At-Tahrim
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يَا أَيُّهَا النَّبِيُّ لِمَ تُحَرِّمُ مَا أَحَلَّ اللَّهُ لَكَ تَبْتَغِي مَرْضَاتَ أَزْوَاجِكَ وَاللَّهُ غَفُورٌ رَّحِيمٌ
Al-Mukhtasar
Tafsīr Center for Qur'anic Studies · Contemporary
1. O Messenger! Why do you make impermissible that which Allah has made permissible for you, i.e. making use of your servant girl Mariah, wanting to please your wives in doing so after they expressed protective jealousy over her? Allah is Forgiving towards you and is Merciful to you.
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al-Maḥallī & al-Suyūṭī · 864–911 AH / 1459–1505 CE
that God encompasses all things in knowledge. In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful: [66:1] O Prophet! Why do you prohibit what God has made lawful for you, in terms of your Coptic handmaiden Mariya — when he lay with her in the house of Hafsa, who had been away, but who upon returning [and finding out] became upset by the fad: that this had taken place in her own house and on her own bed — by saying, ‘She is unlawful for me!’, seeking, by making her unlawful [for you], to please your wives? And God is Forgiving, Merciful, having forgiven you this prohibition.
Open in library →قَدْ فَرَضَ اللَّهُ لَكُمْ تَحِلَّةَ أَيْمَانِكُمْ وَاللَّهُ مَوْلَاكُمْ وَهُوَ الْعَلِيمُ الْحَكِيمُ
Al-Mukhtasar
Tafsīr Center for Qur'anic Studies · Contemporary
2. Verily, Allah has legislated for you to break your oaths by giving expiation if you find something better than the oaths your took or if you go against them. Allah is your helper and He is The Knower of your circumstances and what is best for you; He is The Wise in His legislation and decree.
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al-Maḥallī & al-Suyūṭī · 864–911 AH / 1459–1505 CE
r you], to please your wives? And God is Forgiving, Merciful, having forgiven you this prohibition. [66:2] Verily God has prescribed. He has made lawful, for you [when necessary] the absolution of your oaths, to absolve them by expiation, as mentioned in the surat al-Maida [Q. 5:89] and the forbidding of [sexual relations with] a handmaiden counts as an oath, so did the Prophet (s) expiate? Muqatil [b.…
Open in library →وَإِذْ أَسَرَّ النَّبِيُّ إِلَىٰ بَعْضِ أَزْوَاجِهِ حَدِيثًا فَلَمَّا نَبَّأَتْ بِهِ وَأَظْهَرَهُ اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ عَرَّفَ بَعْضَهُ وَأَعْرَضَ عَن بَعْضٍ فَلَمَّا نَبَّأَهَا بِهِ قَالَتْ مَنْ أَنبَأَكَ هَٰذَا قَالَ نَبَّأَنِيَ الْعَلِيمُ الْخَبِيرُ
Al-Mukhtasar
Tafsīr Center for Qur'anic Studies · Contemporary
3. And remember when the Prophet (peace be upon him) mentioned something only to Ḥafṣah, and that was that he will never again go close to his wife Mariah. So after Ḥafṣah informed ‘Ā’ishah of the information, and Allah informed His Messenger of his secret having been spread, he reprimanded Ḥafṣah and told her part of what she had said, not mentioning another. So she asked him, “Who informed you of this?” He replied, “The Knower of everything and The Aware of every hidden thing informed me of it.”
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al-Maḥallī & al-Suyūṭī · 864–911 AH / 1459–1505 CE
een forgiven [all errors]’. And God is your Protestor, your Helper, and He is the Knower, the Wise. [66:3] And, mention, when the Prophet confided to one of his wives, namely, Hafsa, a certain matter, which was his prohibition of Mariya, telling her: ‘Do not reveal it!’; but when she divulged it, to ‘A’isha, reckoning there to be no blame in [doing] such a thing, and God apprised him. He informed him, of it, of what had been divulged, he announced part of it, to Hafsa, and passed over part, out of gracious¬ ness on his part.…
Open in library →إِن تَتُوبَا إِلَى اللَّهِ فَقَدْ صَغَتْ قُلُوبُكُمَا وَإِن تَظَاهَرَا عَلَيْهِ فَإِنَّ اللَّهَ هُوَ مَوْلَاهُ وَجِبْرِيلُ وَصَالِحُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ وَالْمَلَائِكَةُ بَعْدَ ذَٰلِكَ ظَهِيرٌ
Al-Mukhtasar
Tafsīr Center for Qur'anic Studies · Contemporary
4. It is your duty that you both repent, because your hearts have inclined towards liking something the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) disliked, i.e. staying away from his servant girl and forbidding her upon himself. And if you insist upon joining forces against him, then know that Allah is his guardian and helper, and so is Gabriel and the best of believers. The angels are also his helpers and supporters after Allah against those who cause inconvenience to him.
