Tafsir al-Jalalayn

Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti — b. 791 AH / 1389 CE · d. 911 AH / 1505 CE Sunni Shafi'i

Tafsir al-Jalalayn as-Sajdah السَّجْدَة (The Prostration, Worship, Adoration, The Adoration) 30 verses · Meccan

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بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ
In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
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الۤمۤ ۝١
Abdel Haleem
Alif Lam Mi
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

Alif lām mīm God knows best what He means by these letters.

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تَنزِیلُ ٱلۡكِتَـٰبِ لَا رَیۡبَ فِیهِ مِن رَّبِّ ٱلۡعَـٰلَمِینَ ۝٢
Abdel Haleem
This scripture, free from all doubt, has been sent down from the Lord of the Worlds
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

The revelation of the Book the Qur’ān tanzīlu’l-kitābi the subject whereof there is no doubt lā rayba fīh the first predicate from the Lord of the Worlds min rabbi’l-‘ālamīna the second predicate.

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أَمۡ یَقُولُونَ ٱفۡتَرَىٰهُۚ بَلۡ هُوَ ٱلۡحَقُّ مِن رَّبِّكَ لِتُنذِرَ قَوۡمࣰا مَّاۤ أَتَىٰهُم مِّن نَّذِیرࣲ مِّن قَبۡلِكَ لَعَلَّهُمۡ یَهۡتَدُونَ ۝٣
Abdel Haleem
Yet they say, ‘Muhammad has made it up.’ No indeed! It is the Truth from your Lord for you [Prophet], to warn a people who have had no one to warn them before, so that they may be guided
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

Or do they say ‘He Muhammad (s) has invented it’? Nay but it is the truth from your Lord that you may warn thereby a people to whom no warner came before you mā is for negation that perhaps they may find right guidance by your warning.

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ٱللَّهُ ٱلَّذِی خَلَقَ ٱلسَّمَـٰوَ ٰتِ وَٱلۡأَرۡضَ وَمَا بَیۡنَهُمَا فِی سِتَّةِ أَیَّامࣲ ثُمَّ ٱسۡتَوَىٰ عَلَى ٱلۡعَرۡشِۖ مَا لَكُم مِّن دُونِهِۦ مِن وَلِیࣲّ وَلَا شَفِیعٍۚ أَفَلَا تَتَذَكَّرُونَ ۝٤
Abdel Haleem
It is God who created the heavens and the earth and everything between them in six Days. Then He established Himself on the Throne. You [people] have no one but Him to protect you and no one to intercede for you, so why do you not take heed
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

God is He Who created the heavens and the earth and whatever is between them in six days the first of which was Sunday and the last of which was Friday then He presided upon the Throne al-‘arsh in the classical Arabic idiom denotes the seat of a king a presiding worthy of Him. You do not have O disbelievers of Mecca besides Him in other words other than Him any protector min waliyyin is the subject of the particle mā with the min added extra in other words any helper or intercessor to ward off His chastisement from you. Will you not then remember? this and become believers.

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یُدَبِّرُ ٱلۡأَمۡرَ مِنَ ٱلسَّمَاۤءِ إِلَى ٱلۡأَرۡضِ ثُمَّ یَعۡرُجُ إِلَیۡهِ فِی یَوۡمࣲ كَانَ مِقۡدَارُهُۥۤ أَلۡفَ سَنَةࣲ مِّمَّا تَعُدُّونَ ۝٥
Abdel Haleem
He runs everything, from the heavens to the earth, and everything will ascend to Him in the end, on a Day that will measure a thousand years in your reckoning
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

He directs the command from the heaven to the earth for the duration of this world then it ascends then the command and the direction thereof returns to Him in a day whose measure is a thousand years by your reckoning in this world. In sūrat sa’ala An asker asked the measure is said to be ‘fifty thousand years’ Q. 704 — and this day is the Day of Resurrection reckoned so because of the severity of its terrors for the disbeliever. As for the believer however for him it will be easier than performing any one of his obligatory prayers in this world — as is stated in hadīth.

