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الملك30 āyāt · 23 tafsīrs
تَبَارَكَ الَّذِي بِيَدِهِ الْمُلْكُ وَهُوَ عَلَىٰ كُلِّ شَيْءٍ قَدِيرٌ
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1. The goodness of Allah who solely possesses the kingdom is great and abundant. He is capable of everything, Nothing is outside His ability.
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s of the obedient, [one] of the obedient folk. In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful: [67:1] Blessed, exalted above the attributes of created beings, is He in Whose hand, at Whose disposal, is [all] sovereignty, [all] authority and power, and He has power over all things.
Open in library →الَّذِي خَلَقَ الْمَوْتَ وَالْحَيَاةَ لِيَبْلُوَكُمْ أَيُّكُمْ أَحْسَنُ عَمَلًا وَهُوَ الْعَزِيزُ الْغَفُورُ
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2. The one who created death and life to test you, O people, which one of you is better in terms of actions. He is the Almighty who no one can overpower; the Forgiving of the sins of whichever of His servants repents to him.
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Whose disposal, is [all] sovereignty, [all] authority and power, and He has power over all things. [67:2] [He] Who created death, in this world, and life, in the Hereafter — or both of them in this world, since the SJ?erm-drop is imbued with life, [life being] that [power] by which sensation becomes possible, death being the opposite of this or the non-exiStence of it — these being two [alternative] opinions; in the case of the latter [life in the Hereafter], ‘creation implies ‘ordainmenf — that He may try you, that He may teSt you in [this] life, [to see] which of you is be it in conduit…
Open in library →الَّذِي خَلَقَ سَبْعَ سَمَاوَاتٍ طِبَاقًا مَّا تَرَىٰ فِي خَلْقِ الرَّحْمَٰنِ مِن تَفَاوُتٍ فَارْجِعِ الْبَصَرَ هَلْ تَرَىٰ مِن فُطُورٍ
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Tafsīr Center for Qur'anic Studies · Contemporary
3. The one who created the seven heavens, each one layered above the one before it without touching it. O observer! You will not witness any discrepancy or misappropriation in the creation of Allah. So look again, do you see cracks or splits? You will never see them; you will only see a perfect, masterful creation.
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al-Maḥallī & al-Suyūṭī · 864–911 AH / 1459–1505 CE
Mighty, in His vengeance againSt those who disobey Him, the Forgiving, to those who repent to Him; [67:3] Who created seven heavens in layers, one above the other without any contact [between them]. You do not see in the Compassionate One’s creation, of these or of other things, any irregularity, any disparity or discordance.…
Open in library →ثُمَّ ارْجِعِ الْبَصَرَ كَرَّتَيْنِ يَنقَلِبْ إِلَيْكَ الْبَصَرُ خَاسِئًا وَهُوَ حَسِيرٌ
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4. Then, look again time after time; your eyesight will return humiliated without having found any defect or fault in the creation of the heaven; exhausted without being able to see.
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وَلَقَدْ زَيَّنَّا السَّمَاءَ الدُّنْيَا بِمَصَابِيحَ وَجَعَلْنَاهَا رُجُومًا لِّلشَّيَاطِينِ وَأَعْتَدْنَا لَهُمْ عَذَابَ السَّعِيرِ
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5. And verily I adorned the nearest sky to the earth with shining stars, making them shoot and repelling with them the satans with them who try to eavesdrop. I have also prepared for them a blazing fire in the afterlife.
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al-Maḥallī & al-Suyūṭī · 864–911 AH / 1459–1505 CE
mbled, abjecft on account of it not perceiving any fissure, and wearied, unable to see any fissure. [67:5] And verily We have adorned the lowest heaven, the one closest to the earth, with lamps, with Stars, and made them missiles again it the devils, should they [attempt to] listen by Stealth, in which case a meteor of fire detaches itself from the Star, juSt like a brand is taken from a fire, and either kills that jinn or deprives him of his senses: it is not that the Star itself is displaced from its position; and We have prepared for them the chastisement of the Blaze, the ignited Fire…
Open in library →وَلِلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا بِرَبِّهِمْ عَذَابُ جَهَنَّمَ وَبِئْسَ الْمَصِيرُ
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6. And for those who disbelieve in their Lord, on the Day of Judgement there is the punishment of a raging fire. Very evil is place they will return to.
