and the dwellers in the wood a small forest — the people of Shu‘ayb — and the people of Tubba‘ — a king who ruled in Yemen; he had submitted to God and had summoned his people to the same submission to God but they denied him. Each of those mentioned denied the messengers as […]
Were We then wearied by the first creation? that is to say We were not wearied by it and likewise We will not be wearied by restoring it. Nay yet they are in doubt about a new creation which will be at the Resurrection.
And verily We created man and We know wa-na‘lamu is a circumstantial qualifier with an implicit preceding nahnu what mā relates to the verbal action his soul whispers to him what it speaks to him the bi- of bihi ‘him’ is extra or it is required for the intransitive verb to become transitive and take […]
When idh is dependent because of an implied udhkur ‘mention’ the two Receivers the two angels charged with recording a person’s deeds receive when they observe and record seated that is while both of them are sitting qa‘īdun ‘seated’ is the subject the predicate of which is the preceding clause on the right and on […]
he does not utter a word but that there is beside him a watcher a guardian who is ready present both raqībun ‘watcher’ and ‘atīdun ‘ready’ are meant to indicate the dual.
And the agony of death its throes and distress arrives with the truth of the Hereafter such that the one who denied it sees it with his own eyes — and this is the distress itself. That namely death is what you used to shun what you used to flee from and be terrified by.
We know what the earth diminishes consumes of them and with Us is a preserving Book namely the Preserved Tablet al-lawh al-mahfūz which contains everything that has been ordained by God.
Nay but they denied the truth the Qur’ān when it came to them and so they with regard to the Prophet s and the Qur’ān are now in a confounded situation a troubled one. For on one occasion they said that he was ‘A sorcerer!’ cf. Q. 384 and that his statements were ‘Nothing but […]
Have they not then looked with their own eyes at the heaven being above them in order to take heed by their own minds of the consequences for them when they deny the Resurrection how We have built it without supports and adorned it with planets and how there are no cracks in it? no […]
And the earth wa’l-arda is a supplement to the position of the words ilā l-samā’i ‘at the heaven’ how We have spread it out how We have rolled it across the face of the water and cast in it firm mountains to fix it in place and caused every delightful kind every delightful specimen causing […]