{ "number": 47, "slug": "muhammad", "name": "Muhammad", "arabicName": "محمد", "meaning": "Muhammad", "period": "Madinan", "tagline": "Faith made visible in steadfastness and generosity", "overview": "This surah addresses a community facing armed conflict, divided loyalties, and costly responsibilities. Its movement from battle and captivity to reflective listening, family ties, and generosity asks whether professed faith becomes dependable conduct. The Garden's abundance stands beside warnings against obstruction, concealed hostility, and attachment to passing wealth.", "sources": [ { "title": "Arabic text · quranjson (MIT)", "url": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/semarketir/quranjson/master/source/surah/surah_47.json" }, { "title": "Sahih International · English translation (AlQuran Cloud)", "url": "https://alquran.cloud/quran/en.sahih" }, { "title": "Word glosses · Quranic Arabic Corpus (GPL-3.0)", "url": "https://corpus.quran.com/wordbyword.jsp?chapter=47&verse=1" }, { "title": "Word glosses · Quranic Arabic Corpus (GPL-3.0)", "url": "https://corpus.quran.com/wordbyword.jsp?chapter=47&verse=10" }, { "title": "Word glosses · Quranic Arabic Corpus (GPL-3.0)", "url": "https://corpus.quran.com/wordbyword.jsp?chapter=47&verse=12" }, { "title": "Word glosses · Quranic Arabic Corpus (GPL-3.0)", "url": "https://corpus.quran.com/wordbyword.jsp?chapter=47&verse=14" }, { "title": "Word glosses · Quranic Arabic Corpus (GPL-3.0)", "url": "https://corpus.quran.com/wordbyword.jsp?chapter=47&verse=3" }, { "title": "Word glosses · Quranic Arabic Corpus (GPL-3.0)", "url": "https://corpus.quran.com/wordbyword.jsp?chapter=47&verse=4" }, { "title": "Word glosses · Quranic Arabic Corpus (GPL-3.0)", "url": "https://corpus.quran.com/wordbyword.jsp?chapter=47&verse=8" }, { "title": "Word glosses · Quranic Arabic Corpus (GPL-3.0)", "url": "https://corpus.quran.com/wordbyword.jsp?chapter=47&verse=15" }, { "title": "Word glosses · Quranic Arabic Corpus (GPL-3.0)", "url": "https://corpus.quran.com/wordbyword.jsp?chapter=47&verse=16" }, { "title": "Word glosses · Quranic Arabic Corpus (GPL-3.0)", "url": "https://corpus.quran.com/wordbyword.jsp?chapter=47&verse=18" }, { "title": "Word glosses · Quranic Arabic Corpus (GPL-3.0)", "url": "https://corpus.quran.com/wordbyword.jsp?chapter=47&verse=20" }, { "title": "Word glosses · Quranic Arabic Corpus (GPL-3.0)", "url": "https://corpus.quran.com/wordbyword.jsp?chapter=47&verse=34" }, { "title": "Word glosses · Quranic Arabic Corpus (GPL-3.0)", "url": "https://corpus.quran.com/wordbyword.jsp?chapter=47&verse=36" }, { "title": "Word glosses · Quranic Arabic Corpus (GPL-3.0)", "url": "https://corpus.quran.com/wordbyword.jsp?chapter=47&verse=38" }, { "title": "Word glosses · Quranic Arabic Corpus (GPL-3.0)", "url": "https://corpus.quran.com/wordbyword.jsp?chapter=47&verse=29" }, { "title": "Word glosses · Quranic Arabic Corpus (GPL-3.0)", "url": "https://corpus.quran.com/wordbyword.jsp?chapter=47&verse=32" }, { "title": "Word glosses · Quranic Arabic Corpus (GPL-3.0)", "url": "https://corpus.quran.com/wordbyword.jsp?chapter=47&verse=22" }, { "title": "Word glosses · Quranic Arabic Corpus (GPL-3.0)", "url": "https://corpus.quran.com/wordbyword.jsp?chapter=47&verse=25" }, { "title": "Word glosses · Quranic Arabic Corpus (GPL-3.0)", "url": "https://corpus.quran.com/wordbyword.jsp?chapter=47&verse=27" }, { "title": "Surah introduction · Quran.com", "url": "https://quran.com/muhammad/info" }, { "title": "Battle and captives · Ibn Kathir", "url": "https://quran.com/47:4/tafsirs/en-tafisr-ibn-kathir" }, { "title": "Historical period boundaries · Britannica 1911", "url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/Mahomet" } ], "titles": [ "Actions and obstruction", "Faith that repairs a life", "Truth and its opposite", "Battle, captivity, and release", "Guidance beyond loss", "A promised home", "A firm footing", "Effort without a sound foundation", "Rejecting what is revealed", "Travel with historical attention", "The meaning of protection", "Beyond immediate appetite", "A city that expelled its messenger", "Proof or pleasing illusion", "Rivers and forgiveness", "Hearing without receiving", "Guidance that grows", "The danger of postponement", "Knowledge, forgiveness, and inclusion", "When commitment becomes demanding", "A truthful response", "Power and family ties", "Refusing to hear and see", "Unlocking attention", "Turning back after clarity", "Promises made in secret", "An encounter beyond concealment", "What conduct seeks to please", "Resentment brought to light", "Words reveal a direction", "Steadfastness under examination", "Opposition cannot injure Allah", "Protecting the value of action", "The finality of a chosen course", "Resolve within the conflict", "The passing attraction of possessions", "What a demand can uncover", "Generosity and dependence" ], "notes": [ "The opening joins rejection with actively obstructing the way of Allah. It asks readers to examine what their efforts serve. Activity, influence, and apparent achievement do not by themselves establish that a life has a sound moral direction.", "Belief is