Al-Jalalayn

Al-Jalalayn — Al-Jalalayn

Or do they have partners? who agree with them in this claim of theirs and able to guarantee it for them; if that is the case Then let them produce their partners those who will guarantee this for them if they are truthful.

Al-Jalalayn — Al-Jalalayn

Mention the day when the shank is bared an expression denoting the severity of the predicament during the reckoning and the requital on the Day of Resurrection one says kashafati’l-harbu ‘an sāqin ‘the war has bared its shank’ to mean that it has intensified and they are summoned to prostrate themselves as a test of their faith but they will not be able to do so — their backs will become as stiff as a brick wall.

Al-Jalalayn — Al-Jalalayn

With humbled khāshi‘atan is a circumstantial qualifier referring to the person of the verb yud‘awna ‘they are summoned’ that is to say with abject gazes which they do not raise they will be overcast enveloped by abasement; for they had indeed been summoned in this world to prostrate themselves while they were yet sound but they never used to do it by the fact that they never performed prayer.

Al-Jalalayn — Al-Jalalayn

So leave Me to deal with those who deny this discourse — the Qur’ān. We will draw them on by degrees We will seize them little by little whence they do not know.

Al-Jalalayn — Al-Jalalayn

And I will grant them respite; for assuredly My devising is firm My devising is severe and cannot be withstood.