Tafsir Ishraq al-Ma'ani
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1. Al-Fatihah
2. Al-Baqarah
3. Al-Imran
4. Al-Nisa
5. Al-Maidah
6. Al-Anam
7. Al-Araf
8. Al-Anfal
9. Al-Taubah
10. Yunus
11. Hud
12. Yusuf
13. Al-Rad
14. Ibrahim
15. Al-Hijr
16. Al-Nahl
17. Bani Israil
18. Al-Kahf
19. Maryam
20. Ta-Ha
21. Al-Anbiya
22. Al-Hajj
23. Al-Muminun
24. An-Nur
25. Al-Furqan
26. Ash-Shuara
27. An-Naml
28. Al-Qasas
29. Al-Ankabut
30. Ar-Rum
31. Luqman
32. As-Sajdah
33. Al-Ahzab
34. Saba
35. Fatir
36. Yasin
37. As-Saffat
38. Saad
39. Az-Zumar
40. Al-Mumin
41. Ha-Meem-As-Sajdah
42. AShura
43. Az-Zukhruf
44. Ad-Dukhan
45. Al-Jathiyah
46. Al-Ahqaf
47. Muhammad
48. Al-Fath
49. Al-Hujurat
50. Al-Qaf
51. Adh-Dhariyat
52. At-Tur
53. An-Najm
54. Al-Qamar
55. Al-Rahman
56. Al-Waqiah
57. Al-Hadid
58. Al-Mujadalah
59. Al-Hashr
60. Al-Mumtahinah
61. As-Saff
62. Al-Jumuah
63. Al-Munafiqun
64. Al-Taghabun
65. At-Talaq
66. At-Tahrim
67. Al-Mulk
68. Al-Qalam
69. Al-Haqqah
70. Al-Maarij
71. Nuh
72. Al-Jinn
73. Al-Muzzammil
74. Al-Muddhththir
75. Al-Qiyamah
76. Ad-Dahr
77. Al-Mursalat
78. An-Naba
79. An-Naziat
80. Abas
81. At-Takwir
82. Al-Infitar
83. At-Tatfif
84. Al-Inshiqaq
85. Al-Buruj
86. At-Tariq
87. Al-Ala
88. Al-Ghashiyah
89. Al-Fajr
90. Al-Balad
91. Ash-Shams
92. Al-Lail
93. Ad-Duha
94. Al-Inshirah
95. At-Tin
96. Al-Alaq
97. Al-Qadr
98. Al-Bayyinah
99. Az-Zilzal
100. Al-Adiyat
101. Al-Qariah
102. At-Takathur
103. Al-Asr
104. Al-Humazah
105. Al-Fil
106. Al-Quraish
107. Al-Maun
108. Al-Kauthar
109. Al-Kafirun
110. An-Nasr
111. Al-Lahab
112. Al-Ikhlas
113. Al-Falaq
114. An-Nas
قُلْ Say یٰۤاَیُّهَا O النَّاسُ mankind اِنِّیْ Indeed I am رَسُوْلُ (the) Messenger اللّٰهِ (of) Allah اِلَیْكُمْ to you جَمِیْعَا all لَّذِیْ the One لَهٗ for Whom مُلْكُ (is the) dominion السَّمٰوٰتِ (of) the heavens وَ الْاَرْضِ ۚ and the earth لَاۤ (There is) no اِلٰهَ god اِلَّا except هُوَ Him یُحْیٖ He gives life وَ یُمِیْتُ ۪ and causes death فَاٰمِنُوْا So believe بِاللّٰهِ in Allah وَ رَسُوْلِهِ and His Messenger النَّبِیِّ the Prophet الْاُمِّیِّ the unlettered الَّذِیْ the one who یُؤْمِنُ believes بِاللّٰهِ in Allah وَ كَلِمٰتِهٖ and His Words وَ اتَّبِعُوْهُ and follow him لَعَلَّكُمْ so that you may تَهْتَدُوْنَ (be) guided وَ مِنْ And among قَوْمِ (the) people مُوْسٰۤی (of) Musa اُمَّةٌ (is) a community یَّهْدُوْنَ (which) guides بِالْحَقِّ with truth وَ بِهٖ and by it یَعْدِلُوْنَ establishes justice 7. Al-A'raf Page 171 وَ قَطَّعْنٰهُمُ And We divided them اثْنَتَیْ (into) two عَشْرَةَ (and) ten [i.e. twelve] اَسْبَاطًا tribes اُمَمًا ؕ (as) communities وَ اَوْحَیْنَاۤ And We inspired اِلٰی to مُوْسٰۤی Musa اِذِ when اسْتَسْقٰىهُ asked him for water قَوْمُهٗۤ his people اَنِ [that] اضْرِبْ Strike بِّعَصَاكَ with your staff الْحَجَرَ ۚ the stone فَانْۢبَجَسَتْ Then gushed forth مِنْهُ from it اثْنَتَا two عَشْرَةَ (and) ten [i.e. twelve] عَیْنًا ؕ springs قَدْ Certainly عَلِمَ knew كُلُّ each اُنَاسٍ people مَّشْرَبَهُمْ ؕ their drinking place وَ ظَلَّلْنَا And We shaded عَلَیْهِمُ [on] them الْغَمَامَ (with) the clouds وَ اَنْزَلْنَا and We sent down عَلَیْهِمُ upon them الْمَنَّ the manna وَالسَّلْوٰی ؕ and the quails كُلُوْا Eat مِنْ from طَیِّبٰتِ (the) good things مَا which رَزَقْنٰكُمْ ؕ We have provided you وَ مَا And not ظَلَمُوْنَا they wronged Us وَ لٰكِنْ but كَانُوْۤا they were اَنْفُسَهُمْ (to) themselves یَظْلِمُوْنَ doing wrong وَ اِذْ And when قِیْلَ it was said لَهُمُ to them اسْكُنُوْا Live هٰذِهِ (in) this الْقَرْیَةَ city وَ كُلُوْا and eat مِنْهَا from it حَیْثُ wherever شِئْتُمْ you wish وَ قُوْلُوْا and say حِطَّةٌ Repentance وَّ ادْخُلُوا and enter الْبَابَ the gate سُجَّدًا prostrating نَّغْفِرْ We will forgive لَكُمْ for you خَطِیْٓـٰٔتِكُمْ ؕ your sins سَنَزِیْدُ We will increase (reward) الْمُحْسِنِیْنَ (of) the good-doers فَبَدَّلَ But changed الَّذِیْنَ those who ظَلَمُوْا wronged مِنْهُمْ among them قَوْلًا word غَیْرَ other than الَّذِیْ (that) which قِیْلَ was said لَهُمْ to them فَاَرْسَلْنَا So We sent عَلَیْهِمْ upon them رِجْزًا torment مِّنَ from السَّمَآءِ the sky بِمَا because كَانُوْا they were یَظْلِمُوْنَ۠ doing wrong
(7:158) Say, (O Prophet), ‘O people. Verily, I am Allah's Messenger unto you all,243 He to whom belongs the dominion of the heavens and the earth. There is no god but He. He gives life and deals death. Therefore believe in Allah and His unlettered244 Messenger Prophet who himself believes in Allah and His words. And obey him, haply you will be (rightly) guided.'