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إِذَا أُلْقُوا فِيهَا سَمِعُوا لَهَا شَهِيقًا وَهِيَ تَفُورُ
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Tafsīr Center for Qur'anic Studies · Contemporary
7. When they will be thrown into the hellfire, they will hear an extremely evil sound: it will be bubbling like a boiling pot.
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al-Maḥallī & al-Suyūṭī · 864–911 AH / 1459–1505 CE
sbelieve in their Lord there is the chastisement of Hell, and [what] an evil journey’s end!, it is. [67:7] When they are flung into it they hear it blaring, [producing] a horrid sound like that of an ass, as it seethes, [67:8] almost exploding ( tamayyazu: a variant reading has the original [form] tatamayyazu ) ripped apart, with rage, in wrath againSt the disbelievers. Whenever a hoSt, a group of them, is flung into it, its keepers ask them, an interrogation of rebuke: ‘Did there not come to you a Warner?’, a messenger to warn you of God’s chastisement.
Open in library →تَكَادُ تَمَيَّزُ مِنَ الْغَيْظِ كُلَّمَا أُلْقِيَ فِيهَا فَوْجٌ سَأَلَهُمْ خَزَنَتُهَا أَلَمْ يَأْتِكُمْ نَذِيرٌ
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8. It almost bursts within itself and comes apart due to its extreme rage over those that are thrown into it. Each time a group is thrown into it from the disbelievers, the angels appointed over it will ask them scoldingly: “Did a Messenger not come to you in the world, warning you of the punishment of Allah?”
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قَالُوا بَلَىٰ قَدْ جَاءَنَا نَذِيرٌ فَكَذَّبْنَا وَقُلْنَا مَا نَزَّلَ اللَّهُ مِن شَيْءٍ إِنْ أَنتُمْ إِلَّا فِي ضَلَالٍ كَبِيرٍ
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9. The disbelievers will say, “Indeed! A Messenger did come to us warning us of the punishment of Allah but we rejected him, and we said to him, “Allah did not reveal any revelation. O Messengers! You are in nothing but clear deviance from the truth.””
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al-Maḥallī & al-Suyūṭī · 864–911 AH / 1459–1505 CE
on of rebuke: ‘Did there not come to you a Warner?’, a messenger to warn you of God’s chastisement. [67:9] They will say, ‘Yes, a Warner did indeed come to us, but we denied and said, “God has not re¬ vealed anything; you are assuredly in great error’”: this [laSt words] may be the words of the angels [Spoken] to the disbelievers when they are told of the denial, or they may belong to the words of the disbelievers [Spoken] to the warners. [67:10] And they will say, ‘Had we listened, that is, listening so as to understand, or comprehended, that is, comprehension entailing reflection [upon…
Open in library →وَقَالُوا لَوْ كُنَّا نَسْمَعُ أَوْ نَعْقِلُ مَا كُنَّا فِي أَصْحَابِ السَّعِيرِ
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10. The disbelievers will say, “If we had listened attentively, or had thought clearly like the one who can differentiate the truth from falsehood, we would not have been amongst the people of the hellfire. Rather, we would have had faith in the Messengers and believed in whatever they brought, being from the people of Paradise.”
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فَاعْتَرَفُوا بِذَنبِهِمْ فَسُحْقًا لِّأَصْحَابِ السَّعِيرِ
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11. So they will confess against themselves to having disbelieved and rejected, thereby being worthy of the hellfire. So away with the people of the hellfire!
