Al-Jalalayn

Al-Jalalayn — Al-Jalalayn

Verily My signs in the Qur’ān used to be recited to you but you used to take to your heels falling back in retreat

Al-Jalalayn — Al-Jalalayn

disdainful of embracing faith because of it that is because of the Sacred House or the Meccan Sanctuary and their being inhabitants thereof secure in contrast to the situation with all other peoples in their hometowns while in your night sessions sāmiran is a circumstantial qualifier in other words they come together to converse at night around the Sacred House you talked nonsense’ if read as tahjurūna the third form from hajara means while ‘you disregarded’ the Qur’ān; but if read as the fourth form tuhjirūna from ahjara it means while ‘you speak falsehood’ about the Prophet and the Qur’ān.

Al-Jalalayn — Al-Jalalayn

God exalted be He says Have they not contemplated yaddabbarū should actually be yatadabbarū but the tā’ has been assimilated with the dāl the discourse namely the Qur’ān that is proof of the Prophet’s sincerity or has there come upon them that which has not come upon their forefathers?

Al-Jalalayn — Al-Jalalayn

Or is it that they do not recognise their own Messenger and so they reject him?

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Or do they say ‘There is a madness in him’? — this interrogative is meant as an affirmation of the truth of the Prophet’s sincerity and of the fact that messengers did come to past communities and of the fact that they do indeed recognise their Messenger to be truthful and trustworthy and of the fact that there is no madness in him. Nay bal is for transition he has brought them the truth namely the Qur’ān that comprises affirmations of the Oneness of God and the Laws of Islam; but most of them are averse to the truth.