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ذَ ٰلِكَ عَـٰلِمُ ٱلۡغَیۡبِ وَٱلشَّهَـٰدَةِ ٱلۡعَزِیزُ ٱلرَّحِیمُ ۝٦
Abdel Haleem
Such is He who knows all that is unseen as well as what is seen, the Almighty, the Merciful
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

That Creator and Director is the Knower of the Unseen and the visible that is what is hidden from creatures and what is present before them the Mighty the Invincible in His kingdom the Merciful to those who are obedient to Him

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ٱلَّذِیۤ أَحۡسَنَ كُلَّ شَیۡءٍ خَلَقَهُۥۖ وَبَدَأَ خَلۡقَ ٱلۡإِنسَـٰنِ مِن طِینࣲ ۝٧
Abdel Haleem
who gave everything its perfect form. He first created man from clay
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

Who perfected everything that He created read khalaqahu as a past tense functioning as an adjectival qualification of what He perfected; or khalqahu ‘its creation’ as an inclusive substitution for kulla shay’in ‘everything’. And He began the creation of man Adam from clay

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ثُمَّ جَعَلَ نَسۡلَهُۥ مِن سُلَـٰلَةࣲ مِّن مَّاۤءࣲ مَّهِینࣲ ۝٨
Abdel Haleem
then made his descendants from an extract of underrated fluid
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

then He made his progeny his offspring from an extract a blood clot of a base delicate fluid namely the sperm-drop;

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ثُمَّ سَوَّىٰهُ وَنَفَخَ فِیهِ مِن رُّوحِهِۦۖ وَجَعَلَ لَكُمُ ٱلسَّمۡعَ وَٱلۡأَبۡصَـٰرَ وَٱلۡأَفۡءِدَةَۚ قَلِیلࣰا مَّا تَشۡكُرُونَ ۝٩
Abdel Haleem
Then He moulded him; He breathed from His Spirit into him; He gave you hearing, sight, and minds. How seldom you are grateful
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

then He proportioned him that is to say He created Adam and breathed into him of His spirit in other words He made him a living sensory being after having been an inanimate thing. And He made for you in other words for you his descendants hearing meaning ears and sight and hearts. Little thanks do you give mā here is extra emphasising the ‘littleness’ of the thanks.

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وَقَالُوۤا۟ أَءِذَا ضَلَلۡنَا فِی ٱلۡأَرۡضِ أَءِنَّا لَفِی خَلۡقࣲ جَدِیدِۭۚ بَلۡ هُم بِلِقَاۤءِ رَبِّهِمۡ كَـٰفِرُونَ ۝١٠
Abdel Haleem
They say, ‘What? When we have disappeared into the earth, shall we really be created anew?’ In fact, they deny the meeting with their Lord
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

And they namely the deniers of resurrection say ‘When we are lost beneath the earth when we have gone thereunder having become dust mixed with its dust shall we be indeed created anew?’ an interrogative of denial; read a-innā by pronouncing both hamzas or by not pronouncing the second one and inserting an alif between them either way in both places. God exalted be He says Nay but they disbelieve in the encounter with their Lord through resurrection.

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۞ قُلۡ یَتَوَفَّىٰكُم مَّلَكُ ٱلۡمَوۡتِ ٱلَّذِی وُكِّلَ بِكُمۡ ثُمَّ إِلَىٰ رَبِّكُمۡ تُرۡجَعُونَ ۝١١
Abdel Haleem
Say, ‘The Angel of Death put in charge of you will reclaim you, and then you will be brought back to your Lord.’
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

Say to them ‘The Angel of death who has been charged with you shall receive you in death in other words he shall seize your spirits then to your Lord you shall be returned’ alive whereat He will requite you for your deeds.

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وَلَوۡ تَرَىٰۤ إِذِ ٱلۡمُجۡرِمُونَ نَاكِسُوا۟ رُءُوسِهِمۡ عِندَ رَبِّهِمۡ رَبَّنَاۤ أَبۡصَرۡنَا وَسَمِعۡنَا فَٱرۡجِعۡنَا نَعۡمَلۡ صَـٰلِحًا إِنَّا مُوقِنُونَ ۝١٢
Abdel Haleem
[Prophet], if only you could see the wrongdoers hang their heads before their Lord: ‘Our Lord, now that we have seen and heard, send us back and we shall do good. [Now] we are convinced.’
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

And if could you but see the guilty the disbelievers hanging their heads low before their Lord lowering them in shame saying ‘Our Lord! We have seen the resurrection that we denied and heard from You the confirmation of the truth of the messengers concerning that in which we used to call them liars. So send us back to the world so that we may act righteously therein for indeed we are convinced’ now. But none of this is of any use to them and they will not be sent back the response to the conditional clause beginning with law ‘if’ is an implicit ‘you would see a terrible thing’.