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al-Maḥallī & al-Suyūṭī · 864–911 AH / 1459–1505 CE
entailing reflection [upon the truth], we would not have been among the inhabitants of the Blaze’. [67:11] Thus they will confess, when confession is of no avail, their sin, which was their denial of the warners. So away (suhqan or suhuqan ) with the inhabitants of the Blaze!, so far away may they be from God’s mercy. [67:12] Assuredly those who fear their Lord in secret, while they are absent from people’s eyes, being obedient to Him in secret, such that openly [before people] it is all the more likely [that they fear their Lord] — there will be for them forgiveness and a great reward,…
Open in library →إِنَّ الَّذِينَ يَخْشَوْنَ رَبَّهُم بِالْغَيْبِ لَهُم مَّغْفِرَةٌ وَأَجْرٌ كَبِيرٌ
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12. After Allah mentions the traits of the disbelievers and their requital, he follows it up with mentioning the qualities of the people of faith and their requital, saying: “Indeed, those who fear Allah in privacy, they will be forgiven for their sins and will get a great reward, i.e. Paradise.”
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وَأَسِرُّوا قَوْلَكُمْ أَوِ اجْهَرُوا بِهِ إِنَّهُ عَلِيمٌ بِذَاتِ الصُّدُورِ
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13. O people! Speak secretively or openly; Allah hears it anyway. Indeed, He may He be glorified is aware of whatever is in the hearts of His servants; nothing is hidden from Him in that regard.
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at they fear their Lord] — there will be for them forgiveness and a great reward, namely, Paradise. [67:13] And [whether you] keep secret, O people, your speech or proclaim it, He indeed, exalted be He, is Knower of what is in the breasts, of what they contain: so how much more so [is He Knower] in the case of what you utter [openly] — the reason for the revelation of this [verse] was that the idolaters said to one another: ‘Speak secretly, and Muhammad’s god will not hear you’. [67:14] Will He Who has created not know?, what you keep secret, in other words: will His knowledge of [things…
Open in library →أَلَا يَعْلَمُ مَنْ خَلَقَ وَهُوَ اللَّطِيفُ الْخَبِيرُ
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14. Does the one who created all creation not know of the secret, and that which is more inconspicuous than the secret? He is The Kind to His servants; The Aware of their affairs. Nothing is hidden from Him in that regard.
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هُوَ الَّذِي جَعَلَ لَكُمُ الْأَرْضَ ذَلُولًا فَامْشُوا فِي مَنَاكِبِهَا وَكُلُوا مِن رِّزْقِهِ وَإِلَيْهِ النُّشُورُ
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15. He is the one who made the earth soft and easy for you to live on, so travel around to its edges and eat from the provision He has prepared for you within it. To Him alone you will be resurrected for accountability and requital.
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al-Maḥallī & al-Suyūṭī · 864–911 AH / 1459–1505 CE
be precluded by such [secret Speech] ? And He is the Subtle, in His knowledge, the Aware, therein. [67:15] It is He Who made the earth tradable for you, easy for you to walk on; so walk in its flanks and eat of His provision, that has been created for you; and to Him is the resurredion, from the graves for the Requital.
Open in library →أَأَمِنتُم مَّن فِي السَّمَاءِ أَن يَخْسِفَ بِكُمُ الْأَرْضَ فَإِذَا هِيَ تَمُورُ
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16. Do you feel safe from the being in the heavens that He may cause the earth to split beneath you, just as He caused it to split beneath Korah, despite it having been soft and easy to live on? It could suddenly shake with you on it, after being firm and solid.
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on, that has been created for you; and to Him is the resurredion, from the graves for the Requital. [67:16] Are you secure (read a-amintum pronouncing both hamzas fully, or by not pronouncing the second one, inserting an alif between it and the other one, or without [the insertion] but replacing it with an alif instead) [ in thinking] that He Who is in the heaven, [that He] Whose authority and power [is in the heaven], will not cause the earth to swallow you (an yakhsifa substitutes for man, ‘He Who’) while it quakes?, [while] it moves underneath you and rises above you?
