Al-Jalalayn
Al-Jalalayn
القمر
Al-Qamar
55 versets
فَكَيۡفَ كَانَ عَذَابِي وَنُذُرِ
Comment furent Mon châtiment et Mes avertissements
Al-Jalalayn — Al-Jalalayn
How dreadful then were My chastisement and My warnings? this is an interrogative meant as an affirmative; kayfa ‘how’ is the predicate of kāna ‘was’ and it is here being used to inquire about a ‘state’; the intention is to prompt those who are being addressed to affirm the fact that God’s chastisement of those who denied Noah was fully deserved.
وَلَقَدۡ يَسَّرۡنَا ٱلۡقُرۡءَانَ لِلذِّكۡرِ فَهَلۡ مِن مُّدَّكِرٖ
En effet, Nous avons rendu le Coran facile pour la méditation. Y a-t-il quelqu'un pour réfléchir
Al-Jalalayn — Al-Jalalayn
And verily We have made the Qur’ān easy to remember We have facilitated its memorisation and disposed it to serve as a source of remembrance. So is there anyone who remember? anyone who will be admonished by it and memorise it? the interrogative here is intended as an imperative in other words memorise it and be admonished by it; none of God’s scriptures is memorised by heart other than it the Qur’ān.
كَذَّبَتۡ عَادٞ فَكَيۡفَ كَانَ عَذَابِي وَنُذُرِ
Les 'Aad ont traité de menteur (leur Messager). Comment furent Mon châtiment et Mes avertissements
Al-Jalalayn — Al-Jalalayn
‘Ād denied their prophet Hūd and so they were chastised. How then were My chastisement and My warnings? how then was My warning them of the chastisement before it was sent down? In other words it was justified and He explains this chastisement by saying
إِنَّآ أَرۡسَلۡنَا عَلَيۡهِمۡ رِيحٗا صَرۡصَرٗا فِي يَوۡمِ نَحۡسٖ مُّسۡتَمِرّٖ
Nous avons envoyé contre eux un vent violent et glacial, en un jour néfaste et interminable
Al-Jalalayn — Al-Jalalayn
Indeed We unleashed upon them a clamorous wind intensely noisy on a day of prolonged ill fortune nahsin mustamirr means either one of continuous ill fortune or one of severe ill fortune — and this was the last Wednesday of the month —
تَنزِعُ ٱلنَّاسَ كَأَنَّهُمۡ أَعۡجَازُ نَخۡلٖ مُّنقَعِرٖ
il arrachait les gens comme des souches de palmiers déracinés
Al-Jalalayn — Al-Jalalayn
tearing people away wrenching them from the holes in the ground in which they had been embedded and flinging them down to the ground head first thereby crushing their necks and severing their heads from their bodies as if they were while lying in this mentioned state trunks of uprooted palm-trees severed and thrown on the ground — they are likened to palm-trees because of their tallness nakhlun ‘palm-trees’ is masculine here but feminine in sūrat al-Hāqqa nakhlun khāwiya ‘fallen down or hollow palm-trees’ Q. 697 in order to harmonise with the end-rhyme of the verses in both instances.