Tafsir al-Jalalayn al-Inshiqaq الإِنْشِقَاق (The Sundering, Splitting Open) 25 verses · Meccan

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بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ
In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
إِذَا السَّمَاءُ انشَقَّتْ
Abdel Haleem
When the sky is ripped apart
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

When the heaven is rent asunder

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وَأَذِنَتْ لِرَبِّهَا وَحُقَّتْ
Abdel Haleem
obeying its Lord as it rightly must
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

and heeds gives ear to and in rending itself asunder obeys its Lord as it should that is as its duty is to heed and obey

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وَإِذَا الْأَرْضُ مُدَّتْ
Abdel Haleem
when the earth is levelled out
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

and when the earth is stretched out when its width is increased just as a piece of leather is stretched so that no edifice or mountain remains upon it

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وَأَلْقَتْ مَا فِيهَا وَتَخَلَّتْ
Abdel Haleem
casts out its contents, and becomes empty
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

and casts out all that is in it of the dead onto its surface and empties itself thereof

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وَأَذِنَتْ لِرَبِّهَا وَحُقَّتْ
Abdel Haleem
obeying its Lord as it rightly must
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

and heeds and in this respect gives ear to and obeys its Lord as it should all of this will be on the Day of Resurrection the response to idhā ‘when’ and to all that is supplemented thereto has been omitted; but it is indicated by what follows it and is implied to be something like laqiya’l-insānu ‘amalahu ‘man will encounter his deeds’.

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يَا أَيُّهَا الْإِنسَانُ إِنَّكَ كَادِحٌ إِلَىٰ رَبِّكَ كَدْحًا فَمُلَاقِيهِ
Abdel Haleem
you humans, toiling laboriously towards your Lord, will meet Him
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

O man! Verily you are labouring exerting your efforts toward the encounter with your Lord that is death laboriously and you will encounter it that is you will encounter your mentioned good or evil deeds on the Day of Resurrection.

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فَأَمَّا مَنْ أُوتِيَ كِتَابَهُ بِيَمِينِهِ
Abdel Haleem
whoever is given his record in his right han
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

Then as for him who is given his book the record of his deeds in his right hand — and this is the believer —

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فَسَوْفَ يُحَاسَبُ حِسَابًا يَسِيرًا
Abdel Haleem
will have an easy reckonin
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

he will receive an easy reckoning which simply entails the presentation of his deeds to him as in the hadīth of the two Sahīhs of Bukhārī and Muslim — in which there is also a hadīth saying ‘He who is reckoned with at length will be destined for perdition’ — and after this presentation of his deeds to the believer he will be excused

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وَيَنقَلِبُ إِلَىٰ أَهْلِهِ مَسْرُورًا
Abdel Haleem
and return to his people well pleased
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

and return to his family in Paradise joyful because of it.

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وَأَمَّا مَنْ أُوتِيَ كِتَابَهُ وَرَاءَ ظَهْرِهِ
Abdel Haleem
but whoever is given his record from behind his bac
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

But as for him who is given his book from behind his back — and this is the disbeliever whose right hand is chained to his neck and whose left hand by which he is given the book is placed behind his back

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فَسَوْفَ يَدْعُو ثُبُورًا
Abdel Haleem
will cry out for destruction––
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

he will pray upon seeing what is in it for annihilation he will invoke destruction against himself by saying yā thabūrāh ‘O annihilation of mine!’

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وَيَصْلَىٰ سَعِيرًا
Abdel Haleem
he will burn in the blazing Fire
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

and he will enter the Blaze an intense fire a variant reading for yaslā ‘he will enter’ has yusallā ‘he will be admitted’.

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إِنَّهُ كَانَ فِي أَهْلِهِ مَسْرُورًا
Abdel Haleem
He used to live among his people well pleased
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

Indeed among his folk his clan in the world he used to be joyful wanton lusting after his desires;

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إِنَّهُ ظَنَّ أَن لَّن يَحُورَ
Abdel Haleem
He thought he would never return [to his Lord]––
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

indeed he thought that an softened in place of the hardened form with its subject omitted that is to say annahu he would never return to his Lord.

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بَلَىٰ إِنَّ رَبَّهُ كَانَ بِهِ بَصِيرًا
Abdel Haleem
indeed he will! His Lord was watching him
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

Nay! he will return to Him; indeed his Lord is ever Seer of him knowing that he would return to Him.

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فَلَا أُقْسِمُ بِالشَّفَقِ
Abdel Haleem
I swear by the glow of sunset
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

So I swear fa-lā lā is extra by the twilight al-shafaq the reddishness visible in the horizon after the sunset

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وَاللَّيْلِ وَمَا وَسَقَ
Abdel Haleem
by the night and what it covers
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

and by the night and what it envelops what it brings together of creatures and otherwise that have entered into it

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وَالْقَمَرِ إِذَا اتَّسَقَ
Abdel Haleem
by the full moon
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and by the moon when it is at the full and its light is complete and this happens during the nights of the full moon

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لَتَرْكَبُنَّ طَبَقًا عَن طَبَقٍ
Abdel Haleem
you will progress from stage to stage
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

you will surely journey tarkabunna is actually tarkabūnanna but the nūn of the indicative has been omitted because of two identical letters following one another and the wāw is omitted because of two unvocalised consonants coming together from stage to stage state after state namely death then life then what comes afterwards of the states at the Resurrection.

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فَمَا لَهُمْ لَا يُؤْمِنُونَ
Abdel Haleem
So why do they not believe
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

So what is wrong with them that is the disbelievers that they do not have faith that is to say what is there to prevent them from embracing faith; or what argument do they have for neglecting it despite the existence of proofs for it

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وَإِذَا قُرِئَ عَلَيْهِمُ الْقُرْآنُ لَا يَسْجُدُونَ
Abdel Haleem
Why, when the Quran is read to them, do they not prostrate themselves [to God]
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

and what is wrong with them that when the Qur’ān is recited to them they do not prostrate? they do not submit by believing in it given its inimitability?

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بَلِ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا يُكَذِّبُونَ
Abdel Haleem
No! The disbelievers reject the Quran––
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

Nay but the disbelievers deny resurrection and other matters

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وَاللَّهُ أَعْلَمُ بِمَا يُوعُونَ
Abdel Haleem
God knows best what they keep hidden inside––
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

and God knows best what they are amassing accumulating in their scrolls in the way of disbelief denial and evil deeds.

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فَبَشِّرْهُم بِعَذَابٍ أَلِيمٍ
Abdel Haleem
so give them news of a painful torment
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

So give them good tidings inform them of a painful chastisement

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إِلَّا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا وَعَمِلُوا الصَّالِحَاتِ لَهُمْ أَجْرٌ غَيْرُ مَمْنُونٍ
Abdel Haleem
But those who believe and do good deeds will have a never-ending reward
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

except those who believe and perform righteous deeds theirs will be an unfailing reward one that is unending undiminished and not given to them in expectance of anything in return.

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