Al-Jalalayn

Al-Jalalayn — Al-Jalalayn

So God made them taste disgrace abasement and humiliation in the way of being transformed into swine and being killed and otherwise in the life of this world. And the chastisement of the Hereafter will surely be greater had they that is the deniers known the nature of the chastisement thereof they would not have denied.

Al-Jalalayn — Al-Jalalayn

And verily We have struck coined for mankind in this Qur’ān every kind of similitude that perhaps they may remember that perhaps they may be admonished —

Al-Jalalayn — Al-Jalalayn

an Arabic Qur’ān qur’ānan ‘arabiyyan a circumstantial qualifier for emphasis without any deviation that is without any contradiction or variance that perhaps they may guard themselves against disbelief.

Al-Jalalayn — Al-Jalalayn

God strikes for the idolater and the believer in God’s Oneness a similitude a man rajulan substitutes for mathalan ‘a similitude’ shared by several masters quarrelling disputing ill-mannered and a man belonging exclusively to one man. Are the two equal in comparison? mathalan for specification in other words the slave of many masters is not the same as the slave of a single person. For in the case of the former if all of his masters were to demand his service simultaneously he would be confused as to whom of them he should serve — which is the similitude of the idolater; the latter the slave of one is the similitude of the one who believes in the One God. Praise be to God! alone. Nay but most of them that is the people of Mecca do not know the chastisement in which they will end up and so they associate others with God.

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You — an address to the Prophet s — will indeed die and they too will indeed die and so there is no satisfaction to be gained from another’s death this was revealed because they kept waiting for the Prophet s to die.