🕋 تفسير سورة التين
(At-Tin) • المصدر: EN-AL-JALALAYN
بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَٰنِ الرَّحِيمِ وَالتِّينِ وَالزَّيْتُونِ
📘 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 —
ثُمَّ رَدَدْنَاهُ أَسْفَلَ سَافِلِينَ
📘 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
إِلَّا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا وَعَمِلُوا الصَّالِحَاتِ فَلَهُمْ أَجْرٌ غَيْرُ مَمْنُونٍ
📘 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’.
فَمَا يُكَذِّبُكَ بَعْدُ بِالدِّينِ
📘 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!
أَلَيْسَ اللَّهُ بِأَحْكَمِ الْحَاكِمِينَ
📘 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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