Open in library →أَمْ أَمِنتُم مَّن فِي السَّمَاءِ أَن يُرْسِلَ عَلَيْكُمْ حَاصِبًا فَسَتَعْلَمُونَ كَيْفَ نَذِيرِ
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17. Or do you feel safe from the being in the heavens that He could rain down stones upon you just like He did upon the people of Lot? Then you will realise, when you see My punishment for yourselves, My warnings to you. But you will never be able to benefit from them after having witnessed the punishment.
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al-Maḥallī & al-Suyūṭī · 864–911 AH / 1459–1505 CE
bstitutes for man, ‘He Who’) while it quakes?, [while] it moves underneath you and rises above you? [67:17] Are you secure [in thinking] that He Who is in the heaven will not unleash (an yursila sub¬ stitutes for man, ‘He Who’) upon you a squall of pebbles?, a wind hurling pebbles at you. But you will [soon] come to know, upon seeing the chastisement with your own eyes, the nature of My warning.…
Open in library →وَلَقَدْ كَذَّبَ الَّذِينَ مِن قَبْلِهِمْ فَكَيْفَ كَانَ نَكِيرِ
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18. Verily, the nations that came before these idolaters rejected, and so the punishment of Allah descended upon them after they insisted in their disbelief and rejection, so how was My disavowal of them? Verily, it was a severe disavowal.
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أَوَلَمْ يَرَوْا إِلَى الطَّيْرِ فَوْقَهُمْ صَافَّاتٍ وَيَقْبِضْنَ مَا يُمْسِكُهُنَّ إِلَّا الرَّحْمَٰنُ إِنَّهُ بِكُلِّ شَيْءٍ بَصِيرٌ
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19. Do these rejectors not see the birds above them flying in rows, side by side with one another? What stops them from falling to the ground, except Allah? Indeed, He is The Seeing of everything, nothing is hidden from Him.
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al-Maḥallī & al-Suyūṭī · 864–911 AH / 1459–1505 CE
how was] My rebuttal of them in destroying them when they denied: in other words, [how] it was true. [67:19] Or have they not seen the birds above them, in the air, spreading their wings and closing?, their wings after Spreading them? (in other words [read wa-yaqbidna ] as wa-qabidatin [similar to saffatin, ‘Spreading’]). Nothingsudains them, from falling, either when they are Spreading them or closing them, except the Compassionate One, by His power. Indeed He is Seer of all things.…
Open in library →أَمَّنْ هَٰذَا الَّذِي هُوَ جُندٌ لَّكُمْ يَنصُرُكُم مِّن دُونِ الرَّحْمَٰنِ إِنِ الْكَافِرُونَ إِلَّا فِي غُرُورٍ
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20. O disbelievers! There is no army that can save you from the punishment of Allah if He decides to punish you. The disbelievers are in nothing but deception; Satan has deceived them and they have fallen into his deception.
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al-Maḥallī & al-Suyūṭī · 864–911 AH / 1459–1505 CE
h them what has been mentioned above as well as [inflidting upon them] other kinds of chastisement? [67:20] Or who (am-man: the subjedt) is it ( hadha: its predicate) that (alladhi: a substitution for hadha, ‘is it’) will be an army, supporters, for you (lakum belongs to the relative clause of alladhi, ‘that’) to help you ( yansurukum is an adjedtival qualification of jundun, ‘an army’) besides the Compassionate One?, that is to say, other than Him, who [is there that] will [be able to] avert His chastisement from you, in other words, you have no helper.…
Open in library →أَمَّنْ هَٰذَا الَّذِي يَرْزُقُكُمْ إِنْ أَمْسَكَ رِزْقَهُ بَل لَّجُّوا فِي عُتُوٍّ وَنُفُورٍ
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Tafsīr Center for Qur'anic Studies · Contemporary
21. And there is no one that can sustain you if Allah stops His provisions from reaching you. Rather, the crux is that the disbelievers have prolonged in transgression, arrogance and refusal of the truth.
