Tafsir al-Jalalayn — ar-Ra’d 13:11

For him for man are attendants angels who follow him to his front and to his rear guarding him through God’s command that is by His command from the danger of the jinn and others. Indeed God does not alter the state of a people — He does not deprive them of His grace — […]

Tafsir al-Jalalayn — ar-Ra’d 13:12

He it is Who shows you the lightning inspiring fear in travellers of thunderbolts and hope for those who are at home of rain; and He produces He creates the clouds that are heavy with rain.

Tafsir al-Jalalayn — ar-Ra’d 13:13

And the thunder — this is an angel who is in charge of the clouds driving them while he constantly proclaims His praise that is he says ‘Glory be to God through His praise’ subhāna’Llāh wa-bi-hamdihi and so too the angels proclaim His praise in awe of Him that is of God. He unleashes the […]

Tafsir al-Jalalayn — ar-Ra’d 13:1

Alif lām mīm rā’ God knows best what He means by these letters. Those these verses are the verses of the Book the Qur’ān the genitive annexation carries the meaning of partitive min ‘from’ and that which has been revealed to you from your Lord namely the Qur’ān this preceding sentence constitutes the subject the […]

Tafsir al-Jalalayn — ar-Ra’d 13:2

God is He Who raised up the heavens without visible supports ‘amad is the plural of ‘imād which is the same as an ustuwāna ‘a column’; and this statement is true since there are no actual supports then presided upon the Throne a presiding befitting Him and disposed made subservient the sun and the moon […]

Tafsir al-Jalalayn — ar-Ra’d 13:3

And He it is Who spread out extended flat the earth and set created therein firm mountains and rivers and of every fruit He has made in it two kinds of every species. He covers He cloaks the night and its darkness with the day. Surely in that which is mentioned are signs indications of […]

Kashani Tafsir — ar-Ra’d 13:39

He effaces whatsoever He will, and He affirms. Know that the highway of the Real’s religion is three things: submission, the Sunnah, and self- purification. In submission be fearful, in the Sunnah be hopeful, and in self-purification be a lover. Submission has no escape from fear, the Sunnah must have hope, and self-purification is nothing […]

Kashani Tafsir — ar-Ra’d 13:41

Or is it that they have not seen how We visit the land, We seek out the land of the body at the moment of old age, diminishing it at its edgesḍ, by the [gradual] wearing away of its organs, the failure of its faculties and the weakening of its senses bit by bit until […]

Kashani Tafsir — ar-Ra’d 13:38

For every term there is a Book: for every time there is an affair that is prescribed and predetermined or ordained in that moment for creatures. Subsequently, divine precepts are designated by God in accordance with [specific] moments. For every moment there comes from Him a messenger bearing what is good for that [particular] time. […]

Kashani Tafsir — ar-Ra’d 13:16

Say: ‘Then have you taken beside Him, that is, anything other than Him, whoever it be, protectors, who have no power to benefit or harm themselvesḍ’, for the Powerful and the Owner is God and none other.