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 al-Qalam القَلَم (The Pen) 52 verses · Meccan

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بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ
In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
68:1 ›
۞ نۤۚ وَٱلۡقَلَمِ وَمَا یَسۡطُرُونَ ۝١
Abdel Haleem
Nun By the pen! By all they write
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

Nūn one of the letters of the alphabet God knows best what He means by it. By the Pen with which He has inscribed the records of all creatures in the Preserved Tablet and what they inscribe that is the angels of good and righteousness.

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68:2 ›
مَاۤ أَنتَ بِنِعۡمَةِ رَبِّكَ بِمَجۡنُونࣲ ۝٢
Abdel Haleem
Your Lord’s grace does not make you [Prophet] a madman
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

You are not O Muhammad (s) by the grace of your Lord a madman that is to say madness is precluded in your case on account of your Lord’s grace to you by way of His assigning to you prophethood and in other ways — this was a refutation of their saying that he was a madman.

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68:3 ›
وَإِنَّ لَكَ لَأَجۡرًا غَیۡرَ مَمۡنُونࣲ ۝٣
Abdel Haleem
you will have a never-ending reward––
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

And assuredly you will have an unfailing reward.

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وَإِنَّكَ لَعَلَىٰ خُلُقٍ عَظِیمࣲ ۝٤
Abdel Haleem
truly you have a strong character––
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

And assuredly you possess a magnificent nature a magnificent religion.

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68:5 ›
فَسَتُبۡصِرُ وَیُبۡصِرُونَ ۝٥
Abdel Haleem
and soon you will see, as will they
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

Then you will see and they will see

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68:6 ›
بِأَییِّكُمُ ٱلۡمَفۡتُونُ ۝٦
Abdel Haleem
which of you is afflicted with madness
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

which of you is demented al-maftūn is a verbal noun similar in expressional form to al-ma‘qūl ‘intelligible’; al-futūn meaning al-junūn ‘insanity’ in other words is it this insanity in you or in them?

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68:7 ›
إِنَّ رَبَّكَ هُوَ أَعۡلَمُ بِمَن ضَلَّ عَن سَبِیلِهِۦ وَهُوَ أَعۡلَمُ بِٱلۡمُهۡتَدِینَ ۝٧
Abdel Haleem
Your Lord knows best who strays from His path and who is rightly guided
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

Assuredly your Lord knows best those who stray from His way and He knows best those who are guided to Him.

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68:8 ›
فَلَا تُطِعِ ٱلۡمُكَذِّبِینَ ۝٨
Abdel Haleem
So do not yield to those who deny the truth––
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

So do not obey the deniers.

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68:9 ›
وَدُّوا۟ لَوۡ تُدۡهِنُ فَیُدۡهِنُونَ ۝٩
Abdel Haleem
they want you to compromise with them and then they will compromise with you––
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

They desire they yearn that law relates to the verbal action you should be pliable that you should yield to them so that they may be pliable towards you so that they may yield to you fa-yudhinūna is a supplement to tudhinu ‘you should be pliable’ but if it is understood to be the response to the optative clause of waddū ‘they yearn’ then a free standing pronoun hum should be read as implied before it after the fā’ sc. fa-hum yudhinūna.

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68:10 ›
وَلَا تُطِعۡ كُلَّ حَلَّافࣲ مَّهِینٍ ۝١٠
Abdel Haleem
do not yield to any contemptible swearer
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

And do not obey any mean despicable oath-monger given to frequent swearing by falsehood

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هَمَّازࣲ مَّشَّاۤءِۭ بِنَمِیمࣲ ۝١١
Abdel Haleem
to any backbiter, slander-monger
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

backbiting faultfinder that is to say calumniator scandal-monger spreading evil talk among people in order to sow dissension between them

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68:12 ›
مَّنَّاعࣲ لِّلۡخَیۡرِ مُعۡتَدٍ أَثِیمٍ ۝١٢
Abdel Haleem
or hinderer of good, to anyone who is sinful, aggressive
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

hinderer of good niggardly with his wealth against deserving causes sinful transgressor wrongdoer

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68:13 ›
عُتُلِّۭ بَعۡدَ ذَ ٰلِكَ زَنِیمٍ ۝١٣
Abdel Haleem
coarse, and on top of all that, an imposter
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

coarse-grained crude moreover ignoble an adopted son of Quraysh — namely al-Walīd b. al-Mughīra whose father claimed him after eighteen years; Ibn ‘Abbās said ‘We know of no one whom God has described in the derogatory way in which He describes him blighting him with ignominy that will never leave him the adverbial qualifier ba‘da dhālika ‘moreover’ is semantically connected to zanīm ‘ignoble’ —

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68:14 ›
أَن كَانَ ذَا مَالࣲ وَبَنِینَ ۝١٤
Abdel Haleem
Just because he has wealth and sons
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

only because an should be understood as li-an ‘because’ and it is semantically connected to that meaning which it is indicating he has wealth and sons.

