Tafsir al-Jalalayn at-Takathur التَّكَاثُر (Rivalry in World Increase, Competition, Worldly Gain) 8 verses · Meccan

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بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ
In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
أَلْهَاكُمُ التَّكَاثُرُ
Abdel Haleem
Striving for more distracts yo
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

Rivalry in worldly things mutual vainglory about wealth children and men distracts you preoccupies you diverting you from obedience to God

حَتَّىٰ زُرْتُمُ الْمَقَابِرَ
Abdel Haleem
until you go into your graves
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

until you visit the graves either in that you have died and then been buried in them or it means to the extent that you actually count the dead as a something to rival one another by.

كَلَّا سَوْفَ تَعْلَمُونَ
Abdel Haleem
No indeed! You will come to know
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

No indeed! — a disavowal. You will come to know!

ثُمَّ كَلَّا سَوْفَ تَعْلَمُونَ
Abdel Haleem
No indeed! In the end you will come to know
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

Again no indeed! You will come to know the evil consequences of your mutual vainglory at the moment of the extraction of the soul then you will come to know in the grave.

كَلَّا لَوْ تَعْلَمُونَ عِلْمَ الْيَقِينِ
Abdel Haleem
No indeed! If only you knew for certain
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

No indeed! — verily — Were you to know with certain knowledge the consequences of your vainglory you would not preoccupy yourselves with it for

لَتَرَوُنَّ الْجَحِيمَ
Abdel Haleem
You will most definitely see Hellfire
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

you would surely see hell-fire the Fire la-tarawunna’l-jahīma this is the response to an omitted oath; the third consonant of the root of the verb r-’-y together with the second have been omitted and its vowel has been transposed onto the rā’.

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ثُمَّ لَتَرَوُنَّهَا عَيْنَ الْيَقِينِ
Abdel Haleem
you will see it with the eye of certainty
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

Again you will surely see it — repeated for emphasis — with the eye of certainty ‘ayna is a verbal noun as both ra’ā and ‘āyana have the same meaning.

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ثُمَّ لَتُسْأَلُنَّ يَوْمَئِذٍ عَنِ النَّعِيمِ
Abdel Haleem
On that Day, you will be asked about your pleasures
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

Then on that day the day you see it you will assuredly be questioned la-tus’alunna the nūn of the indicative has been omitted because of one nūn coming after the other; likewise omitted is the wāw indicating the plural person of the verb because of two unvocalised consonants coming together about the comforts of the world the health leisure security food drink and other things which one enjoys in this world.

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