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-Buruj البُرُوج (The Mansions of the Stars, The Constellations) 22 verses · Meccan

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بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ
In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
85:1 ›
وَالسَّمَاءِ ذَاتِ الْبُرُوجِ
Abdel Haleem
By the sky with its towering constellations
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

By the heaven of the constellations the twelve constellations of the planets — as explained in sūrat al-Furqān Q. 2561;

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85:2 ›
وَالْيَوْمِ الْمَوْعُودِ
Abdel Haleem
by the promised Day
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

and by the promised day the Day of Resurrection;

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85:3 ›
وَشَاهِدٍ وَمَشْهُودٍ
Abdel Haleem
by the Witness and that which is witnessed
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

and by the witness Friday and the witnessed the day of ‘Arafa — that is how these three elements have been explained in hadīth for the first one is ‘promised’ the second one is ‘a witness’ that testifies to deeds performed in it while the third is ‘witnessed’ by mankind and angels the introductory particle of the response to the oath has been omitted but is implied to be laqad ‘verily’ sc. laqad qutila ashābu’l-ukhdūd

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85:4 ›
قُتِلَ أَصْحَابُ الْأُخْدُودِ
Abdel Haleem
damned were the makers of the trench
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

perish accursed be the men of the ditch! the pit in the ground

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85:5 ›
النَّارِ ذَاتِ الْوَقُودِ
Abdel Haleem
the makers of the fuel-stoked fire
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

of the fire al-nāri is an inclusive substitution of it al-ukhdūdi ‘of the ditch’ abounding in fuel by which it was fuelled

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85:6 ›
إِذْ هُمْ عَلَيْهَا قُعُودٌ
Abdel Haleem
They sat dow
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

when they sat by it around the edge of the ditch on chairs

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85:7 ›
وَهُمْ عَلَىٰ مَا يَفْعَلُونَ بِالْمُؤْمِنِينَ شُهُودٌ
Abdel Haleem
to watch what they were doing to the believers
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

and they themselves to what they did to those who believed in God in the way of torturing them by hurling them into the fire when they did not recant their faith were witnesses they were themselves present thereat. It is reported in a hadīth that God saved the believers who had been thrown into the fire by taking their souls before they fell into it and that the fire then rose up and burnt all those sitting around it.

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85:8 ›
وَمَا نَقَمُوا مِنْهُمْ إِلَّا أَن يُؤْمِنُوا بِاللَّهِ الْعَزِيزِ الْحَمِيدِ
Abdel Haleem
Their only grievance against them was their faith in God, the Mighty, the Praiseworthy
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

And all that they were vindicative towards them of was that they believed in God the Mighty in His kingdom the Praised

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85:9 ›
الَّذِي لَهُ مُلْكُ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضِ وَاللَّهُ عَلَىٰ كُلِّ شَيْءٍ شَهِيدٌ
Abdel Haleem
to whom all control over the heavens and earth belongs: God is witness over all things
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

to Whom belongs the kingdom of the heavens and the earth and God is Witness to all things in other words all that the disbelievers disavowed of the believers was their faith.

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85:10 ›
إِنَّ الَّذِينَ فَتَنُوا الْمُؤْمِنِينَ وَالْمُؤْمِنَاتِ ثُمَّ لَمْ يَتُوبُوا فَلَهُمْ عَذَابُ جَهَنَّمَ وَلَهُمْ عَذَابُ الْحَرِيقِ
Abdel Haleem
For those who persecute believing men and women, and do not repent afterwards, there will be the torment of Hell and burning
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

Indeed those who persecute believing men and believing women by having them burnt then do not repent there will be for them the chastisement of Hell in return for their disbelief and there will also be for them the chastisement of burning that is to say the chastisement for their having had the believers burnt in the Hereafter; but it is also said that there is this chastisement for them in this world as when the fire rose up and burnt them as mentioned above.

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85:11 ›
إِنَّ الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا وَعَمِلُوا الصَّالِحَاتِ لَهُمْ جَنَّاتٌ تَجْرِي مِن تَحْتِهَا الْأَنْهَارُ ذَٰلِكَ الْفَوْزُ الْكَبِيرُ
Abdel Haleem
But for those who believe and do good deeds there will be Gardens graced with flowing streams: that is the great triumph
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

Indeed those who believe and perform righteous deeds for them there will be gardens underneath which rivers flow that is the supreme triumph.

85:12 ›
إِنَّ بَطْشَ رَبِّكَ لَشَدِيدٌ
Abdel Haleem
[Prophet], your Lord’s punishment is truly stern––
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

Assuredly your Lord’s assault against the disbelievers is severe as severe as He will it to be.

85:13 ›
إِنَّهُ هُوَ يُبْدِئُ وَيُعِيدُ
Abdel Haleem
it is He who brings people to life, and will restore them to life again––
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

Assuredly it is He Who originates creation and restores and is never thwarted in what He wills

85:14 ›
وَهُوَ الْغَفُورُ الْوَدُودُ
Abdel Haleem
and He is the Most Forgiving, the Most Loving
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

and He is the Forgiving to sinning believers the Loving the One Who shows love to His friends through His acts of generosity

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85:15 ›
ذُو الْعَرْشِ الْمَجِيدُ
Abdel Haleem
The Glorious Lord of the Throne
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

Lord of the Throne its Creator and Possessor the Glorious read nominative al-majīdu the One deserving of the perfect attributes of sublimity

85:16 ›
فَعَّالٌ لِّمَا يُرِيدُ
Abdel Haleem
He does whatever He will
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

Doer of what He desires nothing able to thwart Him.

85:17 ›
هَلْ أَتَاكَ حَدِيثُ الْجُنُودِ
Abdel Haleem
Have you [not] heard the stories of the force
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

Have you O Muhammad (s) received the story of the hosts

85:18 ›
فِرْعَوْنَ وَثَمُودَ
Abdel Haleem
of Pharaoh and Thamud
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

Pharaoh and Thamūd? Fir‘awna wa-Thamūda substitutes for al-junūdi — the mention of ‘Pharaoh’ suffices to also include his followers; their ‘story’ is that they were destroyed for their disbelief and this is meant as a warning for those who deny the Prophet s and the Qur’ān that they may be admonished thereby.

85:19 ›
بَلِ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا فِي تَكْذِيبٍ
Abdel Haleem
Yet still the disbelievers persist in denial
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

Nay but the disbelievers are engrossed in denial of the mentioned;

85:20 ›
وَاللَّهُ مِن وَرَائِهِم مُّحِيطٌ
Abdel Haleem
God surrounds them all
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

and God is behind them All-Encompassing — they have no protector against Him.

85:21 ›
بَلْ هُوَ قُرْآنٌ مَّجِيدٌ
Abdel Haleem
This is truly a glorious Qura
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

Nay but it is a glorious a magnificent Qur’ān

85:22 ›
فِي لَوْحٍ مَّحْفُوظٍ
Abdel Haleem
[written] on a preserved Tablet
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

in a tablet suspended above the seventh heaven preserved read mahfūzin from all devils and from having any of its contents altered; it is a high as the distance between the earth and the heaven and as wide as the distance between the east and the west made of white pearls — as stated by Ibn ‘Abbās may God be pleased with both him and his father ‘Abbās

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