(7:159) And, of the people of Musa, there are some who guide to the truth and by it they judge.245
(7:160) And We cut them up into twelve246 nation tribes. And We revealed to Musa when his people sought water from him that, ‘you strike the rock with your staff.' And lo, gushed forth therefrom twelve springs. Every people knew their watering place. And We hung upon them the clouds, and sent down upon them Mann and the quails? ‘Eat of the good things that We have provided you. And they wronged Us not, but rather, they were wronging themselves.
(7:161) And when they were told, ‘Dwell in this town and eat from wheresoever you will, and say, "Hittatun," and enter at the gate prostrating. We shall forgive you your sins, (and) increase (the rewards of) those who excel.'
(7:162) But those of them who transgressed, substituted the word with other than that they were told. So We sent upon them a scourge from the heaven for their (repeated) transgressions.247
243. With regard to the universality of the Prophet the following hadith can be quoted:
أُعْطِيتُ خَمْسًا لَمْ يُعْطَهُنَّ أَحَدٌ قَبْلِى : نُصِرْتُ بِالرُّعْبِ مَسِيرَةَ شَهْرٍ ، وَجُعِلَتْ لِىَ الأَرْضُ مَسْجِدًا وَطَهُورًا ، فَأَيُّمَا رَجُلٍ مِنْ أُمَّتِى أَدْرَكَتْهُ الصَّلاَةُ فَلْيُصَلِّ ، وَأُحِلَّتْ لِىَ الْغَنَائِمُ وَلَمْ تَحِلَّ لأَحَدٍ قَبْلِى ، وَأُعْطِيتُ الشَّفَاعَةَ ، وَكَانَ النَّبِىُّ يُبْعَثُ إِلَى قَوْمِهِ خَاصَّةً وَبُعِثْتُ إِلَى النَّاسِ عَامَّةً
"I have been bestowed with five things that no Prophet was bestowed before me. (i) I have been helped with awe from the distance of a month. (ii) The whole of the earth has been declared clean for me. Therefore, wherever a man might be, he can pray right there when the time arrives. (iii) War spoils have been made lawful unto me. They were unlawful before me unto everyone. (iv) I have been gifted with the (general) ‘Intercession.' Finally, (v) Prophets before me used to be sent to their own people. I have been sent to the entire humankind" (Razi).
Ibn Kathir adds: The above report is in the Sahihayn narrated by Jabir b. `Abdullah. Another hadith of Muslim says:
وَالَّذِى نَفْسُ مُحَمَّدٍ بِيَدِهِ لاَ يَسْمَعُ بِى أَحَدٌ مِنْ هَذِهِ الأُمَّةِ يَهُودِىٌّ وَلاَ نَصْرَانِىٌّ ثُمَّ يَمُوتُ وَلَمْ يُؤْمِنْ بِالَّذِى أُرْسِلْتُ بِهِ إِلاَّ كَانَ مِنْ أَصْحَابِ النَّارِ
By Him in whose hand is my soul, no Jew nor Christian of this Ummah will hear of me and die off, without believing in what I have brought, but he will be a companion of the Fire."
Sayyid Qutb writes, in effect: This verse in which the Prophet (saws) has been ordered to confront the whole of the mankind with his message, belongs to a chapter that is wholly Makkan. It thus confronts those dilettantes of the Western world who allege that the Prophet initially intended no more than to seize power from the Makkans. It was only when he had subdued the Makkans that he thought of extending his power to the rest of the Arabian Peninsula. Eventually, it was only after his successes in the previous ventures that he began to dream of extending his domain over the rest of the world. This allegation is one of the several slanders that they hurled against the Prophet and the universal message that he brought.
244. The repetition of the epithet "the unlettered" seems to be to emphasize that he remained unlettered to the end (Au.).
245. The allusion by these words could be to those Jews who believed in `Isa (asws) when he appeared as well as those who believed in Prophet Muhammad at his advent (Razi).
246. The break has been placed at this point following the explanation of Ibn Jarir of the word "asbat" being in plural and the figure "ithnatay `ashara" feminine.
247. For an explanation of this passage, see surah al Baqarah of this work, notes 137 144 (verses 160 162).