arsh in the [classical] language is the seat on which a king sits) the Compassionate One ( al-rahmanu substitutes for the subject of [th…
Open in library →وَإِذَا قِيلَ لَهُمُ اسْجُدُوا لِلرَّحْمَٰنِ قَالُوا وَمَا الرَّحْمَٰنُ أَنَسْجُدُ لِمَا تَأْمُرُنَا وَزَادَهُمْ نُفُورًا
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60. When it is said to the disbelievers: Prostrate to the Merciful, they say: We will not prostrate to the Merciful. What is the Merciful? We do not know or acknowledge Him. Should we prostrate to what you tell us when we do not know Him?! His instruction to them to prostrate to Him only puts them further away from having faith in Allah.
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out Him, about the Compassionate One, anyone who is well aware, to inform you about His attributes! [25:60] And when it is said to them, to the disbelievers of Mecca, ‘Prostrate yourselves before the Com¬ passionate One’, they say, And what is the Compassionate One? Should we prostrate ourselves to what¬ ever you bid us’ ( ta’muruna; or read ya’murund, ‘[whatever] he bids us’) — [in both cases] the one bidding is Muhammad (s) — when we do not know who He is? No! And it, this that is said to them, increases their aversion, to faith.
Open in library →تَبَارَكَ الَّذِي جَعَلَ فِي السَّمَاءِ بُرُوجًا وَجَعَلَ فِيهَا سِرَاجًا وَقَمَرًا مُّنِيرًا
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61. Blessed is He Who made stations in the heavens for the planets and the moving stars, Who made in the sky a sun that radiates light, and Who made a moon that illuminates the earth with the light of the sun that it reflects.
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e do not know who He is? No! And it, this that is said to them, increases their aversion, to faith. [25:61] God, exalted be He, says: Blessed, magnified, is He Who has placed in the heaven constellations, twelve [of them]: Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo ( al-sunbula ), Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricorn, Aquarius and Pisces.…
Open in library →وَهُوَ الَّذِي جَعَلَ اللَّيْلَ وَالنَّهَارَ خِلْفَةً لِّمَنْ أَرَادَ أَن يَذَّكَّرَ أَوْ أَرَادَ شُكُورًا
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62. It is Allah who made the night and day follow and replace each other, for anyone who wishes to take a lesson from Allah’s signs and come onto the right path, or wishes to be grateful to Allah for His favours.
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وَعِبَادُ الرَّحْمَٰنِ الَّذِينَ يَمْشُونَ عَلَى الْأَرْضِ هَوْنًا وَإِذَا خَاطَبَهُمُ الْجَاهِلُونَ قَالُوا سَلَامًا
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63. The servants of the Merciful are the believers who walk humbly on the earth with dignity, and when the foolish address them they do not retaliate in the same manner but they tell them something that saves them from their evil.
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other; or desires to be thankful, for the graces of his Lord to him during both [of these periods]. [25:63] And the [true] servants of the Compassionate One (‘ ibadu’l-rahmani is the subjed:, and what comes after it, all the way up to ula’ika yujzawna, ‘they will be rewarded’ [of verse 75 below] 4 are adjec¬ tival qualifiers of this [subjed:], with the exception of the parenthetical datements) are those who walk upon the earth modestly, that is, peacefully and humbly, and who, when the ignorant address them, with what they are averse to, say [words of ] peace ( salam ), in other words, wo…
Open in library →وَالَّذِينَ يَبِيتُونَ لِرَبِّهِمْ سُجَّدًا وَقِيَامًا
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64. Those who spend the night prostrating on their foreheads and standing on their feet, praying to Allah.
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وَالَّذِينَ يَقُولُونَ رَبَّنَا اصْرِفْ عَنَّا عَذَابَ جَهَنَّمَ إِنَّ عَذَابَهَا كَانَ غَرَامًا
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65. Those who say in their prayer to their Lord: Our Lord, remove from us the punishment of Hell, for the punishment of Hell is perpetual and everlasting for those who die as disbelievers.