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32:13 ›
وَلَوۡ شِئۡنَا لَءَاتَیۡنَا كُلَّ نَفۡسٍ هُدَىٰهَا وَلَـٰكِنۡ حَقَّ ٱلۡقَوۡلُ مِنِّی لَأَمۡلَأَنَّ جَهَنَّمَ مِنَ ٱلۡجِنَّةِ وَٱلنَّاسِ أَجۡمَعِینَ ۝١٣
Abdel Haleem
‘If it had been Our will, We could certainly have given every soul its true guidance, but My words have come true. “I shall be sure to fill Hell with jinn and men together.”
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

God exalted be He says ‘And had We so willed We could have given every soul its means to guidance so that it may be guided through faith and obedience through its own choice but My Word became due and it is that “Verily I shall fill Hell with jinn and mankind together”.

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فَذُوقُوا۟ بِمَا نَسِیتُمۡ لِقَاۤءَ یَوۡمِكُمۡ هَـٰذَاۤ إِنَّا نَسِینَـٰكُمۡۖ وَذُوقُوا۟ عَذَابَ ٱلۡخُلۡدِ بِمَا كُنتُمۡ تَعۡمَلُونَ ۝١٤
Abdel Haleem
So since you ignored the meeting on this Day of yours, now We shall ignore you: taste the lasting suffering for all you have done.’
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

When they enter Hell its Keepers shall say to them So taste now the chastisement for your having forgotten the encounter of this day of yours in other words for your having neglected to believe in it. We too shall forget you we shall abandon you in the chastisement. And taste now the everlasting chastisement for what you used to practise’ of disbelief and denial.

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إِنَّمَا یُؤۡمِنُ بِءَایَـٰتِنَا ٱلَّذِینَ إِذَا ذُكِّرُوا۟ بِهَا خَ̅رُّ̅و̅ا۟̅ ̅سُ̅جَّ̅دࣰ̅ا̅ وَسَبَّحُوا۟ بِحَمۡدِ رَبِّهِمۡ وَهُمۡ لَا یَسۡتَكۡبِرُونَ ۝١٥ ۩
Abdel Haleem
The only people who truly believe in Our messages are those who, when they are reminded of them, bow down in worship, cele-brate their Lord’s praises, and do not think themselves above this
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

Only those believe in Our signs such as the Qur’ān who when they are reminded of them admonished with them fall down in prostration and make glorifications ensconced in praise of their Lord in other words they say ‘Glory be to God through His praise’ subhāna’Llāh wa-bi-hāmdihi and they do not disdain to believe and to obey.

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تَتَجَافَىٰ جُنُوبُهُمۡ عَنِ ٱلۡمَضَاجِعِ یَدۡعُونَ رَبَّهُمۡ خَوۡفࣰا وَطَمَعࣰا وَمِمَّا رَزَقۡنَـٰهُمۡ یُنفِقُونَ ۝١٦
Abdel Haleem
Their sides shun their beds in order to pray to their Lord in fear and hope; they give to others some of what We have given them
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

Their sides withdraw they rise from their lying places the places for lying down to sleep together with the bedding in order to spend the night in prayer tahajjud to supplicate to their Lord in fear of His punishment and in hope of His mercy and they expend of what We have provided them they give voluntary alms.

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فَلَا تَعۡلَمُ نَفۡسࣱ مَّاۤ أُخۡفِیَ لَهُم مِّن قُرَّةِ أَعۡیُنࣲ جَزَاۤءَۢ بِمَا كَانُوا۟ یَعۡمَلُونَ ۝١٧
Abdel Haleem
No soul knows what joy is kept hidden in store for them as a reward for what they have done
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

For no soul knows what has been kept hidden for them in the way of joyous sights a variant reading for ukhfiya has the imperfect tense ukhfī as a reward for what they used to do.

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أَفَمَن كَانَ مُؤۡمِنࣰا كَمَن كَانَ فَاسِقࣰاۚ لَّا یَسۡتَوُۥنَ ۝١٨
Abdel Haleem
So, is someone who believes equal to someone who defies God? No, they are not equal
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

Is he who is a believer like him who is a transgressor? They are not equal namely the believers and the transgressors.

