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-Tariq الطَّارِق (The Morning Star, The Nightcomer) 17 verses · Meccan

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بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ
In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
86:1 ›
وَالسَّمَاءِ وَالطَّارِقِ
Abdel Haleem
By the sky and the night-comer––
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

By the heaven and the night-visitor! al-tāriq actually denotes any thing that comes by night including stars because they come out at night.

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86:2 ›
وَمَا أَدْرَاكَ مَا الطَّارِقُ
Abdel Haleem
What will explain to you what the night-comer is
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

And what will tell you what the night-visitor is? mā’l-tāriq is a subject and predicate standing as the second object of the verb adrā ‘tell’; and what comes after the first mā ‘what’ is the predicate thereof of this first mā — this statement emphasises the magnificence of the ‘night-visitor’ which is explained in what follows. It is

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86:3 ›
النَّجْمُ الثَّاقِبُ
Abdel Haleem
The piercing star––
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

The piercing the brilliant because of its piercing the darkness with its light star! meaning the constellation Pleiades; or it refers to all stars the response to the oath follows

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86:4 ›
إِن كُلُّ نَفْسٍ لَّمَّا عَلَيْهَا حَافِظٌ
Abdel Haleem
there is a watcher over every soul
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

Over every soul there is a keeper if read la-mā then mā is extra and in is softened in place of the hardened form with its subject omitted that is to say innahu; the lām is a particle for separation; if read lammā then in is for negation and lammā means illā ‘except that’ — the watcher is an angel that keeps a record of its deeds both the good and the evil.

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86:5 ›
فَلْيَنظُرِ الْإِنسَانُ مِمَّ خُلِقَ
Abdel Haleem
Man should reflect on what he was created from
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

So let man consider by way of reflection from what he was created from what thing

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86:6 ›
خُلِقَ مِن مَّاءٍ دَافِقٍ
Abdel Haleem
He is created from spurting fluid
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

the response is He was created from a gushing fluid gushing forth from the man and the woman into the womb

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86:7 ›
يَخْرُجُ مِن بَيْنِ الصُّلْبِ وَالتَّرَائِبِ
Abdel Haleem
then he emerges from between the backbone and breastbone
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

issuing from between the loins of the man and the breast-bones of the woman.

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86:8 ›
إِنَّهُ عَلَىٰ رَجْعِهِ لَقَادِرٌ
Abdel Haleem
God is certainly able to bring him back to life
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

Assuredly He exalted be He is able to bring him back to resurrect man after his death; and so when he reflects on his origins he will realise that the One who was able to do this is also able to resurrect him

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86:9 ›
يَوْمَ تُبْلَى السَّرَائِرُ
Abdel Haleem
On the Day when secrets are laid bar
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

on the day when all secrets the hidden convictions and intentions of the hearts are inspected when they are examined and revealed

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86:10 ›
فَمَا لَهُ مِن قُوَّةٍ وَلَا نَاصِرٍ
Abdel Haleem
he will have no power and no one to help him
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

whereat he the one who denies resurrection will have neither strength to defend himself against chastisement nor any helper to avert it from him.

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86:11 ›
وَالسَّمَاءِ ذَاتِ الرَّجْعِ
Abdel Haleem
By the sky and its recurring rain
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

By the heaven of returns of the rain that returns time and again

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86:12 ›
وَالْأَرْضِ ذَاتِ الصَّدْعِ
Abdel Haleem
by the earth that cracks open
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

and by the earth of fissures splitting with the growth of vegetation

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86:13 ›
إِنَّهُ لَقَوْلٌ فَصْلٌ
Abdel Haleem
This is truly a decisive statement
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

assuredly it the Qur’ān is a decisive word distinguishing between truth and falsehood

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86:14 ›
وَمَا هُوَ بِالْهَزْلِ
Abdel Haleem
it is not something to be taken lightly
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

and it is not a jest frivolity or falsehood.

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86:15 ›
إِنَّهُمْ يَكِيدُونَ كَيْدًا
Abdel Haleem
They plot and scheme
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

Indeed they that is the disbelievers are devising a plot they are preparing plots against the Prophet s

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86:16 ›
وَأَكِيدُ كَيْدًا
Abdel Haleem
but so do I
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

and I too am devising a plot drawing them by degrees towards destruction from whence they know not.

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86:17 ›
فَمَهِّلِ الْكَافِرِينَ أَمْهِلْهُمْ رُوَيْدًا
Abdel Haleem
[Prophet], let the disbelievers be, let them be for a while
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

So respite O Muhammad (s) the disbelievers; grant them respite reiterated as an emphasis one enhanced by the use of a different form mahhil amhil that is to say put them off for a little ruwaydā is a verbal noun emphasising the import of the operator and is the diminutive form of rūd or irwad with shortening of final consonant ruwaydan ruwaydā. Surely enough God exalted be He seized them at Badr and abrogated the dispensation of ‘granting respite’ by the ‘sword’ verse in other words by the command to fight and struggle.

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