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-A`la الأَعْلَىٰ (The Most High, Glory to your Lord in the Highest) 19 verses · Meccan

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بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ
In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
87:1 ›
سَبِّحِ اسْمَ رَبِّكَ الْأَعْلَى
Abdel Haleem
[Prophet], glorify the name of your Lord the Most High
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

Glorify the Name of your Lord that is exalt your Lord above what does not befit Him ism in isma rabbika ‘the Name of your Lord’ is extra the Most High an adjective qualifying rabbika ‘your Lord’

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87:2 ›
الَّذِي خَلَقَ فَسَوَّىٰ
Abdel Haleem
who created [all things] in due proportion
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

Who created and proportioned His creature making it of well-proportioned parts without irregularities

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87:3 ›
وَالَّذِي قَدَّرَ فَهَدَىٰ
Abdel Haleem
who determined their destinies and guided them
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

and Who determined what He wants and guided to what He had determined of good or evil

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87:4 ›
وَالَّذِي أَخْرَجَ الْمَرْعَىٰ
Abdel Haleem
who brought out the green pastur
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

and Who brought forth the pasture Who caused herbage to grow

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87:5 ›
فَجَعَلَهُ غُثَاءً أَحْوَىٰ
Abdel Haleem
then made it dark debris
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

then made it after verdancy blackened stubble desiccated broken chaff.

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87:6 ›
سَنُقْرِئُكَ فَلَا تَنسَىٰ
Abdel Haleem
[Prophet], We shall teach you [the Quran] and you will not forget––
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

We will have you recite the Qur’ān so that you will not forget what you recite

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87:7 ›
إِلَّا مَا شَاءَ اللَّهُ إِنَّهُ يَعْلَمُ الْجَهْرَ وَمَا يَخْفَىٰ
Abdel Haleem
unless God wishes; He knows both what is open and what is hidden––
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

except what God may will that you forget by abrogating its recitation and its ruling — the Prophet s used to recite aloud while Gabriel recited fearing to forget and so it is as though it was said to him ‘Do not hasten in it; you will not forget and so do not weary yourself by reciting it aloud’; assuredly He exalted be He knows what is overt of words and deeds and what is hidden of both of these.

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87:8 ›
وَنُيَسِّرُكَ لِلْيُسْرَىٰ
Abdel Haleem
We shall show you the easy way
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

And We will ease your way to the easy way the uncomplicated Law namely Islam.

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87:9 ›
فَذَكِّرْ إِن نَّفَعَتِ الذِّكْرَىٰ
Abdel Haleem
So remind, if reminding will help
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

So remind admonish by the Qur’ān in case the reminder should be of benefit to the one whom you might remind the one mentioned in the following verse ‘he who fears will be reminded’ in other words even if it might not be of benefit for it is of benefit to some but of no benefit to others.

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87:10 ›
سَيَذَّكَّرُ مَن يَخْشَىٰ
Abdel Haleem
Those who stand in awe of God will heed the reminder
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

He who fears God exalted be He will be reminded by it as in the verse So admonish by the Qur’ān him who fears My threat Q. 5045;

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87:11 ›
وَيَتَجَنَّبُهَا الْأَشْقَى
Abdel Haleem
but it will be ignored by the most wicked
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

but the wretched one al-ashqā means al-shaqī that is to say the disbeliever will shun it that is the reminder in other words he will leave it aside not looking at it

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87:12 ›
الَّذِي يَصْلَى النَّارَ الْكُبْرَىٰ
Abdel Haleem
who will enter the Great Fire
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

he who will be roasted in the greater Fire the Fire of the Hereafter the lesser fire being that of this world;

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87:13 ›
ثُمَّ لَا يَمُوتُ فِيهَا وَلَا يَحْيَىٰ
Abdel Haleem
where they will neither die nor live
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

then he will neither die therein and find rest nor live a enjoyable life.

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87:14 ›
قَدْ أَفْلَحَ مَن تَزَكَّىٰ
Abdel Haleem
Prosperous are those who purify themselves
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

Successful winner indeed is he who purifies himself who cleanses himself by means of his adherence to faith

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87:15 ›
وَذَكَرَ اسْمَ رَبِّهِ فَصَلَّىٰ
Abdel Haleem
remember the name of their Lord, and pray
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

and mentions the Name of his Lord saying Allāhu akbar ‘God is Great’ and prays the five prayers — and such are the concerns of one working towards the Hereafter concerns which the Meccan disbelievers shun.

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87:16 ›
بَلْ تُؤْثِرُونَ الْحَيَاةَ الدُّنْيَا
Abdel Haleem
Yet you [people] prefer the life of this world
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

Nay but you prefer or read yu’thirūna ‘they prefer’ the life of this world to the Hereafter

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87:17 ›
وَالْآخِرَةُ خَيْرٌ وَأَبْقَىٰ
Abdel Haleem
even though the Hereafter is better and more lasting
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

whereas the Hereafter and the Paradise it entails is better and more lasting.

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87:18 ›
إِنَّ هَٰذَا لَفِي الصُّحُفِ الْأُولَىٰ
Abdel Haleem
All this is in the earlier scriptures
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

Truly this the success of those who purify themselves and the Hereafter being better is in the former scrolls the ones revealed before the Qur’ān

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87:19 ›
صُحُفِ إِبْرَاهِيمَ وَمُوسَىٰ
Abdel Haleem
the scriptures of Abraham and Moses
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

the scrolls of Abraham and Moses the ten scrolls of Abraham and the Torah of Moses.

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