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-Ghashiyah الغَاشِيَة (The Overwhelming, The Overwhelming Calamity, The Pall) 26 verses · Meccan

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بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ
In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
88:1 ›
هَلْ أَتَاكَ حَدِيثُ الْغَاشِيَةِ
Abdel Haleem
Have you heard tell [Prophet] about the Overwhelming Event
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

Has there — there has indeed — come to you the tiding of the Enveloper? the Resurrection so called because it ‘envelops’ creatures with its terrors.

88:2 ›
وُجُوهٌ يَوْمَئِذٍ خَاشِعَةٌ
Abdel Haleem
On that Day, there will be downcast faces
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

Some faces on that day — they faces are used to represent the individuals in both instances — will be humbled abject

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88:3 ›
عَامِلَةٌ نَّاصِبَةٌ
Abdel Haleem
toiling and weary
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

toiling weary tired and exhausted from the chains and fetters

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88:4 ›
تَصْلَىٰ نَارًا حَامِيَةً
Abdel Haleem
as they enter the blazing Fir
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

roasting read taslā or tuslā in a scorching fire

88:5 ›
تُسْقَىٰ مِنْ عَيْنٍ آنِيَةٍ
Abdel Haleem
and are forced to drink from a boiling spring
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

made to drink from a boiling spring one of extremely hot temperatures.

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88:6 ›
لَّيْسَ لَهُمْ طَعَامٌ إِلَّا مِن ضَرِيعٍ
Abdel Haleem
with no food for them except bitter dry thorn
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

They will have no food except cactus darī‘ — a type of thorn plant which no animal grazes on because of its vileness —

88:7 ›
لَّا يُسْمِنُ وَلَا يُغْنِي مِن جُوعٍ
Abdel Haleem
that neither nourish nor satisfy hunger
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

neither nourishing nor availing against hunger.

88:8 ›
وُجُوهٌ يَوْمَئِذٍ نَّاعِمَةٌ
Abdel Haleem
On that Day there will also be faces radiant with bliss
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

Other faces on that day will be delicate fair

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88:9 ›
لِّسَعْيِهَا رَاضِيَةٌ
Abdel Haleem
well pleased with their labour
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

pleased by their efforts in the life of the world expended in obedience pleased in the Hereafter upon seeing the reward thereof;

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88:10 ›
فِي جَنَّةٍ عَالِيَةٍ
Abdel Haleem
in a lofty garden
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

in a lofty Garden lofty in a physical as well as an abstract sense

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88:11 ›
لَّا تَسْمَعُ فِيهَا لَاغِيَةً
Abdel Haleem
where they will hear no idle talk
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

in which they will not hear read lā yusma‘u ‘will not be heard’ or lā tasma‘u ‘they will not hear’ any vanity any inane soul speaking drivel;

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88:12 ›
فِيهَا عَيْنٌ جَارِيَةٌ
Abdel Haleem
with a flowing spring
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

therein is a running spring of water meaning ‘springs’;

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88:13 ›
فِيهَا سُرُرٌ مَّرْفُوعَةٌ
Abdel Haleem
raised couches
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

therein are lofty couches lofty in terms of their essence their size and physical location

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88:14 ›
وَأَكْوَابٌ مَّوْضُوعَةٌ
Abdel Haleem
goblets placed before them
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

and goblets vessels without handles set around the edges of the springs prepared for them to drink with

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88:15 ›
وَنَمَارِقُ مَصْفُوفَةٌ
Abdel Haleem
cushions set in rows
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

and cushions arrayed one next to the other against which they may lean

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88:16 ›
وَزَرَابِيُّ مَبْثُوثَةٌ
Abdel Haleem
and carpets spread
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

and carpets rugs of velvet-hair spread out.

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88:17 ›
أَفَلَا يَنظُرُونَ إِلَى الْإِبِلِ كَيْفَ خُلِقَتْ
Abdel Haleem
Do the disbelievers not see how rain clouds are formed
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

Will they the Meccan disbelievers not consider by way of reflection the camels how they are created?

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88:18 ›
وَإِلَى السَّمَاءِ كَيْفَ رُفِعَتْ
Abdel Haleem
how the heavens are lifted
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

And the heaven how it was raised?

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88:19 ›
وَإِلَى الْجِبَالِ كَيْفَ نُصِبَتْ
Abdel Haleem
how the mountains are raised high
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

And the mountains how they were set?

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88:20 ›
وَإِلَى الْأَرْضِ كَيْفَ سُطِحَتْ
Abdel Haleem
how the earth is spread out
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

And the earth how it was laid out flat? and thus infer from this the power of God exalted be He and His Oneness? The commencing with the mention of camels is because they are closer in contact with it the earth than any other animal. As for His words sutihat ‘laid out flat’ this on a literal reading suggests that the earth is flat which is the opinion of most of the scholars of the revealed Law and not a sphere as astronomers ahl al-hay’a have it even if this latter does not contradict any of the pillars of the Law.

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88:21 ›
فَذَكِّرْ إِنَّمَا أَنتَ مُذَكِّرٌ
Abdel Haleem
So [Prophet] warn them: your only task is to give warning
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

So remind them of God’s graces and the proofs affirming His Oneness. For you are only an admonisher;

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88:22 ›
لَّسْتَ عَلَيْهِم بِمُصَيْطِرٍ
Abdel Haleem
you are not there to control them
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

you are not a taskmaster over them a variant reading for musaytir has musaytir that is to say not one who has been given authority over them — this was revealed before the command to struggle against the disbelievers.

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88:23 ›
إِلَّا مَن تَوَلَّىٰ وَكَفَرَ
Abdel Haleem
As for those who turn away and disbelieve
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

But he who turns away he who rejects faith and disbelieves in the Qur’ān

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88:24 ›
فَيُعَذِّبُهُ اللَّهُ الْعَذَابَ الْأَكْبَرَ
Abdel Haleem
God will inflict the greatest torment upon them
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

God will chastise him with the greater chastisement the chastisement of the Hereafter the lesser chastisement being that of this world that of being killed or taken captive.

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88:25 ›
إِنَّ إِلَيْنَا إِيَابَهُمْ
Abdel Haleem
It is to Us they will return
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

Truly to Us will be their return their coming back after death

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88:26 ›
ثُمَّ إِنَّ عَلَيْنَا حِسَابَهُم
Abdel Haleem
and then it is for Us to call them to account
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

then truly with Us will lie their reckoning their requital which We will never abandon.

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