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البروج22 āyāt · 22 tafsīrs
وَالسَّمَاءِ ذَاتِ الْبُرُوجِ
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1. Allah took an oath by the sky that contains the phases of the sun, moon etc.
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al-Maḥallī & al-Suyūṭī · 864–911 AH / 1459–1505 CE
n to them in expectance of anything in return. In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful: [85:1] By the heaven of the constellations, the twelve constellations of the planets — as explained in [surat] al-Furqan [Q. 25:61]; [85:2] and [by] the promised day, the Day of Resurrection; [85:3] and [by] the witness, Friday, and the witnessed, the day of‘Arafa — that is how these three [ele¬ ments] have been explained in hadith.…
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Al-Mukhtasar
Tafsīr Center for Qur'anic Studies · Contemporary
2. He took an oath by the day of judgment in which He promised to gather all creation.
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وَشَاهِدٍ وَمَشْهُودٍ
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3. He took an oath by every witness, like the prophet who is a witness over his nation, and every thing witnessed, like the nation that is a witness over its prophet.
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قُتِلَ أَصْحَابُ الْأُخْدُودِ
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4. Those who made a huge crevice in the ground are cursed.
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oath has been omitted, but is implied to be laqad, ‘verily’, [sc. laqad qutila ashabu’l-ukhdud ]): [85:4] perish, accursed be, the men of the ditch!, the pit in the ground, [85:5] of the fire ( al-nari is an inclusive substitution of it [al-ukhdudi, ‘of the ditch’]), abounding in fuel, by which it was fuelled, [85:6] when they sat by it, around the edge of the ditch on chairs,
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5. In which they lit a fire and threw the believers into it alive.
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إِذْ هُمْ عَلَيْهَا قُعُودٌ
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Tafsīr Center for Qur'anic Studies · Contemporary
6. While they sat around that crevice filled with fire.
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fuel, by which it was fuelled, [85:6] when they sat by it, around the edge of the ditch on chairs, [85:7] and they themselves, to what they did to those who believed, in God, in the way of torturing them by hurling [them] into the fire when they did not recant their faith, were witnesses, [they were them¬ selves] present [thereat].…
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7. They were witnesses to the torture and ill-treatment they meted out to the believers, as they were present there.
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وَمَا نَقَمُوا مِنْهُمْ إِلَّا أَن يُؤْمِنُوا بِاللَّهِ الْعَزِيزِ الْحَمِيدِ
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8. These disbelievers found no fault in the believers except that they had faith in Allah, the Mighty, Whom none can overpower, the One Praised in everything.
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الَّذِي لَهُ مُلْكُ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضِ وَاللَّهُ عَلَىٰ كُلِّ شَيْءٍ شَهِيدٌ
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9. The One to Whom alone belongs control of the heavens and control of the earth. He is aware of everything. No affair of His servants is hidden from Him.
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vindicative towards them of was that they believed in God, the Mighty, in His kingdom, the Praised, [85:9] to Whom belongs the kingdom of the heavens and the earth, and God is Witness to all things, in other words, all that the disbelievers disavowed of the believers was their faith. [85:10] Indeed those who persecute believing men and believing women, by having them burnt, then do not repent, there will be for them the chastisement of Hell, [in return] for their disbelief, and there will [also] be for them the chastisement of burning, that is to say, the chastisement for their having had…
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Al-Mukhtasar
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10. Those who tortured the believing men and women with the fire in order to turn them away from having faith in Allah alone, and then did not repent to Allah from their sins, for them on the day of judgment is the punishment of Hell and for them is the punishment of the Fire that will burn them, as a recompense for their burning the believers in the fire.
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إِنَّ الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا وَعَمِلُوا الصَّالِحَاتِ لَهُمْ جَنَّاتٌ تَجْرِي مِن تَحْتِهَا الْأَنْهَارُ ذَٰلِكَ الْفَوْزُ الْكَبِيرُ
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11. Those who have faith in Allah and do good deeds, for them will be gardens under whose palaces and trees rivers flow. That reward, which is prepared for them, is the supreme success that no other success comes close to.
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hastisement for them] in this world, as when the fire rose up and burnt them, as [mentioned] above. [85:11] Indeed those who believe and perform righteous deeds, for them there will be gardens under¬ neath which rivers flow: that is the supreme triumph. [85:12] Assuredly your Lord’s assaidt, againSt the disbelievers, is severe, [as severe] as He will [it to be]. [85:13] Assuredly it is He Who originates, creation, and restores, and is never thwarted in what He wills, [85:14] and He is the Forgiving, to sinning believers, the Loving, the One Who shows love to His friends through [His acft…
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12. The seizure of your Lord, O Messenger, of the wrongdoer - even if He gives his respite for a while - is forceful.
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إِنَّهُ هُوَ يُبْدِئُ وَيُعِيدُ
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13. He begins the creation and the punishment and repeats them.
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وَهُوَ الْغَفُورُ الْوَدُودُ
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14. He is Forgiving of the sins of His servants who repent and He loves His allies who are Mindful.
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ذُو الْعَرْشِ الْمَجِيدُ
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15. Possessor of the Noble Throne.
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فَعَّالٌ لِّمَا يُرِيدُ
Al-Mukhtasar
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16. Doer of the what He wills such as pardoning the sins of whoever He wills and punishing whoever He wills. There is none that can compel Him, may He be glorified.
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the Glorious (read nominative al-majidu), the One deserving of the perfect attributes of sublimity, [85:16] Doer of what He desires, nothing able to thwart Him. [85:17] Have you, O Muhammad (s), received the ftory of the hofts, [85:18] Pharaoh and Thamud? (Fir’awna wa-Thamuda substitutes for al-junudi ) — the mention of ‘Pharaoh’ suffices to also include his followers; their ‘Story’ is that they were destroyed for their disbelief, and this is meant as a warning for those who deny the Prophet (s) and the Qur’an, that they may be admonished [thereby]. [85:19] Nay, but the disbelievers are…
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17. Has the news of the forces who enlisted to combat and be an obstacle to the truth reached you, O Messenger?!
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فِرْعَوْنَ وَثَمُودَ
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18. Pharaoh, and the Thamud, the people of Salih (peace be upon him).
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بَلِ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا فِي تَكْذِيبٍ
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19. The obstacle to the faith of these people is not that the incidents of the destruction of the nations who denied did not come to them. Instead, they deny what their messengers brought to them due to following desires.
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وَاللَّهُ مِن وَرَائِهِم مُّحِيطٌ
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20. Allah surrounds and keeps a record of their actions. Nothing of that misses him and He will give them the recompense for the same.
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بَلْ هُوَ قُرْآنٌ مَّجِيدٌ
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21. The Qur’ān is neither poetry nor rhyme as the deniers claim. Instead, it is a noble Qur’ān.
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ng — they have no protecftor againSt Him. [85:21] Nay, but it is a glorious, a magnificent, Qur’an, [85:22] in a tablet, suspended above the seventh heaven,preserved (read mahfuzin), from all devils and from having any of its contents altered; it is a high as the distance between the earth and the heaven, and as wide as the distance between the eaSt and the weSt, made of white pearls — as Stated by Ibn ‘Abbas, may God be pleased with both [him and his father, ‘Abbas]. In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful: [86:1] By the heaven and the night-visitor! ( al-tdriq actually deno…
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22. In a tablet that is protected against alteration and distortion, and decrease and increase.
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