Tafsir al-Jalalayn at-Tin التِّين (The Fig, The Figtree) 8 verses · Meccan

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بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ
In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
وَالتِّينِ وَالزَّيْتُونِ
Abdel Haleem
By the fig, by the olive
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

By the fig and the olive that is the two edible foods — or these denote the names of two mountains in Syria on which these two foods grow —

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وَطُورِ سِينِينَ
Abdel Haleem
by Mount Sinai
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

and by the Mount Sinai the mountain on which God exalted be He spoke to Moses sīnīn means ‘the one blessed’ or ‘the fair one with fruitful trees’

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وَهَٰذَا الْبَلَدِ الْأَمِينِ
Abdel Haleem
by this safe town
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

and by this secure land Mecca as people were secure in it in the time of pagandom and are still secure in it in Islam.

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لَقَدْ خَلَقْنَا الْإِنسَانَ فِي أَحْسَنِ تَقْوِيمٍ
Abdel Haleem
We create man in the finest stat
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

Verily We created man al-insān the generic in the best of forms in the best proportioning of his shape.

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ثُمَّ رَدَدْنَاهُ أَسْفَلَ سَافِلِينَ
Abdel Haleem
then reduce him to the lowest of the low
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

Then in the case of certain individuals of his species We reduced him to the lowest of the low — a metaphor for old age and weakness at which point a believer’s deeds are fewer than when he was young; but he will still have his reward as God exalted be He says

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إِلَّا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا وَعَمِلُوا الصَّالِحَاتِ فَلَهُمْ أَجْرٌ غَيْرُ مَمْنُونٍ
Abdel Haleem
except those who believe and do good deeds––
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

except those who believe and perform righteous deeds for they shall have an unfailing reward one unending — in a hadīth it is stated ‘When a believer reaches that stage of old age which prevents him from performing good deeds then what he used to do is recorded in his favour instead’.

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فَمَا يُكَذِّبُكَ بَعْدُ بِالدِّينِ
Abdel Haleem
they will have an unfailing reward. After this, what makes you [man] deny the Judgement
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

So what makes you deny O disbeliever thereafter — after the mention of man being created in the best of forms and his being reduced to the vilest of age all of which indicates the power of God to resurrect — the Judgement? the Requital that will be preceded by the Resurrection and the Reckoning. In other words what makes you disbelieve in all this? Nothing does!

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أَلَيْسَ اللَّهُ بِأَحْكَمِ الْحَاكِمِينَ
Abdel Haleem
Is God not the most decisive of judges
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

Is not God the fairest of all judges? the most just of all judges. His passing judgement by means of the process of requital is one such example. In a hadīth it is stated ‘Whoever recites sūrat wa’l-tīni ‘By the fig’ to the end of it let him then say “Yes Indeed! And I am of those who bear witness to this!” ’

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