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إِنَّهَا سَاءَتْ مُسْتَقَرًّا وَمُقَامًا
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66. It is a terrible place of settlement for anyone, and a terrible place of residence for anyone.
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وَالَّذِينَ إِذَا أَنفَقُوا لَمْ يُسْرِفُوا وَلَمْ يَقْتُرُوا وَكَانَ بَيْنَ ذَٰلِكَ قَوَامًا
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67. They are those whom when they spend their wealth do not go to the limit of extravagance in their spending, nor do they restrict their spending to only those whom they have to spend on such as themselves and others, but their spending is balanced between wastefulness and niggardliness.
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وَالَّذِينَ لَا يَدْعُونَ مَعَ اللَّهِ إِلَٰهًا آخَرَ وَلَا يَقْتُلُونَ النَّفْسَ الَّتِي حَرَّمَ اللَّهُ إِلَّا بِالْحَقِّ وَلَا يَزْنُونَ وَمَن يَفْعَلْ ذَٰلِكَ يَلْقَ أَثَامًا
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68. Those who do not call on any other deity besides Allah, may He be glorified, nor kill any person, whose killing Allah has prohibited except for that which Allah has allowed such as the killing of a murderer, renegade or a married adulterer, nor commit adultery. Whoever does these major sins will face the punishment for the sin he has committed on the Day of Judgement.
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n such, prodigality and parsimony, lies — [between the two] their expenditure [is in] — moderation; [25:68] and [those] who do not call on another god along with God, nor slay the sold which God has forbidden, that it be slain, except with due cause, and who do not commit fornication —for whoever does that, namely, [whoever does] one of these three things, shall meet with retribution;
Open in library →يُضَاعَفْ لَهُ الْعَذَابُ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ وَيَخْلُدْ فِيهِ مُهَانًا
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69. The punishment will be doubled for him on the Day of Judgement, and he will remain in the punishment, disgraced and humiliated.
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r whoever does that, namely, [whoever does] one of these three things, shall meet with retribution; [25:69] doubled ( yudaaf. a variant reading has yuda’af) will be the chastisement for him on the Day of Resurrection and he will abide therein (both verbs may be read in [the imperfed] apocopated form [yudaaf, ‘it will be doubled’, and yakhlud, ‘he will abide’] as substitutions, or with the [indicative] damma infledion [yudaafu and yakhludu] to indicate the beginning of a new sentence) abased ( muhanan is a circumstantial qualifier);
Open in library →إِلَّا مَن تَابَ وَآمَنَ وَعَمِلَ عَمَلًا صَالِحًا فَأُولَٰئِكَ يُبَدِّلُ اللَّهُ سَيِّئَاتِهِمْ حَسَنَاتٍ وَكَانَ اللَّهُ غَفُورًا رَّحِيمًا
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70. But those who repent to Allah and do good deeds that indicate the sincerity of their repentance, then Allah will change the evil deeds of such people into good ones. Allah is Forgiving of the sins of those of His servants who repent and He is Merciful towards them.
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ludu] to indicate the beginning of a new sentence) abased ( muhanan is a circumstantial qualifier); [25:70] except for him who repents, and believes, and ads righteously, from among them,/or such, God will replace their, mentioned, evil deeds with good deeds, in the Hereafter, for God is ever Forgiving, Merciful, that is. He is ever possessed of such attributes; [25:71] and whoever repents, of his sins, from among other than those mentioned, and ads righteously, indeed turns to God with due repentance, that is, he returns to God a sincere return, and God will re¬ quite him with good;
Open in library →وَمَن تَابَ وَعَمِلَ صَالِحًا فَإِنَّهُ يَتُوبُ إِلَى اللَّهِ مَتَابًا
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71. Those who repent to Allah and prove the sincerity of their repentance by doing good deeds and giving up sins, their repentance is one that is accepted.
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وَالَّذِينَ لَا يَشْهَدُونَ الزُّورَ وَإِذَا مَرُّوا بِاللَّغْوِ مَرُّوا كِرَامًا
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72. Those who do not attend falsehood, such as places of sins and prohibited amusement, and when they pass by futile statements and actions they pass by quickly, keeping the dignity of their souls by staying away from becoming involved in these things.