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68:15 ›
إِذَا تُتۡلَىٰ عَلَیۡهِ ءَایَـٰتُنَا قَالَ أَسَـٰطِیرُ ٱلۡأَوَّلِینَ ۝١٥
Abdel Haleem
when our revelations are recited to him, he says, ‘These are just ancient fables.’
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

When Our signs — the Qur’ān — are recited to him he says that they are merely ‘Fables of the ancients!’ in other words he denies them in arrogance on account of the mentioned things which We have bestowed on him out of Our grace a variant reading for an of the previous verse has the interrogative a-an.

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68:16 ›
سَنَسِمُهُۥ عَلَى ٱلۡخُرۡطُومِ ۝١٦
Abdel Haleem
We shall brand him on the snout
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

We shall brand him on the snout We shall leave a distinguishing mark upon his nose one by which he will be reviled for as long as he lives; and so his nose was chopped off by a sword at Badr.

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68:17 ›
إِنَّا بَلَوۡنَـٰهُمۡ كَمَا بَلَوۡنَاۤ أَصۡحَـٰبَ ٱلۡجَنَّةِ إِذۡ أَقۡسَمُوا۟ لَیَصۡرِمُنَّهَا مُصۡبِحِینَ ۝١٧
Abdel Haleem
We have tried them as We tried the owners of a certain garden, who swore that they would harvest its fruits in the mornin
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

Indeed We have tried them We have tested the people of Mecca with drought and famine just as We tried the owners of the garden the orchard when they vowed that they would pluck that they would pick its fruits in the morning so that the poor folk would not notice them and so that they would not then have to give them of it that portion which their father used to give them of it by way of charity.

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وَلَا یَسۡتَثۡنُونَ ۝١٨
Abdel Haleem
and made no allowance [for the Will of God]
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

And they did not make any exception to their vow for God’s will the sentence is a new syntactically independent one in other words and that was their condition.

68:19 ›
فَطَافَ عَلَیۡهَا طَاۤىِٕفࣱ مِّن رَّبِّكَ وَهُمۡ نَاۤىِٕمُونَ ۝١٩
Abdel Haleem
a disaster from your Lord struck the garden as they slep
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

Then a visitation from your Lord visited it that is a fire consumed it during the night while they slept.

68:20 ›
فَأَصۡبَحَتۡ كَٱلصَّرِیمِ ۝٢٠
Abdel Haleem
and by morning it was stripped bare, a desolate land
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

So by the morning it was like the darkness of night in other words black.

68:21 ›
فَتَنَادَوۡا۟ مُصۡبِحِینَ ۝٢١
Abdel Haleem
Still they called each other at daybreak
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

They then called out to one another in the morning

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68:22 ›
أَنِ ٱغۡدُوا۟ عَلَىٰ حَرۡثِكُمۡ إِن كُنتُمۡ صَـٰرِمِینَ ۝٢٢
Abdel Haleem
‘Go early to your field if you wish to gather all its fruits,’
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

saying ‘Go forth early to your tillage your produce ani’ghdū ‘alā harthikum constitutes an explication of the import of tanādaw ‘they called out to one another’; otherwise an relates to the verbal action to be understood as being bi-an if you are going to pluck’ if your intention is to pick the fruits the response to the conditional is indicated by what preceded it.

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68:23 ›
فَٱنطَلَقُوا۟ وَهُمۡ یَتَخَـٰفَتُونَ ۝٢٣
Abdel Haleem
and went off, whispering
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

So off they went whispering to one another talking secretly

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68:24 ›
أَن لَّا یَدۡخُلَنَّهَا ٱلۡیَوۡمَ عَلَیۡكُم مِّسۡكِینࣱ ۝٢٤
Abdel Haleem
‘Make sure no poor person enters the garden today!’––
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

‘No needy person shall today come to you in it’ this constitutes the explication of the preceding verse; or else an relates to the verbal action to be understood to mean bi-an.