joined to good work and acceptance of the revelation given to Muhammad. The promise concerns forgiveness and the repair of a person's condition, placing inward trust and outward conduct together at the beginning of the chapter.", "The contrast between the two groups is explained through what they follow. This invites attention to the foundations of choices rather than their outward impressiveness. The examples are offered for human reflection, not merely as labels for distant people.", "This verse addresses combat and its aftermath, explicitly naming battle, captives, release through grace or ransom, and war's ending. Read those stages together. Its battlefield language is not an instruction to attack people simply because they hold another religion.", "The brief promise continues the preceding reference to those killed in Allah's cause. Guidance and the improvement of their condition answer the fear that violent loss makes faithful effort meaningless. The verse belongs to that connected sequence of consolation.", "The Garden completes the preceding promises of guidance and restoration. The wording presents entry into a home made known to its recipients, giving the passage a movement from conflict and loss toward belonging, welcome, and lasting security.", "The believers are addressed directly and called to support Allah's cause. Divine help and steadiness answer that commitment. For reflection, the image of firm feet asks whether conviction remains dependable when obedience becomes costly or circumstances become difficult.", "The warning returns to the collapse of deeds, echoing the opening verse. Read within the chapter's conflict with those obstructing revelation, it challenges confidence in power and activity that disregard truth, rather than celebrating another person's suffering.", "The verse identifies aversion to revelation as the reason for the preceding warning. It shifts attention from the visible result to the underlying response, inviting readers to consider whether resistance arises from evidence or from disliking a demanding message.", "Travel becomes an invitation to notice the remains and consequences of earlier societies. The verse supplies no archaeological itinerary or exact dates. Its purpose is moral attention: strength and prosperity do not make a community immune to accountability.", "Allah is named as the believers' protecting patron. In the surrounding passage, this assurance does not erase struggle or loss; it changes how those experiences are understood. The strongest support is placed beyond temporary alliances and visible worldly advantage.", "Gardens and rivers contrast with a life reduced to present consumption. The comparison asks what directs desire and what lies beyond immediate comfort. It is an ethical warning about heedlessness, not permission to treat other human beings as animals.", "The address recalls the messenger's expulsion and places his opponents' strength beside that of earlier towns. The verse does not name those towns or date their destruction. Exile and apparent vulnerability are set within a larger judgment of power.", "A clear proof is contrasted with wrongdoing made attractive to its practitioners. The question turns the reader toward the reliability of moral perception: something can feel persuasive because it satisfies desire, even when its apparent beauty conceals harm.", "The Garden is described through pure water, enduring milk, wine, honey, and fruit, with forgiveness at the center of its gifts. These are promises of the unseen; an illustration can evoke abundance without claiming to reproduce its actual form.", "Some listeners leave the messenger's presence asking what he has just said. The problem is not simply sound reaching the ear, but an unwillingness to receive its meaning. The passage invites honest attention rather than quick judgments about others' hearts.", "Those who respond rightly receive further guidance and protection against wrongdoing. The verse offers a hopeful counterpart to distracted listening: understanding can deepen through practice. Receiving a reminder well may prepare a person to receive the next one more carefully.", "The Hour is presented as capable of arriving suddenly, when belated recognition cannot replace earlier responsiveness. The mention of its beginnings is not a timetable for calculation. The practical question is whether a warning is being continually deferred.", "The declaration of Allah's oneness is joined to asking forgiveness, including for believing women and men. Knowledge therefore leads into humility and prayer. The closing reminder places both restless activity and quiet rest within the reach of divine knowledge.", "The desire for a decisive revelation encounters the fear produced when fighting is mentioned. The verse examines a gap between requesting direction and accepting its burdens, within the community's historical conflict. It does not turn ordinary anxiety into a diagnosis.", "Obedience, decent speech, and sincerity are offered as the better response when a matter is settled. The emphasis is practical and relational: words should support