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due repentance, that is, he returns to God a sincere return, and God will re¬ quite him with good; [25:72] and those who do not give false testimony, that is, [testimony containing] mendacity and false¬ hood, and, when they come across senseless talk, in the way of vile Speech and otherwise, they pass by with dignity, shunning such [vanity]; [25:73] and those who, when they are reminded, [when] they are admonished, of the revelations of their Lord, that is, [reminded] of the Qur’an, do not fall on them deaf and blind, but fall [on them] listening,
Open in library →وَالَّذِينَ إِذَا ذُكِّرُوا بِآيَاتِ رَبِّهِمْ لَمْ يَخِرُّوا عَلَيْهَا صُمًّا وَعُمْيَانًا
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73. Those who, when reminded of Allah’s signs that are heard and seen, do not turn a deaf ear to the signs that are heard and do not turn a blind eye to the signs that are seen.
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وَالَّذِينَ يَقُولُونَ رَبَّنَا هَبْ لَنَا مِنْ أَزْوَاجِنَا وَذُرِّيَّاتِنَا قُرَّةَ أَعْيُنٍ وَاجْعَلْنَا لِلْمُتَّقِينَ إِمَامًا
Al-Mukhtasar
Tafsīr Center for Qur'anic Studies · Contemporary
74. Those who say in their prayer to their Lord: Our Lord, give us from our spouses and offspring those who will be the coolness of our eyes due to their piety and steadfastness on the truth. Make us leaders in truth who are emulated by those who are mindful of You.
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al-Maḥallī & al-Suyūṭī · 864–911 AH / 1459–1505 CE
e [true] servants of the Compassionate One ... those, they will be rewarded with the sublime abode’. [25:74] and those who say, ‘Our Lord! Grant us in our spouses and our offspring (redd plural dhurriyydtind or singular dhurriyyatina) a joyful sight, for us, so that we see them obedient to You, and make us para¬ gons, of virtue, for the God-fearing’. [25:75] Those, they will be rewarded with the sublime abode, the highest degree in Paradise, foras¬ much as they were TteadfaSl, in obedience to God, and they will be met (read yulaqqawna or yalqawna) therein, in this sublime abode, with a gr…
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Al-Mukhtasar
Tafsīr Center for Qur'anic Studies · Contemporary
75. Those who possess those attributes will be rewarded with lofty chambers in the highest stage of Paradise for their steadfastness in following Allah. There they will be met by the angels with greetings and peace and they will be safe there from all difficulties.
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خَالِدِينَ فِيهَا حَسُنَتْ مُسْتَقَرًّا وَمُقَامًا
Al-Mukhtasar
Tafsīr Center for Qur'anic Studies · Contemporary
76. There they will stay forever - a beautiful place of settlement for them to settle in and a place of residence for them to reside in.
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al-Maḥallī & al-Suyūṭī · 864–911 AH / 1459–1505 CE
r yalqawna) therein, in this sublime abode, with a greeting and [words of ] peace, from the angels; [25:76] abiding therein. Excellent is it as an abode and station, as a place of residence for them ( iilaika, ‘those, they..and what comes after it constitute the predicate to the subject ‘ibadu’l-rahmani, ‘the serv¬ ants of the Compassionate One ). 5
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Al-Mukhtasar
Tafsīr Center for Qur'anic Studies · Contemporary
77. Say - O Messenger, to the disbelievers who persist in their disbelief: My Lord will never care about you because of some benefit that He gets from your obedience. If it were not because He calls you for your benefit He would not have cared about you. Now since you rejected that which the Messengers brought from your Lord, the recompense for such rejection will be inseparable from you.
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al-Maḥallī & al-Suyūṭī · 864–911 AH / 1459–1505 CE
titute the predicate to the subject ‘ibadu’l-rahmani, ‘the serv¬ ants of the Compassionate One ). 5 [25:77] Say, O Muhammad (s), to the people of Mecca: ‘My Lord would not be concerned with you (md is for negation) were it not for your supplications, to Him [when you are] in adversity, which He then removes.…
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