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68:25 ›
وَغَدَوۡا۟ عَلَىٰ حَرۡدࣲ قَـٰدِرِینَ ۝٢٥
Abdel Haleem
they left early, bent on their purpose
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

And they went forth early supposing themselves able to prohibit to prevent the poor folk from enjoying the fruit.

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68:26 ›
فَلَمَّا رَأَوۡهَا قَالُوۤا۟ إِنَّا لَضَاۤلُّونَ ۝٢٦
Abdel Haleem
but when they saw the garden, they said, ‘We must have lost our way
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

But when they saw it blackened and charred they said ‘Assuredly we have strayed!’ from it that is to say this is not the one. Then when they recognised it they said

68:27 ›
بَلۡ نَحۡنُ مَحۡرُومُونَ ۝٢٧
Abdel Haleem
No- we are ruined!’
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

‘Nay but we have been deprived!’ of its fruits by our denying it to the poor folk.

68:28 ›
قَالَ أَوۡسَطُهُمۡ أَلَمۡ أَقُل لَّكُمۡ لَوۡلَا تُسَبِّحُونَ ۝٢٨
Abdel Haleem
The wisest of them said, ‘Did I not say to you, “Will you not glorify God?”’
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

The most moderate the best one among them said ‘Did I not say to you “Why do you not glorify?” ’ God repenting to Him.

68:29 ›
قَالُوا۟ سُبۡحَـٰنَ رَبِّنَاۤ إِنَّا كُنَّا ظَـٰلِمِینَ ۝٢٩
Abdel Haleem
they said, ‘Glory be to God, Our Lord! Truly, we were doing wrong!’
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

They said ‘Glory be to God our Lord. Verily we have been wrongdoers’ by denying the poor folk what is their due.

68:30 ›
فَأَقۡبَلَ بَعۡضُهُمۡ عَلَىٰ بَعۡضࣲ یَتَلَـٰوَمُونَ ۝٣٠
Abdel Haleem
and then they turned to each other in mutual reproach
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

They then turned to one another blaming each other.

68:31 ›
قَالُوا۟ یَـٰوَیۡلَنَاۤ إِنَّا كُنَّا طَـٰغِینَ ۝٣١
Abdel Haleem
They said, ‘Alas for us! We have done terrible wrong
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

They said ‘O yā is for calling attention to something woe to us! O destruction of ours. We have indeed been unjust.

68:32 ›
عَسَىٰ رَبُّنَاۤ أَن یُبۡدِلَنَا خَیۡرࣰا مِّنۡهَاۤ إِنَّاۤ إِلَىٰ رَبِّنَا رَ ٰغِبُونَ ۝٣٢
Abdel Haleem
but maybe our Lord will give us something better in its place: we truly turn to Him in hope.’
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

It may be that our Lord will give us in its place read yubaddilanā or yubdilanā one that is better than it. Truly we turn humbly to our Lord’ that He might accept our repentance and give us back a garden that is better than our garden — it is reported that they were indeed given a better one in its place.

68:33 ›
كَذَ ٰلِكَ ٱلۡعَذَابُۖ وَلَعَذَابُ ٱلۡءَاخِرَةِ أَكۡبَرُۚ لَوۡ كَانُوا۟ یَعۡلَمُونَ ۝٣٣
Abdel Haleem
Such is the punishment [in this life], but greater still is the punishment in the Hereafter, if only they knew
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

Such that is to say like the chastisement for these people will be the chastisement for those disbelievers of Mecca and others who contravene Our command; and the chastisement of the Hereafter is assuredly greater did they but know its chastisement they would not have contavened Our command. When they said ‘If we are resurrected we shall be given better than what you have been given the following was revealed

68:34 ›
إِنَّ لِلۡمُتَّقِینَ عِندَ رَبِّهِمۡ جَنَّـٰتِ ٱلنَّعِیمِ ۝٣٤
Abdel Haleem
There will be Gardens of bliss for those who are mindful of God
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

Verily for the God-fearing there will be the Gardens of Bliss near their Lord.

68:35 ›
أَفَنَجۡعَلُ ٱلۡمُسۡلِمِینَ كَٱلۡمُجۡرِمِینَ ۝٣٥
Abdel Haleem
Should We treat those who submit to Us as We treat those who do evil
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

Are We then to treat those who submit to Us as We treat the sinners? that is to say as belonging with them in terms of reward?

