Al-Qushairi Tafsir — at-Takathur 102:4

But no, you will know. Then but no, you will know. Indeed, you will know. You will see into your own work on the day when knowing and seeing have no profit, when repentance and apology are useless.

Al-Qushairi Tafsir — at-Takathur 102:5

But no. Did you but know with the knowledge of certainty. If you had the knowledge of certainty and the eye of certainty that you must pass over the steep road of death and you must prepare what you need for the journey of the resurrection, then surely your boasting and vying for increase in […]

Al-Qushairi Tafsir — at-Tin 95:4

Surely We created man in the most beautiful stature. Man is Adam. In other words: “I created Adam in the most beautiful form and chose him out from among all the creatures. I wrote the inscription of love on him and made him worthy of My car- pet. I made apparent in his frame the […]

Al-Qushairi Tafsir — al-Alaq 96:19

Prostrate thyself and draw near. The servant has no state in which he is closer to the Exalted Presence and the largesse of mercy than the state of prostration. When the servant puts his head down in prostration, he becomes a banner of light from the top of his head to the furthest ends of […]

Al-Qushairi Tafsir — al-Fajr 89:27

O serene soul, return to thy Lord, approving, approved! Three hundred sixty gazes come from the Holy Dominion and with each gaze the request, “Re- turn!: Is it not yet time to come back to Me and make do with Me? Is it not yet time to be Mine? “O falcon taken to the sky, […]

Al-Qushairi Tafsir — al-Fajr 89:28

O serene soul, return to thy Lord, approving, approved! Three hundred sixty gazes come from the Holy Dominion and with each gaze the request, “Re- turn!: Is it not yet time to come back to Me and make do with Me? Is it not yet time to be Mine? “O falcon taken to the sky, […]

Al-Qushairi Tafsir — ash-Shams 91:7

By the soul and that which proportioned it and inspired it with its depravity and godwariness. The poor Adamite who does not recognize his own exaltedness and eminence! Of this dust-dwell- ing frame he finds his way only to a name, a body, a trace. He does not know what is the secret of And […]

Al-Qushairi Tafsir — ash-Shams 91:8

By the soul and that which proportioned it and inspired it with its depravity and godwariness. The poor Adamite who does not recognize his own exaltedness and eminence! Of this dust-dwell- ing frame he finds his way only to a name, a body, a trace. He does not know what is the secret of And […]