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32:19 ›
أَمَّا ٱلَّذِینَ ءَامَنُوا۟ وَعَمِلُوا۟ ٱلصَّـٰلِحَـٰتِ فَلَهُمۡ جَنَّـٰتُ ٱلۡمَأۡوَىٰ نُزُلَۢا بِمَا كَانُوا۟ یَعۡمَلُونَ ۝١٩
Abdel Haleem
Those who believe and do good deeds will have Gardens awaiting them as their home and as a reward for what they have done
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

As for those who believe and perform righteous deeds for them shall be the Gardens of the Abode — a hospitality nuzul is what is prepared for a guest for what they used to do.

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32:20 ›
وَأَمَّا ٱلَّذِینَ فَسَقُوا۟ فَمَأۡوَىٰهُمُ ٱلنَّارُۖ كُلَّمَاۤ أَرَادُوۤا۟ أَن یَخۡرُجُوا۟ مِنۡهَاۤ أُعِیدُوا۟ فِیهَا وَقِیلَ لَهُمۡ ذُوقُوا۟ عَذَابَ ٱلنَّارِ ٱلَّذِی كُنتُم بِهِۦ تُكَذِّبُونَ ۝٢٠
Abdel Haleem
As for those who defy God, their home will be the Fire. Whenever they try to escape it, they will be driven back into it, and they will be told, ‘Taste the torment of the Fire, which you persistently denied.’
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

But as for those who transgressed by disbelieving and denying their abode shall be the Fire. Whenever they seek to exit from it they shall be brought back into it and it shall be said to them ‘Taste the chastisement of the Fire which you used to deny’.

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32:21 ›
وَلَنُذِیقَنَّهُم مِّنَ ٱلۡعَذَابِ ٱلۡأَدۡنَىٰ دُونَ ٱلۡعَذَابِ ٱلۡأَكۡبَرِ لَعَلَّهُمۡ یَرۡجِعُونَ ۝٢١
Abdel Haleem
We shall certainly make them taste a nearer torment [in this life] prior to the greater torment, so that perhaps they may return [to the right path]
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

And We shall surely make them taste the nearer chastisement that is the chastisement of this world — in their being killed or taken captive or through years of drought and disease — before the greater chastisement the chastisement of the Hereafter that perhaps they namely those remaining of them may return to belief.

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32:22 ›
وَمَنۡ أَظۡلَمُ مِمَّن ذُكِّرَ بِءَایَـٰتِ رَبِّهِۦ ثُمَّ أَعۡرَضَ عَنۡهَاۤۚ إِنَّا مِنَ ٱلۡمُجۡرِمِینَ مُنتَقِمُونَ ۝٢٢
Abdel Haleem
Who does more wrong than someone who, when messages from his Lord are recited to him, turns away from them? We shall inflict retribution on the guilty
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

And who does greater wrong than he who is reminded of the signs of his Lord such as the Qur’ān but then turns away from them? in other words none does greater wrong than such a person. Assuredly We shall take vengeance upon the criminals the idolaters.

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32:23 ›
وَلَقَدۡ ءَاتَیۡنَا مُوسَى ٱلۡكِتَـٰبَ فَلَا تَكُن فِی مِرۡیَةࣲ مِّن لِّقَاۤىِٕهِۦۖ وَجَعَلۡنَـٰهُ هُدࣰى لِّبَنِیۤ إِسۡرَ ٰۤءِیلَ ۝٢٣
Abdel Haleem
We gave Moses the Scripture- so [Muhammad] do not doubt that you are receiving it- and We made it a guide for the Children of Israel
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

And verily We gave Moses the Scripture the Torah; so do not be in doubt concerning the encounter with Him and indeed he and He met on the Night of the Journey; and We appointed him namely Moses — or read ‘We appointed it’ the Scripture a guidance for the Children of Israel.

