Al-Munafiqun
المنافقون11 āyāt · 23 tafsīrs
إِذَا جَاءَكَ الْمُنَافِقُونَ قَالُوا نَشْهَدُ إِنَّكَ لَرَسُولُ اللَّهِ وَاللَّهُ يَعْلَمُ إِنَّكَ لَرَسُولُهُ وَاللَّهُ يَشْهَدُ إِنَّ الْمُنَافِقِينَ لَكَاذِبُونَ
Al-Mukhtasar
Tafsīr Center for Qur'anic Studies · Contemporary
1. When the hypocrites, who outwardly profess Islam and inwardly conceal disbelief, come to your gathering, O Messenger, they say: ‘We testify that you are truly the messenger of Allah.’ Allah testifies that the hypocrites are lying in their claim that they testify from the depth of their hearts that you are His messenger.
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al-Maḥallī & al-Suyūṭī · 864–911 AH / 1459–1505 CE
or punishment for engaging in such an action. In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful: [63:1] When the hypocrites come to you they say, with their tongues, in contradiction of what is in their hearts: ‘We bear witness that you are indeed the Messenger of God.’ And God knows that you are indeed His Messenger, and God bears witness.…
Open in library →اتَّخَذُوا أَيْمَانَهُمْ جُنَّةً فَصَدُّوا عَن سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ إِنَّهُمْ سَاءَ مَا كَانُوا يَعْمَلُونَ
Al-Mukhtasar
Tafsīr Center for Qur'anic Studies · Contemporary
2. They have made the oaths that they swear on their claim of faith a cover and protection for them from being killed or imprisoned. They turned people away from faith by the doubts and rumours that they spread. Evil is the hypocrisy and false oaths that they perpetrate.
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ذَٰلِكَ بِأَنَّهُمْ آمَنُوا ثُمَّ كَفَرُوا فَطُبِعَ عَلَىٰ قُلُوبِهِمْ فَهُمْ لَا يَفْقَهُونَ
Al-Mukhtasar
Tafsīr Center for Qur'anic Studies · Contemporary
3. That is because they hypocritically professed faith, but faith did not reach their hearts, and then they secretly rejected Allah, so He put a seal on their hearts on account of their disbelief so that faith cannot enter it. Due to this seal they do not understand that in which lies their rectitude and righteousness.
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al-Maḥallī & al-Suyūṭī · 864–911 AH / 1459–1505 CE
y of God, that is, from using them for the Struggle. Evil indeed is that which they are wont to do. [63:3] That, namely, their evil deed, is because they believed, by [affirming faith only with] the tongue, then disbelieved, in [their] hearts, that is to say, they persist in harbouring disbelief in it; therefore their hearts have been stamped, sealed, with disbelief. Hence they do not understand, faith.
Open in library →وَإِذَا رَأَيْتَهُمْ تُعْجِبُكَ أَجْسَامُهُمْ وَإِن يَقُولُوا تَسْمَعْ لِقَوْلِهِمْ كَأَنَّهُمْ خُشُبٌ مُّسَنَّدَةٌ يَحْسَبُونَ كُلَّ صَيْحَةٍ عَلَيْهِمْ هُمُ الْعَدُوُّ فَاحْذَرْهُمْ قَاتَلَهُمُ اللَّهُ أَنَّىٰ يُؤْفَكُونَ
Al-Mukhtasar
Tafsīr Center for Qur'anic Studies · Contemporary
4. When you see them, their appearance and form impresses you, because of the youthfulness and luxury they possess. If they speak, you listen to their speech because of its eloquence. As if they are propped-up timber in your gathering, O Messenger. They do not understand or pay heed to anything. They think that every sound is targeting them because of their cowardice. They are truly the enemy, so be careful, O Messenger, that they do not divulge a secret of yours or make a plot against you.…
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al-Maḥallī & al-Suyūṭī · 864–911 AH / 1459–1505 CE
refore their hearts have been stamped, sealed, with disbelief. Hence they do not understand, faith. [63:4] And when you see them, their figures please you, on account of their fairness; and if they Speak, you listen to their Speech, because of its eloquence. [Yet] they are, by virtue of the enormous size of their figures, [yet] in their lack of comprehension, like blocks of timber (read khushbun or khushubun ) [that have been] propped-up, set reclining againSt a wall.…
Open in library →وَإِذَا قِيلَ لَهُمْ تَعَالَوْا يَسْتَغْفِرْ لَكُمْ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ لَوَّوْا رُءُوسَهُمْ وَرَأَيْتَهُمْ يَصُدُّونَ وَهُم مُّسْتَكْبِرُونَ
Al-Mukhtasar
Tafsīr Center for Qur'anic Studies · Contemporary
5. When these hypocrites are told: Come to the Messenger of Allah and apologize for what you’ve done, he will seek from Allah forgiveness for your sins, they turn their heads in mockery and jest, and you see them turning away from what they are instructed to do, whilst they are too proud to accept the truth and submit to it.
