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 at-Takwir التَّكْوِير (The Overthrowing, The Cessation) 29 verses · Meccan

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بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ
In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
81:1 ›
إِذَا الشَّمْسُ كُوِّرَتْ
Abdel Haleem
When the sun is shrouded in darkness
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

When the sun is folded away enfolded and stripped of its light

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81:2 ›
وَإِذَا النُّجُومُ انكَدَرَتْ
Abdel Haleem
when the stars are dimmed
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

and when the stars scatter when they are extinguished and hurtle down towards the earth

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81:3 ›
وَإِذَا الْجِبَالُ سُيِّرَتْ
Abdel Haleem
when the mountains are set in motion
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

and when the mountains are set in motion when they are blown away from the face of the earth becoming as scattered dust

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81:4 ›
وَإِذَا الْعِشَارُ عُطِّلَتْ
Abdel Haleem
when pregnant camels are abandoned
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

and when the pregnant camels are neglected abandoned without a herdsman or anyone to milk them on account of the matter that has come over them — even though previously no wealth was dearer to them than these pregnant camels;

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81:5 ›
وَإِذَا الْوُحُوشُ حُشِرَتْ
Abdel Haleem
when wild beasts are herded together
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

and when the wild beasts are mustered when they are brought together after being resurrected so that each of them may retaliate against the other before becoming dust;

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81:6 ›
وَإِذَا الْبِحَارُ سُجِّرَتْ
Abdel Haleem
when the seas boil over
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

and when the seas are set afire read sujirat or sujjirat when they are set alight and become a mass of fire;

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81:7 ›
وَإِذَا النُّفُوسُ زُوِّجَتْ
Abdel Haleem
when souls are sorted into classes
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

and when the souls are coupled when they are paired up with their bodies;

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81:8 ›
وَإِذَا الْمَوْءُودَةُ سُئِلَتْ
Abdel Haleem
when the baby girl buried alive is aske
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

and when the girl buried-alive the young girl buried alive for fear of shame and impoverishment asks — in rebuke of its slayer —

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81:9 ›
بِأَيِّ ذَنبٍ قُتِلَتْ
Abdel Haleem
for what sin she was killed
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

for what sin she was slain sa’alat ‘asks’ a variant reading has su’ilat ‘she is asked’ narrating the address directed to her to which she then responds by saying ‘I was slain without having committed any sin’;

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81:10 ›
وَإِذَا الصُّحُفُ نُشِرَتْ
Abdel Haleem
when the records of deeds are spread open
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

and when the scrolls the scrolls containing the deeds are unrolled read nushirat or nushshirat when they are unfolded and spread out;

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81:11 ›
وَإِذَا السَّمَاءُ كُشِطَتْ
Abdel Haleem
when the sky is stripped away
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

and when the heaven is stripped off torn away from its place just as the skin of a sheep is stripped off;

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81:12 ›
وَإِذَا الْجَحِيمُ سُعِّرَتْ
Abdel Haleem
when Hell is made to blaz
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

and when the Hell-fire is set ablaze read su‘irat or su‘‘irat when it is set alight;

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81:13 ›
وَإِذَا الْجَنَّةُ أُزْلِفَتْ
Abdel Haleem
and Paradise brought near
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

and when Paradise is brought near when it is brought close to those who have merited it that they may enter it the response to idhā ‘when’ at the beginning of the sūra and all that has been supplemented thereto is the following

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81:14 ›
عَلِمَتْ نَفْسٌ مَّا أَحْضَرَتْ
Abdel Haleem
then every soul will know what it has brought about
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

then a soul every soul at the time of the occurrence of the things mentioned which is the Day of Resurrection will know what it has presented of good or evil.