68:36 ›
مَا لَكُمۡ كَیۡفَ تَحۡكُمُونَ ۝٣٦
Abdel Haleem
What is the matter with you? On what basis do you judge
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

What is wrong with you? How do you judge? with such corrupt judgement?

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68:37 ›
أَمۡ لَكُمۡ كِتَـٰبࣱ فِیهِ تَدۡرُسُونَ ۝٣٧
Abdel Haleem
Do you have a Scripture that tells yo
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

Or am lakum means a-lakum do you have a Scripture revealed wherein you learn wherein you read

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68:38 ›
إِنَّ لَكُمۡ فِیهِ لَمَا تَخَیَّرُونَ ۝٣٨
Abdel Haleem
that you will be granted whatever you choose
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

that you will indeed have in it whatever you choose?

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68:39 ›
أَمۡ لَكُمۡ أَیۡمَـٰنٌ عَلَیۡنَا بَـٰلِغَةٌ إِلَىٰ یَوۡمِ ٱلۡقِیَـٰمَةِ إِنَّ لَكُمۡ لَمَا تَحۡكُمُونَ ۝٣٩
Abdel Haleem
Have you received from Us solemn oaths, binding to the Day of Resurrection, that you will get whatever you yourselves decide
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

Or do you have oaths pledges binding secured on Us until the Day of Resurrection ilā yawmi’l-qiyāmati is semantically connected to ‘alaynā ‘on Us’; these words ‘alaynā bālighatun ‘binding on Us’ contain the sense of an oath given in other words ‘Did We swear to you?’ the response to which is what follows that you will indeed have whatever you decide? to have for yourselves.

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68:40 ›
سَلۡهُمۡ أَیُّهُم بِذَ ٰلِكَ زَعِیمٌ ۝٤٠
Abdel Haleem
Ask them [Prophet] which of them will guarantee this
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

Ask them which of them will aver will guarantee for them that? that decision which they have made for themselves namely that they will be given better reward than the believers in the Hereafter?

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68:41 ›
أَمۡ لَهُمۡ شُرَكَاۤءُ فَلۡیَأۡتُوا۟ بِشُرَكَاۤىِٕهِمۡ إِن كَانُوا۟ صَـٰدِقِینَ ۝٤١
Abdel Haleem
Do they have ‘partners’ [besides God]? Let them produce their ‘partners’, if what they say is true
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

Or do they have partners? who agree with them in this claim of theirs and able to guarantee it for them; if that is the case Then let them produce their partners those who will guarantee this for them if they are truthful.

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68:42 ›
یَوۡمَ یُكۡشَفُ عَن سَاقࣲ وَیُدۡعَوۡنَ إِلَى ٱلسُّجُودِ فَلَا یَسۡتَطِیعُونَ ۝٤٢
Abdel Haleem
On the Day when matters become dire, they will be invited to prostrate themselves but will be prevented from doing so
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

Mention the day when the shank is bared an expression denoting the severity of the predicament during the reckoning and the requital on the Day of Resurrection one says kashafati’l-harbu ‘an sāqin ‘the war has bared its shank’ to mean that it has intensified and they are summoned to prostrate themselves as a test of their faith but they will not be able to do so — their backs will become as stiff as a brick wall.

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68:43 ›
خَـٰشِعَةً أَبۡصَـٰرُهُمۡ تَرۡهَقُهُمۡ ذِلَّةࣱۖ وَقَدۡ كَانُوا۟ یُدۡعَوۡنَ إِلَى ٱلسُّجُودِ وَهُمۡ سَـٰلِمُونَ ۝٤٣
Abdel Haleem
and their eyes will be downcast and they will be overwhelmed with shame: they were invited to prostrate themselves when they were safe [but refused]
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

With humbled khāshi‘atan is a circumstantial qualifier referring to the person of the verb yud‘awna ‘they are summoned’ that is to say with abject gazes which they do not raise they will be overcast enveloped by abasement; for they had indeed been summoned in this world to prostrate themselves while they were yet sound but they never used to do it by the fact that they never performed prayer.

