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1. Allah swore by the mountain on which He spoke to Moses (peace be upon him).

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

he Merciful: [52:1] By the Mount, that is, the [name of the] mountain on which God Sjioke to Moses, [52:3] on an unrolled parchment, that is, the Torah or the Qur’an. [52:4] By the [greatly] frequented House — which is [located] in the third, or the sixth or the seventh heaven, direcftly above the Ka'ba; it is visited every day by seventy thousand angels, circumambulating it and performing prayers [around it], and never returning to it; [52:5] and the raised roof, that is to say, the heaven, [52:6] and the swarming sea: that is to say, the one that is filled: [52:7] lo! your Lord’s chas…

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2. And he swore by the Qur’ān which is a written book

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3. On a spread-open paper.

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4. And He swore by the House in the heavens which the angels in the heavens inhabit by worshipping Allah.

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5. And He swore by the sky.

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

seventy thousand angels, circumambulating it and performing prayers [around it], and never returning to it; [52:5] and the raised roof, that is to say, the heaven, [52:6] and the swarming sea: that is to say, the one that is filled: [52:7] lo! your Lord’s chastisement will assuredly take place, it will assuredly come down on those who deserve it; [52:8] there is none that can avert it, from such [a deserving one]. [52:9] On the day ( yawma is operated by la-waqiun, ‘will assuredly take place’) when the heaven will heave with a great heaving, [when it will] move and Sjiin, [52:10] and th…

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6. And He swore by the sea filled with water.

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7. O Messenger, the punishment of your Lord will definitely occur on the disbelievers.

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8. There is nobody to repel it from them and save them from it befalling them.

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

down on those who deserve it; [52:8] there is none that can avert it, from such [a deserving one]. [52:9] On the day ( yawma is operated by la-waqiun, ‘will assuredly take place’) when the heaven will heave with a great heaving, [when it will] move and Sjiin, [52:10] and the mountains move with a great motion, becoming scattered duSt, this is the Day of Resurrection. [52:11] Woe then, terrible chastisement [will come], on that day to the deniers, of the messengers, [52:12] those who play around in vain talk, [in] falsehood, that is to say, those who are busily engaged with their disbel…

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9. The day in which the heavens (or sky) will move violently, in full accordance with the arrival of the Hour.

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10. And the mountains will travel from their places.

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11. So destruction and loss on that day will be for those who deny the punishment Allah promised the disbelievers.

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12. Those who are in their discourse in falsehood, playing. They do not care about resurrection or being raised.

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

Woe then, terrible chastisement [will come], on that day to the deniers, of the messengers, [52:12] those who play around in vain talk, [in] falsehood, that is to say, those who are busily engaged with their disbelief; [52:13] thedaywhen they will be thruSt with a violent thruSt into Hell, [when] they will be pushed vio¬ lently (this [laSt clause, yawma yuda“una ila nari jahannama da“an] is a substitution for yawma tamuru, ‘the day when [the heaven] will heave’) and it will be said to them in reproach: [52:14] ‘This is the Fire which you used to deny! [52:15] Is this then sorcery, [this]…

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13. The day they will be pushed with force and harshness towards the fire of hell.

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

nd in vain talk, [in] falsehood, that is to say, those who are busily engaged with their disbelief; [52:13] thedaywhen they will be thruSt with a violent thruSt into Hell, [when] they will be pushed vio¬ lently (this [laSt clause, yawma yuda“una ila nari jahannama da“an] is a substitution for yawma tamuru, ‘the day when [the heaven] will heave’) and it will be said to them in reproach: [52:14] ‘This is the Fire which you used to deny! [52:15] Is this then sorcery, [this] chastisement that you see — as you were wont to say about the revela¬ tion, that it was sorcery — or is it that you do…

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14. And it will be said to them in rebuke, “This is the fire you used to deny when your messengers used to warn you of it.

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15. Is this punishment which you see magic, or are you not seeing it?

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16. Taste the heat of this fire and suffer it. Be patient over suffering its heat or not; your patience or impatience is all the same. You will not be rewarded today except with the disbelief and sins you used to commit in the world”.