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32:24 ›
وَجَعَلۡنَا مِنۡهُمۡ أَىِٕمَّةࣰ یَهۡدُونَ بِأَمۡرِنَا لَمَّا صَبَرُوا۟ۖ وَكَانُوا۟ بِءَایَـٰتِنَا یُوقِنُونَ ۝٢٤
Abdel Haleem
When they became steadfast and believed firmly in Our messages, We raised leaders among them, guiding them according to Our command
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

And We appointed among them leaders read a-immatan by pronouncing both hamzas or by substituting the second one with a yā who guided people by Our command when they had endured patiently in observing their religion and against the hardships they suffered because of their enemies lammā ‘when’ a variant reading has limā ‘because’ and had conviction in Our signs the ones indicating Our power and Our Oneness.

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32:25 ›
إِنَّ رَبَّكَ هُوَ یَفۡصِلُ بَیۡنَهُمۡ یَوۡمَ ٱلۡقِیَـٰمَةِ فِیمَا كَانُوا۟ فِیهِ یَخۡتَلِفُونَ ۝٢٥
Abdel Haleem
[Prophet], it is your Lord who will judge between them on the Day of Resurrection concerning their differences
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

Surely your Lord will judge between them on the Day of Resurrection concerning that wherein they used to differ in matters of religion.

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32:26 ›
أَوَ لَمۡ یَهۡدِ لَهُمۡ كَمۡ أَهۡلَكۡنَا مِن قَبۡلِهِم مِّنَ ٱلۡقُرُونِ یَمۡشُونَ فِی مَسَـٰكِنِهِمۡۚ إِنَّ فِی ذَ ٰلِكَ لَءَایَـٰتٍۚ أَفَلَا یَسۡمَعُونَ ۝٢٦
Abdel Haleem
Is it not a lesson for them [to see] how many generations We destroyed before them, in whose homes they now walk? There truly are signs in this- do they not hear
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

Or is it not an indication for them how many generations communities on account of their disbelief We destroyed before them that is to say has not Our destruction of many generations become clear to the disbelievers of Mecca amid whose dwellings they walk yamshūna is a circumstantial qualifier referring to the person of the pronoun lahum ‘for them’ during their travels to Syria and other places so that they might take heed? Surely in that there are signs indications of Our power. Are they not able to hear? in a way so as to reflect and be admonished.

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32:27 ›
أَوَ لَمۡ یَرَوۡا۟ أَنَّا نَسُوقُ ٱلۡمَاۤءَ إِلَى ٱلۡأَرۡضِ ٱلۡجُرُزِ فَنُخۡرِجُ بِهِۦ زَرۡعࣰا تَأۡكُلُ مِنۡهُ أَنۡعَـٰمُهُمۡ وَأَنفُسُهُمۡۚ أَفَلَا یُبۡصِرُونَ ۝٢٧
Abdel Haleem
Do they not consider how We drive rain to the barren land, and with it produce vegetation from which their cattle and they themselves eat? Do they not see
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

Or have they not seen how We drive the water to barren land juruz this is arid land that contains no vegetation and therewith bring forth crops whereof their cattle and they themselves eat? Can they not see? this and so realise that We have the power to bring them back to life after death.

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32:28 ›
وَیَقُولُونَ مَتَىٰ هَـٰذَا ٱلۡفَتۡحُ إِن كُنتُمۡ صَـٰدِقِینَ ۝٢٨
Abdel Haleem
And they say, ‘When will this Decision be, if you are telling the truth?’
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

And they say to the believers ‘When will this decisive Judgement between us and yourselves be if you are truthful?’

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32:29 ›
قُلۡ یَوۡمَ ٱلۡفَتۡحِ لَا یَنفَعُ ٱلَّذِینَ كَفَرُوۤا۟ إِیمَـٰنُهُمۡ وَلَا هُمۡ یُنظَرُونَ ۝٢٩
Abdel Haleem
Say, ‘On the Day of Decision it will be no use for the disbelievers to believe; they will be granted no respite.’
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

Say ‘On the day of this Judgement which will be effected by sending the chastisement on them their newly found faith then shall not benefit those who had been disbelievers nor shall they be given respite to make repentance or offer excuses.

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32:30 ›
فَأَعۡرِضۡ عَنۡهُمۡ وَٱنتَظِرۡ إِنَّهُم مُّنتَظِرُونَ ۝٣٠
Abdel Haleem
So [Prophet], turn away from them and wait: they too are waiting
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

So turn away from them and wait for the chastisement to be sent down on them. They too are waiting for your death to take place or for you to be killed and so be rid of you — this was revealed before the command to fight them.

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