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al-Maḥallī & al-Suyūṭī · 864–911 AH / 1459–1505 CE
y deviate?, how can they be turned away from faith after the proofs [for it] have been established? [63:5] And when it is said to them, ‘Come, offer apologies, and God’s Messenger will ask forgiveness for you’, they twiSt (read lawwaw or lawn), they turn, their heads, and you see them turning away, rejecting this [offer], disdainful. [63:6] It will be the same for them, whether you ask forgiveness for them (a’Staghfarta: the interrogative hamza here has taken the place of the conjunctive hamza ) or do not ask forgiveness for them: God will never forgive them.…
Open in library →سَوَاءٌ عَلَيْهِمْ أَسْتَغْفَرْتَ لَهُمْ أَمْ لَمْ تَسْتَغْفِرْ لَهُمْ لَن يَغْفِرَ اللَّهُ لَهُمْ إِنَّ اللَّهَ لَا يَهْدِي الْقَوْمَ الْفَاسِقِينَ
Al-Mukhtasar
Tafsīr Center for Qur'anic Studies · Contemporary
6. It is the same whether you, O Messenger, seek forgiveness for their sins or you do not seek forgiveness for them. Allah will never forgive their sins. Allah does not guide those who go against His obedience and who persist in disobeying Him.
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هُمُ الَّذِينَ يَقُولُونَ لَا تُنفِقُوا عَلَىٰ مَنْ عِندَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ حَتَّىٰ يَنفَضُّوا وَلِلَّهِ خَزَائِنُ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضِ وَلَٰكِنَّ الْمُنَافِقِينَ لَا يَفْقَهُونَ
Al-Mukhtasar
Tafsīr Center for Qur'anic Studies · Contemporary
7. They are the ones who say: “Do not spend your wealth on those poor people who are with the Messenger of Allah and the bedouins around Madina so that they disperse away from him.”The treasures of the heavens and the earth belong to Allah alone. He grants them to whichever servants of His He wishes. But the hypocrites do not know that the treasures of provision are in His hand, may He be glorified.
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al-Maḥallī & al-Suyūṭī · 864–911 AH / 1459–1505 CE
ask forgiveness for them: God will never forgive them. Indeed God does not guide the immoral folk. [63:7] Tltey are the ones who say, to their companions from among the Helpers: ‘Do not expend on those who are with the Messenger of God, from among the Emigrants, until they scatter off’, until they part with him. Yet to God belong the treasuries of the heavens and the earth, with [what they contain of] pro¬ vision, and so He is the provider for the Emigrants and others, but the hypocrites do not understand.
Open in library →يَقُولُونَ لَئِن رَّجَعْنَا إِلَى الْمَدِينَةِ لَيُخْرِجَنَّ الْأَعَزُّ مِنْهَا الْأَذَلَّ وَلِلَّهِ الْعِزَّةُ وَلِرَسُولِهِ وَلِلْمُؤْمِنِينَ وَلَٰكِنَّ الْمُنَافِقِينَ لَا يَعْلَمُونَ
Al-Mukhtasar
Tafsīr Center for Qur'anic Studies · Contemporary
8. Their leader, Abdullah bin Ubayy, says: If we return to Madina, the mighty - which is me and my people - will drive out the weak - which is Muhammad and his companions. To Allah alone belongs all might and to His Messenger and to the believers, and not to Abdullah bin Ubayy and his followers. But the hypocrites do not know that might belongs to Allah and to His Messenger and to the believers.
