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-Fajr الفَجْر (The Dawn, Daybreak) 30 verses · Meccan

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بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ
In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
89:1 ›
وَالْفَجْرِ
Abdel Haleem
By the Daybreak
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

By the dawn that is to say by the dawn of each day

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89:2 ›
وَلَيَالٍ عَشْرٍ
Abdel Haleem
by the Ten Nights
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

and by the ten nights the first ten nights of Dhū’l-Hijja

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89:3 ›
وَالشَّفْعِ وَالْوَتْرِ
Abdel Haleem
by the even and the odd
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

and by the even the pair and the odd read watr or witr two alternative forms the single

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89:4 ›
وَاللَّيْلِ إِذَا يَسْرِ
Abdel Haleem
by the passing night––
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

and by the night in motion falling or receding

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89:5 ›
هَلْ فِي ذَٰلِكَ قَسَمٌ لِّذِي حِجْرٍ
Abdel Haleem
is this oath strong enough for a rational person
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

Is there in that oath an oath for one of sense? one of intellect the response to the oath has been omitted that is to say it is to be understood as something like la-tu‘adhdhabunna yā kuffāra Makka ‘you will assuredly be chastised O disbelievers of Mecca!’.

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89:6 ›
أَلَمْ تَرَ كَيْفَ فَعَلَ رَبُّكَ بِعَادٍ
Abdel Haleem
Have you [Prophet] considered how your Lord dealt with [the people] of 'Ad
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

Have you not seen do you not know O Muhammad (s) how your Lord dealt with ‘Ād

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89:7 ›
إِرَمَ ذَاتِ الْعِمَادِ
Abdel Haleem
of Iram, [the city] of lofty pillars
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

Iram — these were the former people of ‘Ād Irama is an explicative supplement or a substitution and it is treated as a diptote because it is a proper noun and feminine — of the towering ones that is to say the tall ones — the tallest one among them would reach four hundred cubits —

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89:8 ›
الَّتِي لَمْ يُخْلَقْ مِثْلُهَا فِي الْبِلَادِ
Abdel Haleem
whose like has never been made in any land
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

the like of which was not created in the land in terms of their power of assault and strength

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89:9 ›
وَثَمُودَ الَّذِينَ جَابُوا الصَّخْرَ بِالْوَادِ
Abdel Haleem
and the Thamud, who hewed into the rocks in the valley
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

and Thamūd who hollowed hewed the rocks sakhr is the plural of sakhra in the valley the Wādī al-Qurā rocks which they used as dwellings

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89:10 ›
وَفِرْعَوْنَ ذِي الْأَوْتَادِ
Abdel Haleem
and the mighty and powerful Pharaoh
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

and Pharaoh the one of the tent-pegs he used to fasten four pegs and tie to these the hands and feet of those whom he tortured —

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89:11 ›
الَّذِينَ طَغَوْا فِي الْبِلَادِ
Abdel Haleem
All of them committed excesses in their lands
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

those who were rebellious became tyrannical in the land

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89:12 ›
فَأَكْثَرُوا فِيهَا الْفَسَادَ
Abdel Haleem
and spread corruption there
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

and caused much corruption therein? by way of slaying and otherwise.

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89:13 ›
فَصَبَّ عَلَيْهِمْ رَبُّكَ سَوْطَ عَذَابٍ
Abdel Haleem
your Lord let a scourge of punishment loose on them
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

So your Lord poured on them a scourge of chastisement.

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89:14 ›
إِنَّ رَبَّكَ لَبِالْمِرْصَادِ
Abdel Haleem
Your Lord is always watchful
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

Assuredly your Lord is ever on the watch watching over the deeds of servants nothing of which escapes Him that He may then requite them for these deeds.

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89:15 ›
فَأَمَّا الْإِنسَانُ إِذَا مَا ابْتَلَاهُ رَبُّهُ فَأَكْرَمَهُ وَنَعَّمَهُ فَيَقُولُ رَبِّي أَكْرَمَنِ
Abdel Haleem
[The nature of] man is that, when his Lord tries him through honour and blessings, he says, ‘My Lord has honoured me,’
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

And as for man the disbeliever whenever his Lord tests him and honours him with wealth and other things and is gracious to him he says ‘My Lord has honoured me’.

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89:16 ›
وَأَمَّا إِذَا مَا ابْتَلَاهُ فَقَدَرَ عَلَيْهِ رِزْقَهُ فَيَقُولُ رَبِّي أَهَانَنِ
Abdel Haleem
but when He tries him through the restriction of his provision, he says, ‘My Lord has humiliated me.’
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

But when he tests him and restricts his provision for him he says ‘My Lord has humiliated me’.

