There that is on that day every soul shall experience tablū derives from balwā ‘a trial’; a variant reading has tatlū ‘it shall recite’ derived from tilāwa ‘recitation’ what it did before what it offered in the way of deeds and they shall be returned to God their rightful their established everlasting Lord and that […]
Say to them ‘Who provides for you rain out of the heaven and plants out of the earth or Who owns hearing meaning the ability to make hear that is the creation of this faculty and sight and Who brings forth the living from the dead and brings forth the dead from the living and […]
He it is Who conveys you yusayyirukum a variant reading has yanshurukum across the land and the sea until when you are in ships and they sail with them there is a shift of address from second to third person with a fair gentle breeze and they rejoice therein there comes upon them a stormy […]
Yet when He has delivered them behold! they are insolent in the earth wrongfully by associating others with God. O mankind your insolence wrongdoing is only against yourselves since the sin thereof shall fall against them; it is but the enjoyment of the life of this world which you will enjoy for a short while […]
The likeness the description of the life of this world is only as water rain which We send down from the heaven then the plants of the earth mingle with it they mingle because of it attaching themselves one to another whereof mankind eat plants such as wheat and barley and so on and cattle […]
And God summons to the Abode of Peace that is the Abode of security which is Paradise by summoning people to faith and He guides whomever He wills that he be guided to a straight path the religion of Islam.
For those who do good by having faith is the fairest reward Paradise and more which is to contemplate God exalted be He as reported in a hadīth by Muslim in his Sahīh; neither dust soot nor ignominy grief shall overcome envelop their faces. Those they are the inhabitants of Paradise therein they will abide.
If misfortune illness or poverty should befall a disbelieving man he calls upon Us on his side that is lying down or sitting or standing in other words in every state; but when We have relieved him of his misfortune he passes on in his unbelief as if ka-an is softened its subject omitted in […]
And indeed We have destroyed generations communities before you O people of Mecca when they did evil by way of idolatry and indeed their messengers brought them clear proofs indicating their truthfulness; but they would not believe wa-mā kānū li-yu’minū this is a supplement to zalamū ‘they did evil’. So just as We destroyed those […]
Then We made you O people of Mecca successors khalā’if is the plural of khalīfa in the earth after them that We might behold how you would behave in it and whether you would take heed from their example and believe in Our messengers.