Ash-Shams
الشمس15 āyāt · 22 tafsīrs
وَالشَّمْسِ وَضُحَاهَا
Al-Mukhtasar
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1. Allah takes an oath on the sun and its rising after breaking onto the eastern horizon.
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وَالْقَمَرِ إِذَا تَلَاهَا
Al-Mukhtasar
Tafsīr Center for Qur'anic Studies · Contemporary
2. He also takes an oath on the moon when it follows the sun after it has set.
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وَالنَّهَارِ إِذَا جَلَّاهَا
Al-Mukhtasar
Tafsīr Center for Qur'anic Studies · Contemporary
3. Allah also takes an oath on the day when it reveals whatever is on the face of the earth through its light.
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وَاللَّيْلِ إِذَا يَغْشَاهَا
Al-Mukhtasar
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4. And He also takes an oath on the night when it covers the face of the earth, darkening it.
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وَالسَّمَاءِ وَمَا بَنَاهَا
Al-Mukhtasar
Tafsīr Center for Qur'anic Studies · Contemporary
5. And He takes an oath on the sky, taking an oath on its perfect creation.
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وَالْأَرْضِ وَمَا طَحَاهَا
Al-Mukhtasar
Tafsīr Center for Qur'anic Studies · Contemporary
6. He also takes an oath on the earth: the way it has been spread so that people can live on it.
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al-Maḥallī & al-Suyūṭī · 864–911 AH / 1459–1505 CE
eaven and the One Who built it, [91:6] and [by] the earth and the One Who spread it, laid out flat. [91:7] and [by] the soul, that is to say, [by] all souls, and the One Who proportioned it, in its created form (ma in all three instances relates to the verbal adtion, or fundtions as man, ‘the one who’), [91:8] and inspired to discern its vices and piety.…
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Al-Mukhtasar
Tafsīr Center for Qur'anic Studies · Contemporary
7. He also takes an oath on each soul, with Allah having created it equally.
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فَأَلْهَمَهَا فُجُورَهَا وَتَقْوَاهَا
Al-Mukhtasar
Tafsīr Center for Qur'anic Studies · Contemporary
8. Then He made it understand - without teaching it - what was evil so it could be abstained from, and what was good so it could be implemented.
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قَدْ أَفْلَحَ مَن زَكَّاهَا
Al-Mukhtasar
Tafsīr Center for Qur'anic Studies · Contemporary
9. Verily, the one who has purified his soul by adorning it with virtuous characteristics and freeing it from evil traits, has succeeded.
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وَقَدْ خَابَ مَن دَسَّاهَا
Al-Mukhtasar
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10. And verily the one who has secretly thrust his soul into sins and disobedience, has lost.
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al-Maḥallī & al-Suyūṭī · 864–911 AH / 1459–1505 CE
s been omitted from it for the sake of brevity) will be the one who purifies it, purges it of sins, [91:10] and he will indeed have failed he who eclipses it, he who obscures it with [adts of] disobedience (dassaha is adtually dassasaha, but the second sin has been replaced with an alif for [phonetic] ease). [91:11] Thamud denied, their messenger Salih, because of their rebellious nature, [91:12] when the moSt wretched of them, whose name was Qudar, was dispatched, [when] he hastened, in order to hamstring the she-camel with their approval. [91:13] But then the messenger of God, Salih, s…
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Al-Mukhtasar
Tafsīr Center for Qur'anic Studies · Contemporary
11. After Allah mentions the loss of the one who thrust his soul secretly into sins, He mentions the Thamūd as an example of that, saying: The Thamūd rejected their Prophet Saleh due to their transgressing the limits in committing sins and disobedience.
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إِذِ انبَعَثَ أَشْقَاهَا
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12. When the most wretched among them stood up after his people has appointed him for the task.
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فَقَالَ لَهُمْ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ نَاقَةَ اللَّهِ وَسُقْيَاهَا
Al-Mukhtasar
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13. The Messenger of Allah Saleh (peace be upon him) said to them: “Leave the camel of Allah alone; let it drink on its day and do not pursue it intending evil.”
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فَكَذَّبُوهُ فَعَقَرُوهَا فَدَمْدَمَ عَلَيْهِمْ رَبُّهُم بِذَنبِهِمْ فَسَوَّاهَا
Al-Mukhtasar
Tafsīr Center for Qur'anic Studies · Contemporary
14. But they rejected their Messenger with regards to the camel, and so the most wretched among them killed it with the consent of his people. Therefore, they were all guilty of the crime and so Allah enveloped them into His punishment and destroyed them by a shriek due to their sins. He made them equal in the punishment that He destroyed them with.
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al-Maḥallī & al-Suyūṭī · 864–911 AH / 1459–1505 CE
amel of God, so let her have her drink!’, her drink on her day — one day was hers, the next theirs. [91:14] But they denied him, with regard to his saying this [as being a command] from God — which if they contravened would immediately result in chastisement being sent down on them — then ham¬ strung her, they slew it in order to appropriate her [share of the] drinking water.…
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Al-Mukhtasar
Tafsīr Center for Qur'anic Studies · Contemporary
15. Allah set the punishment that destroyed them, upon them, without Him, may He be glorified, fearing any reproach over His actions.
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