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89:17 ›
كَلَّا بَل لَّا تُكْرِمُونَ الْيَتِيمَ
Abdel Haleem
No indeed! You [people] do not honour orphans
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

No indeed! — a disavowal of this notion in other words honour is not about wealth nor is there any humiliation in poverty rather it has to do with obedience and disobedience respectively; but the disbelievers of Mecca unmindful of this. Rather they do not honour the orphan they do not treat him with kindness despite their wealth or it means that they do not give him what is his due from an inheritance

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89:18 ›
وَلَا تَحَاضُّونَ عَلَىٰ طَعَامِ الْمِسْكِينِ
Abdel Haleem
you do not urge one another to feed the poor
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

and they do not urge neither themselves nor others the feeding of the needy;

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89:19 ›
وَتَأْكُلُونَ التُّرَاثَ أَكْلًا لَّمًّا
Abdel Haleem
you consume inheritance greedily
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

and they devour inheritance turāth means mīrāth greedily lamman that is to say voraciously when they appropriate lammuhum the women’s and the young ones’ share of the inheritance together with their own share of it or to their own wealth;

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89:20 ›
وَتُحِبُّونَ الْمَالَ حُبًّا جَمًّا
Abdel Haleem
and you love wealth with a passion
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

and they love wealth with abounding love that is to say greatly and so they do not expend any of it a variant reading in the case of all four verbs has the second person plural.

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89:21 ›
كَلَّا إِذَا دُكَّتِ الْأَرْضُ دَكًّا دَكًّا
Abdel Haleem
No indeed! When the earth is pounded to dust, pounded and pounded
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

No indeed! — a deterrent for them from such conduct. When the earth is pulverised repeatedly when it is shaken until every edifice has collapsed and is destroyed

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89:22 ›
وَجَاءَ رَبُّكَ وَالْمَلَكُ صَفًّا صَفًّا
Abdel Haleem
when your Lord comes with the angels, rank upon rank
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

and your Lord that is to say His command and the angels arrive rank on rank saffan saffan is a circumstantial qualifier meaning ‘standing in rows’ or ‘made up of many ranks’

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89:23 ›
وَجِيءَ يَوْمَئِذٍ بِجَهَنَّمَ يَوْمَئِذٍ يَتَذَكَّرُ الْإِنسَانُ وَأَنَّىٰ لَهُ الذِّكْرَىٰ
Abdel Haleem
when Hell is that Day brought near- on that Day man will take heed, but what good will that be to him then
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

and Hell on that day is brought near pulled by seventy thousand sets of reins each set of reins pulled by the hands of seventy thousand angels as it groans and seethes in fury; on that day yawma’idhin is a substitution for idhā ‘when’ the response to which is the following man that is to say the disbeliever will remember his prodigal conduct in it but how will remembering avail him now? the interrogative is meant as a denial in other words his remembering that will not be of any use to him.

89:24 ›
يَقُولُ يَا لَيْتَنِي قَدَّمْتُ لِحَيَاتِي
Abdel Haleem
He will say, ‘Would that I had provided for this life to come!’
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

He will say as he remembers ‘O yā is for calling attention to something would that I had sent ahead good deeds and faith for my life!’ for a good life in the Hereafter or it means ‘during my life’ in the world.

89:25 ›
فَيَوْمَئِذٍ لَّا يُعَذِّبُ عَذَابَهُ أَحَدٌ
Abdel Haleem
On that Day, no one will punish as He punishes
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

Then on that day none shall mete out read yu‘adhdhibu His God’s chastisement that is to say He shall not delegate it to any other;

89:26 ›
وَلَا يُوثِقُ وَثَاقَهُ أَحَدٌ
Abdel Haleem
and no one will bind as He binds
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

and likewise none shall bind read yūthiqu His bind a variant reading has yu‘adhdhabu ‘none shall be chastised’ and yūthaqu ‘none shall be bound’ so that the suffixed pronoun of ‘adhābahu and wathāqahu refers to the chastisement and the binds of the disbeliever the meaning then being ‘none shall be chastised as he shall and none shall be bound as he shall be bound’.

89:27 ›
يَا أَيَّتُهَا النَّفْسُ الْمُطْمَئِنَّةُ
Abdel Haleem
‘[But] you, soul at peace
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

‘O soul at peace! the one secure namely the believing one.

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89:28 ›
ارْجِعِي إِلَىٰ رَبِّكِ رَاضِيَةً مَّرْضِيَّةً
Abdel Haleem
return to your Lord well pleased and well pleasing
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

Return — this is said to it upon death — to your Lord that is to say return to His command and to His will pleased with the reward pleasing in God’s sight with your deeds; in other words return O soul combining both descriptions both of which are circumstantial qualifiers. And it will be said to it at the Resurrection

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89:29 ›
فَادْخُلِي فِي عِبَادِي
Abdel Haleem
go in among My servants
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

Then enter among My righteous servants!

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89:30 ›
وَادْخُلِي جَنَّتِي
Abdel Haleem
and into My Garden.’
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

And enter My Paradise!’ with them.

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