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g but delusion: Satan has deluded them [into believing] that the chastisement will not befall them. [67:21] Or who is it that will provide for you if He, the Compassionate One, withholds His provision?, that is to say, [if He withholds] the rain from you (the response to the conditional has been omitted, but is indicated by what preceded it, namely [the Statement to the effedt] ‘who will provide for you?’, and so [the response would be]: you have no provider other than Him. Nay, but they persid in disdain and aversion, moving away [further] from the truth.
Open in library →أَفَمَن يَمْشِي مُكِبًّا عَلَىٰ وَجْهِهِ أَهْدَىٰ أَمَّن يَمْشِي سَوِيًّا عَلَىٰ صِرَاطٍ مُّسْتَقِيمٍ
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Tafsīr Center for Qur'anic Studies · Contemporary
22. So is the one who walks while falling on his face i.e. the idolater more guided, or the believer who walks upright on the straight path?
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al-Maḥallī & al-Suyūṭī · 864–911 AH / 1459–1505 CE
other than Him. Nay, but they persid in disdain and aversion, moving away [further] from the truth. [67:22] Is he who walks cad down, fallen, on his face more rightly guided, or he who walks upright on a draight path? (the predicate of the second man, ‘who’, has been omitted, but is indicated by the predicate of the firSt, namely, ahda, ‘more rightly guided’; the similitude refers to the believer and the disbeliever and to which of the two is more rightly guided). [67:23] Say: ‘It is He Who created you and endowed you with hearing and sight and hearts.…
Open in library →قُلْ هُوَ الَّذِي أَنشَأَكُمْ وَجَعَلَ لَكُمُ السَّمْعَ وَالْأَبْصَارَ وَالْأَفْئِدَةَ قَلِيلًا مَّا تَشْكُرُونَ
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Tafsīr Center for Qur'anic Studies · Contemporary
23. O Messenger! Say to these idolaters who reject: “Allah is the one who created you and made for you ears through which you hear, eyes with which you see, and hearts through which you think. Little do you show gratitude to Him for the blessings He has conferred upon you.
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قُلْ هُوَ الَّذِي ذَرَأَكُمْ فِي الْأَرْضِ وَإِلَيْهِ تُحْشَرُونَ
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24. O Messenger! Say to these idolaters who reject: “Allah is the one who dispersed you on earth and made you spread upon it, not your idols which cannot create anything. To Him alone you will be gathered on the Day of Judgement for accountability and requital, not your idols. So fear Him and worship Him alone.
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al-Maḥallī & al-Suyūṭī · 864–911 AH / 1459–1505 CE
f is a new [independent] one, informing of how extremely little they give thanks for these graces). [67:24] Say: ‘It is He Who multiplied you, created you, on earth, and to Him you will be gathered’, for the Reckoning. [67:25] And they say, to the believers: ‘When will this promise be [fulfilled], the promise of the gather¬ ing, if you are truthful?’, about it. [67:26] Say: ‘The knowledge, of its coming, is only with God, and I am but a plain Warner’, one whose warning is plain.
Open in library →وَيَقُولُونَ مَتَىٰ هَٰذَا الْوَعْدُ إِن كُنتُمْ صَادِقِينَ
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25. And the rejectors of the resurrection, thinking it to be far-fetched, say, “O Muhammad! When will this promise that you and your companions promise us with, happen, if you are truthful in your claim that it will occur?”
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قُلْ إِنَّمَا الْعِلْمُ عِندَ اللَّهِ وَإِنَّمَا أَنَا نَذِيرٌ مُّبِينٌ
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26. Say, O Messenger: “The knowledge of the Hour is with Allah; only He knows when it will occur. I am only a clear warner in my warning to you.”
