Tafsir al-Jalalayn al-Qadr القَدْر (Power, Fate, The Majesty) 5 verses · Meccan

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بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ
In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
إِنَّا أَنزَلْنَاهُ فِي لَيْلَةِ الْقَدْرِ
Abdel Haleem
We sent it down on the Night of Glory
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

Lo! We revealed it that is the Qur’ān in its entirety sending it down from the Preserved Tablet to the heaven of this world on the Night of Ordainment that is the Night of great eminence.

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وَمَا أَدْرَاكَ مَا لَيْلَةُ الْقَدْرِ
Abdel Haleem
What will explain to you what that Night of Glory is
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

And what will show you what will make known to you O Muhammad (s) what the Night of Ordainment is? — intended to emphasise its great status and to provoke marvel at it.

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لَيْلَةُ الْقَدْرِ خَيْرٌ مِّنْ أَلْفِ شَهْرٍ
Abdel Haleem
The Night of Glory is better than a thousand months
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

The Night of Ordainment is better than a thousand months in which there is no Night of Ordainment for a righteous deed on that Night is better than one performed for a thousand months without it.

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تَنَزَّلُ الْمَلَائِكَةُ وَالرُّوحُ فِيهَا بِإِذْنِ رَبِّهِم مِّن كُلِّ أَمْرٍ
Abdel Haleem
on that night the angels and the Spirit descend again and again with their Lord’s permission on every task
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

The angels and the Spirit namely Gabriel descend tanazzalu one of the two original tā’ letters of tatanazzalu has been omitted in it on that night by the leave of their Lord by His command with every command that God has decreed from that year to the following one min is causative functioning as bi ‘with’.

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سَلَامٌ هِيَ حَتَّىٰ مَطْلَعِ الْفَجْرِ
Abdel Haleem
[there is] peace that night until the break of dawn
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

It is peaceful salāmun hiya a predicate preceding the subject until the rising of the dawn read matla‘ or matli‘ until the time it rises it is peaceful because of the numerous salutations of peace salām spoken in it by the angels who every time they come across a believing man or believing woman bid him peace.

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