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al-Maḥallī & al-Suyūṭī · 864–911 AH / 1459–1505 CE
ision, and so He is the provider for the Emigrants and others, but the hypocrites do not understand. [63:8] They say, ‘Surely if we return, from the raid againSt the Banu al-Mustaliq, to Medina, the power¬ ful, by which they meant themselves, will [soon] expel from it the weaker’, by which they meant the believers.…
Open in library →يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا لَا تُلْهِكُمْ أَمْوَالُكُمْ وَلَا أَوْلَادُكُمْ عَن ذِكْرِ اللَّهِ وَمَن يَفْعَلْ ذَٰلِكَ فَأُولَٰئِكَ هُمُ الْخَاسِرُونَ
Al-Mukhtasar
Tafsīr Center for Qur'anic Studies · Contemporary
9. After Allah showed the keenness of the hypocrites on holding back from spending in order to prevent others from Allah’s path, He warns the believers against doing the same and instructs them to spend in His path by saying: O you who have faith in Allah, and who act on what He has ordained for you, do not let your wealth nor your children distract you from the prayer or any of the other obligations of Islam.…
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وَأَنفِقُوا مِن مَّا رَزَقْنَاكُم مِّن قَبْلِ أَن يَأْتِيَ أَحَدَكُمُ الْمَوْتُ فَيَقُولَ رَبِّ لَوْلَا أَخَّرْتَنِي إِلَىٰ أَجَلٍ قَرِيبٍ فَأَصَّدَّقَ وَأَكُن مِّنَ الصَّالِحِينَ
Al-Mukhtasar
Tafsīr Center for Qur'anic Studies · Contemporary
10. Spend from the wealth that Allah has provided to you before death comes to one of you and he says to his Lord: Lord, if only You would reprieve me for a short while, I would give charity from my wealth in Allah’s path and I would be one of Allah’s righteous servants whose actions are righteous.
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al-Maḥallī & al-Suyūṭī · 864–911 AH / 1459–1505 CE
remembrance of God, [from] the five prayers ;for whoever does that — it is they who are the losers. [63:10] And expend, in alms, of that with which We have provided you before death comes to any of you, whereat he will say, ‘My Lord, if only ( law-la means hal-la, ‘why [do You] not’; or the Id is extra and the law is optative) You woidd reprieve me for a short time so that I might give charity ( assaddaq: the original ta [of atasaddaqa ] has been assimilated with the sad), that I might offer alms, and become one of the righteous!’, by making the Pilgrimage.…
Open in library →وَلَن يُؤَخِّرَ اللَّهُ نَفْسًا إِذَا جَاءَ أَجَلُهَا وَاللَّهُ خَبِيرٌ بِمَا تَعْمَلُونَ
Al-Mukhtasar
Tafsīr Center for Qur'anic Studies · Contemporary
11. Allah(may He be glorified), will never reprieve a soul when its time comes and its life has ended. Allah is aware of what you do. Nothing of that is hidden from Him and He will recompense you for the same, if good then with good, and if evil then with bad.
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al-Maḥallī & al-Suyūṭī · 864–911 AH / 1459–1505 CE
regarding] alms and the Pilgrimage will ask to be returned [to this world] at the moment of death’. [63:11] But God will never reprieve a sold when its term has come. And God is Aware of what you do ( ta’maluna ; also read [as the third person plural] ya’maluna, ‘they do’). Meccan or Medinese, consisting of 18 verses. In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful: [64:1] All that is in the heavens and all that is in the earth glorifies God, [everything] proclaims His transcendence (the lam [of li’Llahi] is extra; ma is used instead of min in order to indicate the predomi¬ nance [o…
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