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 ash-Shams الشَّمْس (The Sun) 15 verses · Meccan

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بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ
In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
91:1 ›
وَالشَّمْسِ وَضُحَاهَا
Abdel Haleem
By the sun in its morning brightnes
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

By the sun and her morning light

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91:2 ›
وَالْقَمَرِ إِذَا تَلَاهَا
Abdel Haleem
and by the moon as it follows it
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

and by the moon when it follows her rising after she has set

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91:3 ›
وَالنَّهَارِ إِذَا جَلَّاهَا
Abdel Haleem
by the day as it displays the sun’s glor
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

and by the day when it reveals her as it rises high

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91:4 ›
وَاللَّيْلِ إِذَا يَغْشَاهَا
Abdel Haleem
and by the night as it conceals it
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

and by the night when it enshrouds her covering her up with its darkness idhā ‘when’ in all three instances is an absolute adverbial operated by the verbal action of the oath.

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91:5 ›
وَالسَّمَاءِ وَمَا بَنَاهَا
Abdel Haleem
by the sky and how He built i
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

By the heaven and the One Who built it

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91:6 ›
وَالْأَرْضِ وَمَا طَحَاهَا
Abdel Haleem
and by the earth and how He spread it
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

and by the earth and the One Who spread it laid out flat.

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91:7 ›
وَنَفْسٍ وَمَا سَوَّاهَا
Abdel Haleem
by the soul and how He formed i
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

and by the soul that is to say by all souls and the One Who proportioned it in its created form mā in all three instances relates to the verbal action or functions as man ‘the one who’

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91:8 ›
فَأَلْهَمَهَا فُجُورَهَا وَتَقْوَاهَا
Abdel Haleem
and inspired it [to know] its own rebellion and piety
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

and inspired to discern its vices and piety He pointed out to it the path of good and that of evil the placing of taqwā ‘piety’ second takes into account the rhyme endings of the verses; the response to the oath is the following

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91:9 ›
قَدْ أَفْلَحَ مَن زَكَّاهَا
Abdel Haleem
The one who purifies his soul succeed
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

Successful indeed qad the lām of laqad ‘indeed’ has been omitted from it for the sake of brevity will be the one who purifies it purges it of sins

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91:10 ›
وَقَدْ خَابَ مَن دَسَّاهَا
Abdel Haleem
and the one who corrupts it fails
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

and he will indeed have failed he who eclipses it he who obscures it with acts of disobedience dassāhā is actually dassasahā but the second sīn has been replaced with an alif for phonetic ease.

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91:11 ›
كَذَّبَتْ ثَمُودُ بِطَغْوَاهَا
Abdel Haleem
In their arrogant cruelty, the people of Thamud called [their messenger] a liar
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

Thamūd denied their messenger Sālih because of their rebellious nature

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91:12 ›
إِذِ انبَعَثَ أَشْقَاهَا
Abdel Haleem
when the most wicked man among them rose [against him]
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

when the most wretched of them whose name was Qudār was dispatched when he hastened in order to hamstring the she-camel with their approval.

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91:13 ›
فَقَالَ لَهُمْ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ نَاقَةَ اللَّهِ وَسُقْيَاهَا
Abdel Haleem
The messenger of God said to them, ‘[Leave] God’s camel to drink,’
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

But then the messenger of God Sālih said to them ‘This is the she-camel of God so let her have her drink!’ her drink on her day — one day was hers the next theirs.

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91:14 ›
فَكَذَّبُوهُ فَعَقَرُوهَا فَدَمْدَمَ عَلَيْهِمْ رَبُّهُم بِذَنبِهِمْ فَسَوَّاهَا
Abdel Haleem
but they called him a liar and hamstrung her. Their Lord destroyed them for their crime and levelled them
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

But they denied him with regard to his saying this as being a command from God — which if they contravened would immediately result in chastisement being sent down on them — then hamstrung her they slew it in order to appropriate her share of the drinking water. So their Lord closed in on them the chastisement because of their sin and meted it equally among them that is the closing in on them in other words He subsumed them all by it so that not one of them escaped.

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91:15 ›
وَلَا يَخَافُ عُقْبَاهَا
Abdel Haleem
He did not hesitate to punish them
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

And He does not read wa-lā or fa-lā fear the consequence of it.

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