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

as you were wont to say about the revela¬ tion, that it was sorcery — or is it that you do not see? [52:16] Burn in it! And whether you endure, it, or do not endure, your endurance and your anguish, will be the same for you, because your endurance will be of no use to you. You are only being requited for what you used to do’, that is to say, [only] the requital for it. [52:17] Truly the God-fearing will be amid gardens and bliss,

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17. Those who are mindful of their Lord by carrying out His commands and refraining from His prohibitions will be in gardens and a great pleasure which will never end.

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

s to say, [only] the requital for it. [52:17] Truly the God-fearing will be amid gardens and bliss, [52:18] rejoicing, delighting, in what ( bi-ma relates to the verbal acftion) their Lord has given them, and [that] their Lord has shielded them from the chastisement of Hell-fire ( wa-waqahum rabbuhum ‘adhaba’l-jahimi is a supplement to atahum, ‘[what He] has given them’, in other words, [rejoicing] in their having been given [this reward] and shielded [from Hell-fire]). [52:19] And it will said to them: ‘Eat and drink in full enjoyment (ham an is a circumstantial qualifier, that is to sa…

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18. They will be enjoying the pleasures of food, drink and marriage that Allah will have given them, and their Lord (may He be glorified), protected them from the punishment of hell. Hence, they were successful through achieving their desired pleasures and by being protected from difficulties.

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19. It will be said to them: “Eat and drink of what your souls desire, in satisfaction without fearing harm or pain from what you eat and drink, as a reward for your excellent actions in the world”.

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

in other words, [rejoicing] in their having been given [this reward] and shielded [from Hell-fire]). [52:19] And it will said to them: ‘Eat and drink in full enjoyment (ham an is a circumstantial qualifier, that is to say, muhanna’ina) [as a reward] for what ( bi-ma: the bi- is causative) you used to do’. [52:20] [They will be] reclining (muttaki’ina is a circumstantial qualifier referring to the concealed sub¬ ject of God’s words fljanndtin, amid gardens’) on ranged couches, [arranged] one next to the other, and We will wed them (zawwajnahum is a supplement to jannatin, ‘gardens’, meaning…

Al-Mukhtasar

Tafsīr Center for Qur'anic Studies · Contemporary

20. Reclining on adorned thrones which have been lined up, and I will marry them to fair women with beautiful wide eyes.

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

that is to say, muhanna’ina) [as a reward] for what ( bi-ma: the bi- is causative) you used to do’. [52:20] [They will be] reclining (muttaki’ina is a circumstantial qualifier referring to the concealed sub¬ ject of God’s words fljanndtin, amid gardens’) on ranged couches, [arranged] one next to the other, and We will wed them (zawwajnahum is a supplement to jannatin, ‘gardens’, meaning ‘We will couple them) to beautiful houris, of wide and beautiful eyes.

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21. And those who brought faith and whose children followed them in faith - I will join their children with them so that they are pleased with them, even though they did not reach their actions. And I will not decrease anything from the reward of their actions. Every person will be held for the bad actions he earned; nobody else will bear any of his actions.

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

jannatin, ‘gardens’, meaning ‘We will couple them) to beautiful houris, of wide and beautiful eyes. [52:21] And those who believed (wa’lladhina amanu, the subjecft) and whom We made to be followed (wa-atbanahum-. a variant reading has wa’ttabaathum, ‘and there followed them’, as a supplement to amanu, ‘who believed’) by their descendants (dhurriyatihim: a variant reading [for this plural] has dhurriyatuhum ),' young and old, in faith, on the part of the older ones and on the part of the parents in [their] young ones (the predicate [of the subjecft above] is [the following, alhaqna bihim )…

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22. And I will provide these people of Paradise with different fruits and I will provide them with all the meat they desire.