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al-Maḥallī & al-Suyūṭī · 864–911 AH / 1459–1505 CE
out it, she said, ‘Who told you this?’ He said, ‘I was told by the Knower, the Aware’, namely, God. [66:4] If the two of you, namely, Hafsa and ‘A’isha, repent to God ...for your hearts were certainly inclined, towards the prohibition of Mariya, that is to say, your keeping this secret de^ite [knowing] the Prophet’s (s) dislike of it, which is itself a sin (the re^onse to the conditional [‘if the two of you repent to God’] has been omitted, to be understood as, ‘it will be accepted of both of you’; the use of [the plural] qulub, ‘hearts’, in¬ stead of [the dual] qalbayn, ‘both [your] hear…
Open in library →عَسَىٰ رَبُّهُ إِن طَلَّقَكُنَّ أَن يُبْدِلَهُ أَزْوَاجًا خَيْرًا مِّنكُنَّ مُسْلِمَاتٍ مُّؤْمِنَاتٍ قَانِتَاتٍ تَائِبَاتٍ عَابِدَاتٍ سَائِحَاتٍ ثَيِّبَاتٍ وَأَبْكَارًا
Al-Mukhtasar
Tafsīr Center for Qur'anic Studies · Contemporary
5. It is very likely that if His Messenger was to divorce both of you, Allah may He be glorified will give him wives better than you, who are submissive to his instructions, believing in Allah and His Messenger, obedient to Allah, repenting of their sins, devoted to their Lord, fasting; previously married and virgins whom no one except the Messenger has touched. However, he did not divorce them.
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al-Maḥallī & al-Suyūṭī · 864–911 AH / 1459–1505 CE
mentioned, are his supporters, assistants of his, in supporting him [to prevail] over both of you. [66:5] It may be that, if he divorces you, that is, [if] the Prophet divorces his wives, his Lord will give him in [your] Head (read yubaddilahu or yubdilahu) wives better than you ( azwdjan khayran minkunna is the predicate of ‘asa, ‘it may be’, the sentence being the response to the conditional) — the replace¬ ment [of his wives by God] never took place because the condition [of his divorcing them] never arose — women submissive [to God], affirming Islam, believing, faithful, obedient, pen…
Open in library →يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا قُوا أَنفُسَكُمْ وَأَهْلِيكُمْ نَارًا وَقُودُهَا النَّاسُ وَالْحِجَارَةُ عَلَيْهَا مَلَائِكَةٌ غِلَاظٌ شِدَادٌ لَّا يَعْصُونَ اللَّهَ مَا أَمَرَهُمْ وَيَفْعَلُونَ مَا يُؤْمَرُونَ
Al-Mukhtasar
Tafsīr Center for Qur'anic Studies · Contemporary
6. O those who have faith in Allah and act according to what He has legislated for them! Put up a barrier for yourselves and your families against a huge fire which is stoked with people and stones. Appointed over this fire are tough angels who are harsh to whoever enters it. They do not disobey the command of Allah when He commands them, and they do whatever He commands them to do without hesitation or showing weakness.
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al-Maḥallī & al-Suyūṭī · 864–911 AH / 1459–1505 CE
ud Shihata (ed.), (Cairo: al-Hay’a al-Misriyya al-‘amma, 1979-88), but the work was later retraced. [66:6] Oyou who believe! Guard yourselves and your families, by enjoining obedience to God, against a Fire whose fuel is, disbelieving, people and Hones, such as those idols of theirs made of that [stone] — the meaning is that it is extremely hot, fuelled by the above-mentioned, unlike the fire of this world which is fuelled by wood and the like — over which Hand angels, its keepers — numbering nineteen as will be stated in [surat] al-Muddaththir [Q.…
Open in library →يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا لَا تَعْتَذِرُوا الْيَوْمَ إِنَّمَا تُجْزَوْنَ مَا كُنتُمْ تَعْمَلُونَ
Al-Mukhtasar
Tafsīr Center for Qur'anic Studies · Contemporary
7. The disbelievers will be told on the day of resurrection: O you who have disbelieved in Allah! Do not make excuses today for the disbelief and sins you used to commit, because your excuses will not be accepted. Today, you will be requited only for the disbelief in Allah and rejection of His Messengers you used to perpetrate in the world.