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81:15 ›
فَلَا أُقْسِمُ بِالْخُنَّسِ
Abdel Haleem
I swear by the planet
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

So I swear fa-lā lā is extra by the receding planets

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81:16 ›
الْجَوَارِ الْكُنَّسِ
Abdel Haleem
that recede, move, and hide
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

the movers the setters that is the five planets Saturn Jupiter Mars Venus and Mercury takhnusu means ‘they sink away’ during their orbit whereas we see stars at the end of their zodiacal course return to the start; taknisu means that they enter their kinās ‘hideaway’ in other words they retreat into their setting-places;

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81:17 ›
وَاللَّيْلِ إِذَا عَسْعَسَ
Abdel Haleem
by the night that descends
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

and by the night as it approaches as it falls with its darkness or it means as it recedes;

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81:18 ›
وَالصُّبْحِ إِذَا تَنَفَّسَ
Abdel Haleem
by the dawn that softly breathes
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

and by the dawn as it breathes as it extends until it becomes broad daylight

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81:19 ›
إِنَّهُ لَقَوْلُ رَسُولٍ كَرِيمٍ
Abdel Haleem
this is the speech of a noble messenger
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

truly this Qur’ān is the word of a messenger who is noble in the sight of God exalted be He — this being the messenger Gabriel it qawl ‘word’ has been annexed to him because he descends with it

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81:20 ›
ذِي قُوَّةٍ عِندَ ذِي الْعَرْشِ مَكِينٍ
Abdel Haleem
who possesses great strength and is held in honour by the Lord of the Throne––
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

powerful one of mighty powers eminent one of eminent status makīnin is semantically connected ‘inda ‘in the presence of’ in the presence of the Lord of the Throne that is God exalted be He;

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81:21 ›
مُّطَاعٍ ثَمَّ أَمِينٍ
Abdel Haleem
he is obeyed there and worthy of trust
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

obeyed there the angels obey him in the heavens trustworthy with the Revelation.

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81:22 ›
وَمَا صَاحِبُكُم بِمَجْنُونٍ
Abdel Haleem
Your companion is not mad
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

And your companion Muhammad (s) wa-mā sāhibukum a supplement to the clause from innahu ‘truly this is’ up to the last of the oath clauses is not a madman as you claim.

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81:23 ›
وَلَقَدْ رَآهُ بِالْأُفُقِ الْمُبِينِ
Abdel Haleem
he did see him on the clear horizon
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

For verily he Muhammad (s) saw him Gabriel in the form in which he was created on the clear horizon the highest one towards the east;

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81:24 ›
وَمَا هُوَ عَلَى الْغَيْبِ بِضَنِينٍ
Abdel Haleem
He does not withhold what is revealed to him from beyond
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

and he Muhammad (s) is not to be accused of knowing the Unseen what is hidden of the revelation and the tidings of the heaven a variant reading for bi-zanīnin has bi-danīnin meaning that he is not ‘niggardly’ with the Unseen so as to reduce something of it and not disclose it.

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81:25 ›
وَمَا هُوَ بِقَوْلِ شَيْطَانٍ رَّجِيمٍ
Abdel Haleem
This is not the word of an outcast devil
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

And it that is the Qur’ān is not the word of an accursed satan eavesdropping stealthily.

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81:26 ›
فَأَيْنَ تَذْهَبُونَ
Abdel Haleem
So where are you [people] going
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

So where are you going? So what path are you going to follow in repudiating the Qur’ān and turning away from it?

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81:27 ›
إِنْ هُوَ إِلَّا ذِكْرٌ لِّلْعَالَمِينَ
Abdel Haleem
This is a message for all people
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

It is only a reminder an admonition for all worlds those of mankind and jinn

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81:28 ›
لِمَن شَاءَ مِنكُمْ أَن يَسْتَقِيمَ
Abdel Haleem
for those who wish to take the straight path
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

for those of you who li-man shā’a minkum is a substitution for li’l-‘ālamīna ‘for all worlds’ using the same preposition wish to go straight by following the truth;

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81:29 ›
وَمَا تَشَاءُونَ إِلَّا أَن يَشَاءَ اللَّهُ رَبُّ الْعَالَمِينَ
Abdel Haleem
But you will only wish to do so by the will of God, the Lord of all people
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

but you will not wish to go straight along the path of truth unless God the Lord of the Worlds of all creatures wills that you should go straight along it.

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