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

to what he has earned, of good or evil deeds, and will be requited for evil and rewarded for good. [52:22] And We will supply them. We will enhance for them [their provision], from time to time, with fruits and meat, such as they desire, even if they do not request it openly. [52:23] They will pass from one to another therein, in Paradise, a cup, [of] wine, wherein is neither vain talk, which might come about between them as a result of drinking it, nor cause for sin, thereby, that might befall them — in contract to [the case with] the wine of this world.

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23. They will give to one another cups of wine, bearing no resemeblness to the wine of this world, free from intoxication and that which arises from it, such as false speech.

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Al-Mukhtasar

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24. And servants will circle amongst them, as though they are protected pearls.

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

e for sin, thereby, that might befall them — in contract to [the case with] the wine of this world. [52:24] And there will circulate from all around them, for service, youths, delicate [in demeanour], of their own, as if, in terms of their beauty and immaculateness, they were hidden pearls, preserved inside shells, because when it [a pearl] is inside it, it is better than one that is not. [52:25] And some among them will turn to one another, questioning each other — they ask one another about how they were in the pa£t and what they have now attained, in their delight and acknowledgement…

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25. The people of Paradise will turn to one another, asking each other about their condition in the world.

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26. They will respond to them: “We were, in the world amongst our families, fearful of Allah’s punishment.

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nd what they have now attained, in their delight and acknowledgement of the grace [of God to them]. [52:26] They say, as an intimation of the reason for this attainment: ‘Truly, before, amid our families, in the world, we used to be ever anxious, afraid of God’s chastisement; [52:27] but God showed us favour, through [His] forgiveness, and shielded us from the piercing chas¬ tisement (al-samum), the Fire, so called because it penetrates the pores ( al-masamm ); and they say, also by way of intimation:

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27. So Allah favoured us by guiding us to Islam, and He protected us from the punishment which is extremely hot.

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

our families, in the world, we used to be ever anxious, afraid of God’s chastisement; [52:27] but God showed us favour, through [His] forgiveness, and shielded us from the piercing chas¬ tisement (al-samum), the Fire, so called because it penetrates the pores ( al-masamm ); and they say, also by way of intimation: [52:28] indeed before, that is, in the world, we used to call on Him, worship Him, affirming His Oneness.…

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28. We used to worship Him in our worldly life and we used to pray to Him to protect us from the fire of hell. He is Beneficent to His servants and Merciful to them. Part of His beneficence and mercy upon us is that He guided us to faith, entered us into Paradise and distanced us from the fire.”

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

, so called because it penetrates the pores ( al-masamm ); and they say, also by way of intimation: [52:28] indeed before, that is, in the world, we used to call on Him, worship Him, affirming His Oneness. Verily He is (read innahu as the beginning of a new [independent] sentence, even if it introduces the reason in terms of its import; or read annahu as a reason in terms of the [syntactical] order of the words) the Benign, the Beneficent, the True to His promise, the Merciful, One of tremendous mercy.

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29. So remind through the Qur’ān, O Messenger, for you are not, by the faith and intelligence Allah has favoured you with, a soothsayer with visions of jinns nor are you insane.

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

words) the Benign, the Beneficent, the True to His promise, the Merciful, One of tremendous mercy. [52:29] So remind, persist in reminding the idolaters and do not desist [from this] even if they say to you that you are a soothsayer or a madman. For by the grace of your Lord, by His bestowal of grace on you, you are neither soothsayer (bi-kahinin is the predicate of ma) nor madman (wa-la majnunin, a supplement to it). [52:30] Or (am means bal) do they say, that he is: ‘A poet, for whom we may await the accidents of fate?’, the vicissitudes of time, so that he will just die like other poe…

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30. Do these idolaters say: “Muhammad is not a messenger, but he is a poet whom we await death to seize so we can be relieved of him”?

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31. O Messenger, say to them: “Await my death, and I will await the punishment which will befall you due to denying me”.

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32. Or do their minds tell them to say: “He is a soothsayer and insane?” So they combine what cannot gather in one person, but rather they are a people who trespass the bounds, hence they do not return to any sacred law or intellect.

