Tafsir al-Jalalayn — an-Najm 53:32

Those who avoid grave sins and abominations excepting lesser offences that is minor sins such as a look a kiss or a touch this constitutes a discontinuous exception in other words the meaning is but lesser offences are forgiven by the avoidance of grave sins. Truly your Lord is of vast forgiveness for such lesser […]

Tafsir al-Jalalayn — an-Najm 53:33

Did you see him who turned away from faith — that is the one who recanted when he was derided for it. He said ‘But I fear the punishment of God!’. But when the one deriding him guaranteed him that he would bear God’s chastisement for him provided that he reverted to his former idolatry […]

Tafsir al-Jalalayn — an-Najm 53:34

and gave a little of the stated sum of money and was then grudging? refrained from giving the remainder akdā derives from al-kudya earth that is hard as rock and which prevents the well-digger from digging through when he hits it.

Tafsir al-Jalalayn — an-Najm 53:35

Does he possess knowledge of the Unseen so that he sees? and therefore from among such knowledge he is able to know that another person may bear the chastisement of the Hereafter for him? No! This was al-Walīd b. al-Mughīra or someone else the sentence beginning with a-‘indahu ‘does he possess’ is the second object […]

Tafsir al-Jalalayn — an-Najm 53:23

These that is the mentioned deities are nothing but names which you have named by which you have named you and your fathers idols that you worship. God has not revealed any warrant any proof or evidence for them that is to say for the worship of them. They follow nothing but conjecture in their […]

Tafsir al-Jalalayn — an-Najm 53:24

Or shall man that is shall every human being among them have whatever he wishes for? such as their wish that the idols intercede for them. No! It is not so.

Tafsir al-Jalalayn — an-Najm 53:25

Yet to God belong the Hereafter and the former life that is to say the life of the world and so nothing comes to pass in them except what He exalted wills.

Tafsir al-Jalalayn — an-Najm 53:26

And how many an angel that is to say many an angel there is in the heavens and how honoured they are in God’s sight but whose intercession cannot avail in any way except after God gives permission to them for this intercession for whomever He wills of His servants and with whom He is […]