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فَلَمَّا رَأَوْهُ زُلْفَةً سِيئَتْ وُجُوهُ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا وَقِيلَ هَٰذَا الَّذِي كُنتُم بِهِ تَدَّعُونَ
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Tafsīr Center for Qur'anic Studies · Contemporary
27. So when the promise will come upon them and they will see the punishment close to them on the Day of Judgement, the faces of those who disbelieved in Allah will change and become dark. And it will be said to them, “This is what you used to ask for and want hastily!”
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al-Maḥallī & al-Suyūṭī · 864–911 AH / 1459–1505 CE
owledge, of its coming, is only with God, and I am but a plain Warner’, one whose warning is plain. [67:27] But when they see it, that is, the chastisement, after the gathering, near at hand, the faces of those who disbelieved will be awry, blackened, and it will be said, that is, the keepers [of Hell] will say to them: ‘This is that, chastisement, which, the warning of which, you used to make claims about’, [claims to the effect] that you would not be resurrected — this is the narration of a situation that will take place [in the future], and which has been expressed using the paSt tense…
Open in library →قُلْ أَرَأَيْتُمْ إِنْ أَهْلَكَنِيَ اللَّهُ وَمَن مَّعِيَ أَوْ رَحِمَنَا فَمَن يُجِيرُ الْكَافِرِينَ مِنْ عَذَابٍ أَلِيمٍ
Al-Mukhtasar
Tafsīr Center for Qur'anic Studies · Contemporary
28. O Messenger! Say to these rejecting idolaters, reprimanding them: “Tell me, if Allah was to case death to me and to those with me i.e. the believers, who will save the disbelievers from a painful punishment?” No one will ever save them from it.
Open in library →Tafsir al-Jalalayn
al-Maḥallī & al-Suyūṭī · 864–911 AH / 1459–1505 CE
which has been expressed using the paSt tense in order to confirm that it will actually take place. [67:28] Say: ‘Have you considered: If God destroys me and those with me, ofbelievers, by His chastise¬ ment, as you would have it, or has mercy on us, and does not chaStise us, who then will protect the dis¬ believers from a painful chastisement?’: in other words, they will have no protecftor from it. [67:29] Say: ‘He is the Compassionate One; we believe in Him, and in Him we put our truSt.…
Open in library →قُلْ هُوَ الرَّحْمَٰنُ آمَنَّا بِهِ وَعَلَيْهِ تَوَكَّلْنَا فَسَتَعْلَمُونَ مَنْ هُوَ فِي ضَلَالٍ مُّبِينٍ
Al-Mukhtasar
Tafsīr Center for Qur'anic Studies · Contemporary
29. O Messenger! Say to these idolaters: “He is The Merciful who invites you to worshipping Him alone. We have brought faith in Him, and upon Him alone we rely for our affairs. You will soon know, inevitably, who was in clear deviance and who was on the straight path.”
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قُلْ أَرَأَيْتُمْ إِنْ أَصْبَحَ مَاؤُكُمْ غَوْرًا فَمَن يَأْتِيكُم بِمَاءٍ مَّعِينٍ
Al-Mukhtasar
Tafsīr Center for Qur'anic Studies · Contemporary
30. O Messenger! Say to these idolaters: “Tell me, if the water you drink from was to seep away into the earth and you could not get to it, who then would bring you abundant, flowing water?” No one other than Allah could.
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al-Maḥallī & al-Suyūṭī · 864–911 AH / 1459–1505 CE
ng the chastisement with your own eyes, who is in manifest error’: is it us, or yourselves or them? [67:30] Say: ‘Have you considered: If your water were to sink deep into the earth, who then will bring you running water?’, which hands and buckets would be able to reach, like [they do] your water: in other words, none but God, exalted be He, would be able to bring it, so how can you reject that He will resurrect you? It is commendable for one to say Allahu rabbu’l-’dlamina, ‘God, Lord of the Worlds!’, after main, ‘running water’, as is Stated in a hadith.…
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