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

h you awaiting’, your death. They were then chastised with [death by] the sword on the day of Badr. [52:32] Or do their faculties of understanding prompt them to [say] this?, their saying to him: [you are either] a sorcerer, a poet, a soothsayer or a madman, in other words, they do not [in reality] prompt them to [say] this. Or (am, [in effect] means bal, ‘rather’) are they a rebellious lot?, because of their obdinacy. [52:33] Or do they say, ‘He has improvised it?’, he has conceded the Qur’an. He has not conceded it; Rather they do not believe, out of arrogance.…

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33. Or do they say: “Muhammad fabricated this Qur’ān and nothing has been revealed to him?” He has not fabricated it, but rather they are too arrogant to have faith in it, so they say: “He has fabricated it”.

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Tafsīr Center for Qur'anic Studies · Contemporary

34. So let them produce a narrative like it, even if it has been fabricated, if they are true in their claim that he has fabricated it.

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

[52:34] Then let them bring a, conceded, discourse like it, if they are truthful, in what they say. [52:35] Or were they created out of nothing?, [that is] without a Creator. Or are they the creators?, of themselves. It makes no sense for a created thing to have no creator, nor can a thing that will cease to exigent [have the power to] create.…

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Tafsīr Center for Qur'anic Studies · Contemporary

35. Or have they been created without a creator to create them? Or are they their own creators? The existence of a creation without a creator or a creation which creates itself is impossible, so why do they not worship their own creator?

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

them bring a, conceded, discourse like it, if they are truthful, in what they say. [52:35] Or were they created out of nothing?, [that is] without a Creator. Or are they the creators?, of themselves. It makes no sense for a created thing to have no creator, nor can a thing that will cease to exigent [have the power to] create.…

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Tafsīr Center for Qur'anic Studies · Contemporary

36. Or did they create the heavens and the earth? But they do not have conviction that Allah is their Creator, if they had been convinced of that, they would have declared His oneness and brought faith in His Messenger.

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37. Or do they have the treasures of your Lord’s provision to give to whom they wish, and prophethood to give to or stop from whom they want? Or are they the controllers and disposers according to their wish?

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

Him? Nay, but they are not certain, of Him, for otherwise they would have believed in His Prophet. [52:37] Or do they possess the treasuries of your Lord?, in the way of prophethood, provision and other matters, so that they are able to assign what they will exclusively to whom they will? Or are they the ones in control?, [or] are they the mighty ones who hold sway? (the verb [from musaytiruna ] is saytara, simi¬ lar [in root form] to baytara, ‘to practice veterinary medicine’, or bayqara, ‘to corrupt’, ‘to ruin’).

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38. Or do they have a ladder with which to climb to the sky in which they listen to Allah’s revelation which He sends to tell them they are on the truth? So let the one who listens amongst them to that revelation bring a clear proof to affirm you in your claim that you are on truth.

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

[in root form] to baytara, ‘to practice veterinary medicine’, or bayqara, ‘to corrupt’, ‘to ruin’). [52:38] Or do they have a ladder, a means of ascension into the heaven, whereby they eavesdrop?, that is, at the top of which [they liden in], on the conversations of the angels, so that they are then able to dilute with the Prophet, as they claim. If that is what they assert: Then let their eavesdropper, [let] the one claiming to be able to liden [in on their conversations] on top of this [ladder], produce a manifest warrant, a plain and evident proof.…

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Tafsīr Center for Qur'anic Studies · Contemporary

39. Or does He (may He be glorified) have daughters which you dislike, whilst you have sons which you love?

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

his assertion to their assertion that the angels are the daughters of God, He, exalted be He, says: [52:39] Or does He have daughters, as you claim, whereas you have sons? Exalted be God above what you claim! [ 5 2:40] Or are you asking them for a fee, a wage in return for what you have brought them in the way of religion, so that they are weighed down with debt?, [with] the liability for this, so that they are unable to submit [to God]. [52:41] Or do they have [access to] the Unseen, that is, the knowledge of it, so that they can write it down?, and are hence able to dilute with the Pr…

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40. Or do you, O Messenger, seek a wage from them for what you convey to them from their Lord, due to which they are burdened with something they cannot bear?