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68:44 ›
فَذَرۡنِی وَمَن یُكَذِّبُ بِهَـٰذَا ٱلۡحَدِیثِۖ سَنَسۡتَدۡرِجُهُم مِّنۡ حَیۡثُ لَا یَعۡلَمُونَ ۝٤٤
Abdel Haleem
So [Prophet] leave those who reject this revelation to Me: We shall lead them on, step by step, in ways beyond their knowledge
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

So leave Me to deal with those who deny this discourse — the Qur’ān. We will draw them on by degrees We will seize them little by little whence they do not know.

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68:45 ›
وَأُمۡلِی لَهُمۡۚ إِنَّ كَیۡدِی مَتِینٌ ۝٤٥
Abdel Haleem
I will allow them more time, for My plan is powerful
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

And I will grant them respite; for assuredly My devising is firm My devising is severe and cannot be withstood.

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68:46 ›
أَمۡ تَسۡءَلُهُمۡ أَجۡرࣰا فَهُم مِّن مَّغۡرَمࣲ مُّثۡقَلُونَ ۝٤٦
Abdel Haleem
Do you demand some reward from them that would burden them with debt
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

Or are you asking them a fee in return for delivering the Message so that they are weighed down with debt? so that they are weighed down with what they will have to give you and that is why they do not believe.

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68:47 ›
أَمۡ عِندَهُمُ ٱلۡغَیۡبُ فَهُمۡ یَكۡتُبُونَ ۝٤٧
Abdel Haleem
Do they have knowledge of the unseen that enables them to write it down
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

Or do they possess access to the Unseen that is access to the Preserved Tablet which contains knowledge of the Unseen so that they are writing down? from it what they say.

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68:48 ›
فَٱصۡبِرۡ لِحُكۡمِ رَبِّكَ وَلَا تَكُن كَصَاحِبِ ٱلۡحُوتِ إِذۡ نَادَىٰ وَهُوَ مَكۡظُومࣱ ۝٤٨
Abdel Haleem
Wait patiently [Prophet] for your Lord’s judgement: do not be like the man in the whale who called out in distress
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

So await patiently the judgement of your Lord regarding them in the way that He wills and do not be like the one of the whale in terms of impatience and haste — this is Jonah peace be upon him — who called out who supplicated his Lord choking with grief filled with anguish inside the belly of the whale.

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68:49 ›
لَّوۡلَاۤ أَن تَدَ ٰرَكَهُۥ نِعۡمَةࣱ مِّن رَّبِّهِۦ لَنُبِذَ بِٱلۡعَرَاۤءِ وَهُوَ مَذۡمُومࣱ ۝٤٩
Abdel Haleem
if his Lord’s grace had not reached him, he would have been left, abandoned and blameworthy, on the barren shore
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

Had it not been for a grace a mercy from his Lord that reached him he would have surely been cast out of the belly of the whale onto a wilderness a desolate land while he was blameworthy — but he was shown mercy and was therefore cast out blameless.

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68:50 ›
فَٱجۡتَبَـٰهُ رَبُّهُۥ فَجَعَلَهُۥ مِنَ ٱلصَّـٰلِحِینَ ۝٥٠
Abdel Haleem
but his Lord chose him and made him one of the Righteous
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

But his Lord chose him for prophethood and made him one of the righteous the prophets.

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68:51 ›
وَإِن یَكَادُ ٱلَّذِینَ كَفَرُوا۟ لَیُزۡلِقُونَكَ بِأَبۡصَـٰرِهِمۡ لَمَّا سَمِعُوا۟ ٱلذِّكۡرَ وَیَقُولُونَ إِنَّهُۥ لَمَجۡنُونࣱ ۝٥١
Abdel Haleem
The disbelievers almost strike you down with their looks when they hear the Quran. They say, ‘He must be mad!’
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

Indeed those who disbelieve would almost throw you down to the ground read la-yuzliqūnaka or la-yazliqūnaka with their looks looking at you in a severe way almost hurling you to the ground or making you fall from your place when they hear the Reminder the Qur’ān and they say out of envy ‘He is truly a madman!’ on account of the Qur’ān that he has brought.

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68:52 ›
وَمَا هُوَ إِلَّا ذِكۡرࣱ لِّلۡعَـٰلَمِینَ ۝٥٢
Abdel Haleem
but truly it is nothing other than a Reminder for all peoples
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

Yet it namely the Qur’ān is just a Reminder an admonition for all the worlds of both humans and jinn and cannot be the cause of any dementia.

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