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al-Maḥallī & al-Suyūṭī · 864–911 AH / 1459–1505 CE
from apoStatising and for hypocrites who believe only with their tongues and not with their hearts. [66:7] ‘O you who disbelieve! Do not make any excuses today — this is said to them upon their entering the Fire — in other words, because this [excusing] will be of no use to you. You are only being requited for what you used to do’, that is, [only] the [due] requital thereof.
Open in library →يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا تُوبُوا إِلَى اللَّهِ تَوْبَةً نَّصُوحًا عَسَىٰ رَبُّكُمْ أَن يُكَفِّرَ عَنكُمْ سَيِّئَاتِكُمْ وَيُدْخِلَكُمْ جَنَّاتٍ تَجْرِي مِن تَحْتِهَا الْأَنْهَارُ يَوْمَ لَا يُخْزِي اللَّهُ النَّبِيَّ وَالَّذِينَ آمَنُوا مَعَهُ نُورُهُمْ يَسْعَىٰ بَيْنَ أَيْدِيهِمْ وَبِأَيْمَانِهِمْ يَقُولُونَ رَبَّنَا أَتْمِمْ لَنَا نُورَنَا وَاغْفِرْ لَنَا إِنَّكَ عَلَىٰ كُلِّ شَيْءٍ قَدِيرٌ
Al-Mukhtasar
Tafsīr Center for Qur'anic Studies · Contemporary
8. O those who have faith in Allah and act according to what He has legislated for them! Repent to Allah sincerely for your sins; Allah will erase your sins from your records and enter you into gardens on the, under the palaces and trees of which rivers flow, on the Day of Judgement: a day on which Allah will not humiliate the Prophet nor those who had faith with him, by entering them into the hellfire.…
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al-Maḥallī & al-Suyūṭī · 864–911 AH / 1459–1505 CE
. You are only being requited for what you used to do’, that is, [only] the [due] requital thereof. [66:8] Oyou who believe! Repent to God with sincere repentance (read nasuhan or nusuhan), a truthful [repentance], so that one does not return to [committing] that sin again, nor have the desire to return to it.…
Open in library →يَا أَيُّهَا النَّبِيُّ جَاهِدِ الْكُفَّارَ وَالْمُنَافِقِينَ وَاغْلُظْ عَلَيْهِمْ وَمَأْوَاهُمْ جَهَنَّمُ وَبِئْسَ الْمَصِيرُ
Al-Mukhtasar
Tafsīr Center for Qur'anic Studies · Contemporary
9. O Messenger! Strive against the disbelievers with the sword, and against the hypocrites with your tongue and upholding the punishments. And be harsh against them so that they fear you. The abode they will end up in on the Day of Judgement is hell, and that abode is a very evil abode indeed.
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al-Maḥallī & al-Suyūṭī · 864–911 AH / 1459–1505 CE
r light will be extinguished — and forgive us. Our Lord. Assuredly You have power over all things’. [66:9] O Prophet! Struggle againH the disbelievers, with the sword, and the hypocrites, by the tongue and with argument, and be Hern with them, in rebuke and hatred. For their abode will be Hell — and [what] an evil journey’s end!, it is.