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41. Or do they have knowledge of the Ghaib, so that they write for people what they learn from the Ghaib and inform them of what they want therefrom?

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42. Or do these deniers intend to plot against you and your religion. Trust in Allah, as those who disbelieved in Allah and His Messenger are the ones who will be plotted against, not you.

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

he Prophet (s) regarding the Resurrection and the matters relating to the Hereafter, as they claim. [52:42] Or do they desire to outmanoeuvre?, you and have you killed, at the Assembly Council. But those who disbelieve, they are the outmanoeuvred ones!, the vanquished and the ones dedroyed. God preserved him from them and then dedroyed them at Badr. [52:43] Or do they have a god other than God? Glory be to God [exalted is He] above any partners that they may ascribe!, to Him in the way of gods (the succession of interrogatives with am, ‘or’, are intended to express censure and rebuke).

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43. Or do they have a true god besides Allah? Pure and exalted is Allah from the partner they attribute to him. None of what was mentioned has happened or is even thinkable.

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44. And if they see a piece of the sky falling, they will say: “This is a cloud which is piled up on each other as usual”. So they do not take heed or believe.

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

gods (the succession of interrogatives with am, ‘or’, are intended to express censure and rebuke). [52:44] And if they were to see a fragment, a portion, of the heaven falling, on them — as they say, Then make fragments of the heaven fall upon us [Q. 26:187], as a chadisement for them — they would say, this is: A heap of clouds!’, piled on top of one another, that will bring us water; and so they do not believe. [52:45] So leave them until they encounter that day of theirs in which they will be thunderstruck, [in which] they will die; [52:46] the day when their guile will avail them noth…

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Tafsīr Center for Qur'anic Studies · Contemporary

45. So leave them, O Messenger, in their stubbornness and denial until they meet their day in which they will be punished, which is the day of judgment.

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46. The day when their plot will neither help them a little or a lot, nor will they be helped by being saved from the punishment.

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47. And for those who wronged themselves through idolatry and sins is a punishment before the punishment of the afterlife: in this life through being killed and imprisoned, and in the Transitory Stage through punishment of the grave. However, most of them do not know that, which is why they remain on their disbelief.

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

) and they will not be helped, they will [not] be protected from the chastisement in the Hereafter. [52:47] And assuredly for those who do wrong, by their [persistence in] disbelief, there is a chastisement beyond that, in this world, before their death — thus they were punished with famine and drought for seven years, and with being killed on the day of Badr; but moSt of them do not know, that the chastise¬ ment will befall them.

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Tafsīr Center for Qur'anic Studies · Contemporary

48. Be patient, O Messenger, on the decree of your Lord and His divine law, as you are in My sight and protection. And glorify and praise your Lord when you stand from your sleep.

Tafsir al-Jalalayn

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

killed on the day of Badr; but moSt of them do not know, that the chastise¬ ment will befall them. [52:48] And submit patiently to the judgement of your Lord, that they be reprieved, and do not be grieved, for surely you fare before Our eyes, [you are] in Our sight, We see you and preserve you. And glorify, continuously, with praise of your Lord, that is to say, say subhana’Llahi wa bi-hamdihi, ‘Glory, and praise, be to God!’, when you rise, from your sleeping-place or your sitting-place,

Al-Mukhtasar

Tafsīr Center for Qur'anic Studies · Contemporary

49. And at night, glorify your Lord and pray to Him, and pray the Fajr prayer after the stars have set due to daylight.

Tafsir al-Jalalayn

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

hi, ‘Glory, and praise, be to God!’, when you rise, from your sleeping-place or your sitting-place, [52:49] and glorify Him at night — also in acftual [utterance] — and at the receding of the Stars ( idbara is a verbal noun), that is to say, also glorify Him after these have set; or [it means] in the case of the former, perform the two evening prayers, and in the case of the latter, the two units ( rak‘a ) of the dawn prayer, or — it is said — the morning prayer. Meccan, except for verse 32, which is Medinese; it consists of 62 verses. In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful:…