Tafsir al-Jalalayn — al-Qamar 54:39
‘So taste now My chastisement and My warnings!’
‘So taste now My chastisement and My warnings!’
And verily We have made the Qur’ān easy to remember. So is there anyone who will remember?
And verily there came to Pharaoh’s folk his people together with him the warnings the warning by the tongue of Moses and Aaron but they did not believe.
Rather They denied Our signs all nine of them which were given to Moses. So We seized them by way of chastisement with the seizing of One Who is Mighty Strong Omnipotent Powerful Whom nothing can thwart.
Are your disbelievers O Quraysh better than those? mentioned beginning from the people of Noah to those of Pharaoh which is why they have not been chastised? Or have you O disbelievers of Quraysh been granted some immunity from chastisement in the Scriptures? the Books? the interrogative in both instances is meant as a denial […]
Or do they the disbelievers of Quraysh say ‘We are a host that will be helped to victory’? against Muhammad (s)? When Abū Jahl on the day of Badr said ‘We are a host that will be helped to victory’ the following was revealed
The host will truly be routed and turn its back to flee and so they were defeated at Badr and God’s Messenger s was granted victory over them.
Nay but the Hour is their tryst for chastisement and the Hour that is the chastisement thereat will be more calamitous greater in affliction and more bitter than the chastisement of this world.
The people of Lot denied the warnings they denied those issues of which they were warned by his Lot’s tongue.
Indeed We unleashed upon them a squall of pebbles a wind hurling at them pebbles namely small stones a single one of these being no larger than the palm of the hand and they were destroyed; all except the family of Lot namely his two daughters together with him whom We delivered at dawn from […]