🕋 تفسير سورة الغاشية
(Al-Ghashiya) • المصدر: EN-AL-JALALAYN
بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَٰنِ الرَّحِيمِ هَلْ أَتَاكَ حَدِيثُ الْغَاشِيَةِ
📘 Has there — there has indeed — come to you the tiding of the Enveloper? the Resurrection so called because it ‘envelops’ creatures with its terrors.
فِي جَنَّةٍ عَالِيَةٍ
📘 in a lofty Garden lofty in a physical as well as an abstract sense
لَا تَسْمَعُ فِيهَا لَاغِيَةً
📘 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;
فِيهَا عَيْنٌ جَارِيَةٌ
📘 therein is a running spring of water meaning ‘springs’;
فِيهَا سُرُرٌ مَرْفُوعَةٌ
📘 therein are lofty couches lofty in terms of their essence their size and physical location
وَأَكْوَابٌ مَوْضُوعَةٌ
📘 and goblets vessels without handles set around the edges of the springs prepared for them to drink with
وَنَمَارِقُ مَصْفُوفَةٌ
📘 and cushions arrayed one next to the other against which they may lean
وَزَرَابِيُّ مَبْثُوثَةٌ
📘 and carpets rugs of velvet-hair spread out.
أَفَلَا يَنْظُرُونَ إِلَى الْإِبِلِ كَيْفَ خُلِقَتْ
📘 Will they the Meccan disbelievers not consider by way of reflection the camels how they are created?
وَإِلَى السَّمَاءِ كَيْفَ رُفِعَتْ
📘 And the heaven how it was raised?
وَإِلَى الْجِبَالِ كَيْفَ نُصِبَتْ
📘 And the mountains how they were set?
وُجُوهٌ يَوْمَئِذٍ خَاشِعَةٌ
📘 Some faces on that day — they faces are used to represent the individuals in both instances — will be humbled abject
وَإِلَى الْأَرْضِ كَيْفَ سُطِحَتْ
📘 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.
فَذَكِّرْ إِنَّمَا أَنْتَ مُذَكِّرٌ
📘 So remind them of God’s graces and the proofs affirming His Oneness. For you are only an admonisher;
لَسْتَ عَلَيْهِمْ بِمُصَيْطِرٍ
📘 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.
إِلَّا مَنْ تَوَلَّىٰ وَكَفَرَ
📘 But he who turns away he who rejects faith and disbelieves in the Qur’ān
فَيُعَذِّبُهُ اللَّهُ الْعَذَابَ الْأَكْبَرَ
📘 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.
إِنَّ إِلَيْنَا إِيَابَهُمْ
📘 Truly to Us will be their return their coming back after death
ثُمَّ إِنَّ عَلَيْنَا حِسَابَهُمْ
📘 then truly with Us will lie their reckoning their requital which We will never abandon.
عَامِلَةٌ نَاصِبَةٌ
📘 toiling weary tired and exhausted from the chains and fetters
تَصْلَىٰ نَارًا حَامِيَةً
📘 roasting read taslā or tuslā in a scorching fire
تُسْقَىٰ مِنْ عَيْنٍ آنِيَةٍ
📘 made to drink from a boiling spring one of extremely hot temperatures.
لَيْسَ لَهُمْ طَعَامٌ إِلَّا مِنْ ضَرِيعٍ
📘 They will have no food except cactus darī‘ — a type of thorn plant which no animal grazes on because of its vileness —
لَا يُسْمِنُ وَلَا يُغْنِي مِنْ جُوعٍ
📘 neither nourishing nor availing against hunger.
وُجُوهٌ يَوْمَئِذٍ نَاعِمَةٌ
📘 Other faces on that day will be delicate fair
لِسَعْيِهَا رَاضِيَةٌ
📘 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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