Tafsir Source: Kashani Tafsir

Kashani 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 […]

Kashani Tafsir — al-Bayyinah 98:5

They were commanded only to worship God, purifying the religion for Him as unswerv- ing ones, and to perform the prayer and pay the alms tax; that is the enduring religion. In this verse God commands the servants to worship and to have self-purification in worship. Self-purification in worship does the work of color in […]

Kashani Tafsir — al-Bayyinah 98:6

They were commanded only to worship God, purifying the religion for Him as unswerv- ing ones, and to perform the prayer and pay the alms tax; that is the enduring religion. In this verse God commands the servants to worship and to have self-purification in worship. Self-purification in worship does the work of color in […]

Kashani Tafsir — at-Takathur 102:1

Vying for increase distracts you. This is an address of admonishment and assertion. He is saying, “O child of Adam! Why do you boast of relationships that will soon be severed? Why do you vainly lift your heads over your many relatives, your property, and your position? Why are you deluded by the fact that […]

Kashani Tafsir — at-Takathur 102:3

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.

Kashani Tafsir — at-Tin 95:3

By the fig, by the olive, by Mount Sinai, and by this secure land! At the beginning of this surah, God swears an oath by four created things in order to introduce this:

Kashani 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, […]

Kashani 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, […]

Kashani 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 […]