Open in library →ضَرَبَ اللَّهُ مَثَلًا لِّلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا امْرَأَتَ نُوحٍ وَامْرَأَتَ لُوطٍ كَانَتَا تَحْتَ عَبْدَيْنِ مِنْ عِبَادِنَا صَالِحَيْنِ فَخَانَتَاهُمَا فَلَمْ يُغْنِيَا عَنْهُمَا مِنَ اللَّهِ شَيْئًا وَقِيلَ ادْخُلَا النَّارَ مَعَ الدَّاخِلِينَ
Al-Mukhtasar
Tafsīr Center for Qur'anic Studies · Contemporary
10. Allah gives an example of those who disbelieve in Allah and His Messenger that their relationship with the believers will not benefit them in any condition: the example of the two wives of two of the prophets of Allah: the wives of Noah and Lot. For verily they were wives to two pious servants, but they deceived their husbands by preventing from the path of Allah and helping the people of disbelief from their nations.…
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al-Maḥallī & al-Suyūṭī · 864–911 AH / 1459–1505 CE
hem, in rebuke and hatred. For their abode will be Hell — and [what] an evil journey’s end!, it is. [66:10] God has Hruck a similitude for those who disbelieve: the wife of Noah and the wife of Lot. They were under two of Our righteous servants, yet they betrayed them, in [their] religion, for they both disbe¬ lieved — Noah’s wife, called Wahila, used to say to his people that he was a madman, while Lot’s wife, called Wa'ila, used to tell his people the whereabouts of his guests when they stayed with him, at night by lighting a fire, and during the day by making smoke.…
Open in library →وَضَرَبَ اللَّهُ مَثَلًا لِّلَّذِينَ آمَنُوا امْرَأَتَ فِرْعَوْنَ إِذْ قَالَتْ رَبِّ ابْنِ لِي عِندَكَ بَيْتًا فِي الْجَنَّةِ وَنَجِّنِي مِن فِرْعَوْنَ وَعَمَلِهِ وَنَجِّنِي مِنَ الْقَوْمِ الظَّالِمِينَ
Al-Mukhtasar
Tafsīr Center for Qur'anic Studies · Contemporary
11. And Allah also mentions an example to those who have faith in Him and His Messengers, that their connections with the disbelievers will not harm them or affect them as long as they remain steadfast upon the truth: the example of the wife of Pharaoh when she said: “O my Lord! Build a house for me near You in Paradise, and save me from the tyranny of Pharaoh, his might and his evil deeds; and save me also from the people who wrong themselves by following him in his transgression and oppression.”
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al-Maḥallī & al-Suyūṭī · 864–911 AH / 1459–1505 CE
you, the Fire along with the incomers’, from among the disbelievers of the peoples of Noah and Lot. [66:11] And God has Hruck a similitude for those who believe: the wife of Pharaoh — she believed in Moses, her name was Asiya; Pharaoh chastised her by tying her hands and feet to pegs and placing a huge millstone on her cheSt, and having her laid out in the sun; but when those in charge of her would leave her, the angels would [come to] shade her — when she said, during her torture, ‘My Lord, build for me a home near You in Paradise, — so He disclosed for her [a veil of the Unseen] and she…
Open in library →وَمَرْيَمَ ابْنَتَ عِمْرَانَ الَّتِي أَحْصَنَتْ فَرْجَهَا فَنَفَخْنَا فِيهِ مِن رُّوحِنَا وَصَدَّقَتْ بِكَلِمَاتِ رَبِّهَا وَكُتُبِهِ وَكَانَتْ مِنَ الْقَانِتِينَ
Al-Mukhtasar
Tafsīr Center for Qur'anic Studies · Contemporary
12. And Allah also mentions an example for those who have faith in Him and His Messengers, in the condition of Mary the daughter of ‘Imrān who safeguarded her private parts from fornication, so Allah commanded Gabriel to blow into her due to which she fell pregnant through the power of Allah with Jesus the son of Mary, without a father. She also believed in the religions of Allah and the books revealed to His Messengers, and she was obedient to Allah by fulfilling His commands and refraining from the things He did not allow.
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al-Maḥallī & al-Suyūṭī · 864–911 AH / 1459–1505 CE
r Spirit [in death]. Ibn Kaysan said, ‘She was raised to Paradise alive, where she eats and drinks’. [66:12] And Mary ( wa-Maryama is a supplement to imra’ata Firawna ) daughter of‘Imran, who pre¬ served [the chaHity of] her womb, so We breathed into it of Our Spirit, namely, Gabriel — when he breathed into the opening of her shirt, by God’s creation of this ad ion of his which reached her womb, thus conceiving Jesus — and she confirmed the words of her Lord, His prescriptions, and His, revealed, Scriptures and she was of the obedient, [one] of the obedient folk. In the Name of God, the C…
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