dependable conduct. Reflection can begin with whether enthusiasm survives the arrival of responsibility.", "The warning joins public corruption with the breaking of kinship bonds. These harms belong together because ambition can damage both society and intimate relationships. The verse asks what people might do when given opportunity, authority, or freedom from restraint.", "The language of deafness and blindness continues the moral warning against corruption and severed relationships. Here it concerns refusal of guidance, not the worth of people with sensory disabilities. The passage presses the seriousness of choices that close understanding.", "The question calls for thoughtful engagement with the Quran and pictures obstructed understanding as a locked heart. Reflection requires more than passing over words. Readers are invited to slow down, connect meanings, and allow the text to question settled habits.", "The verse describes retreat after guidance has become apparent and links it to satanic enticement. Its concern is moral reversal rather than honest inquiry. The warning invites scrutiny of the flattering excuses that can make abandonment of responsibility appear harmless.", "A concealed promise of partial obedience to opponents of revelation exposes divided loyalty within this conflict. Divine knowledge reaches the private conversation. The reader's reflection concerns integrity between public commitments and hidden agreements, not suspicion directed at unfamiliar people.", "The account of angels gathering people at death belongs to the unseen. It intensifies the warning that secret conduct will not remain hidden indefinitely. This scene should be read as revelation's solemn warning, without invented visual details or angelic portraits.", "The verse connects the preceding warning to pursuing what angers Allah while resisting what pleases Him. The loss of deeds recalls the chapter's opening. It asks whether the desired approval behind an action is consistent with the faith it professes.", "Those harboring hidden hostility are challenged about the possibility of concealing it from Allah. The verse addresses the chapter's particular hypocritical opposition. It should encourage self examination, not a claim that readers can identify another person's secret spiritual condition.", "The messenger is told that concealed opposition may become recognizable through the tone and substance of speech. The final clause returns full knowledge of deeds to Allah. Human discernment remains distinct from a claim to complete knowledge of hearts.", "Testing brings striving and patience into the open. The verse turns claimed commitment into something lived across difficulty, delay, and competing demands. Its language of knowing is read here alongside the chapter's repeated affirmation that Allah already knows hidden conduct.", "Those obstructing the way and opposing the messenger after guidance are told that their conduct cannot harm Allah. The contrast separates divine independence from human consequences. Their apparent struggle against revelation ultimately damages the value of their own efforts.", "Believers are called to obedience and warned against making their own deeds empty. The address turns from opponents to the community itself. Faithful identity does not remove the need to preserve sincerity, responsibility, and continuity in what one does.", "The warning concerns those who persist in rejection and obstruction until death. It describes the gravity of a completed course, not permission to pronounce the ultimate fate of living individuals. The surrounding calls to obedience still address people able to respond.", "This instruction to maintain resolve belongs to the surah's wartime address and its assurance of divine support. It should not be detached into an unlimited prohibition of peace. The verse closes by protecting the worth and reward of faithful action.", "Worldly life is compared to play and diversion, while faith and restraint receive lasting reward. The reference to wealth prepares the closing appeal for generosity. Possessions are tested by the purposes they serve, rather than simply by their amount.", "The imagined demand for possessions exposes how tightly people may cling to wealth. Resentment can emerge when generosity moves from an attractive idea to a real cost. The verse prepares an honest examination of attachment before the final appeal.", "The chapter ends with a call to give and a reminder that withholding harms the giver's own soul. Allah needs nothing from the community. Its role is a responsibility, and refusing that responsibility does not make the divine purpose dependent on it." ], "sections": [ { "start": 1, "end": 11, "title": "Faith amid conflict", "summary": "The opening contrasts the foundations of action, addresses battle and captivity, and promises guidance beyond loss.", "reflection": "Read the stages of battle, captivity, and release together before drawing conclusions about the passage." }, { "start": 12, "end": 19, "title": "Rivers, listening, and forgiveness", "summary": "The promised Garden contrasts with immediate appetite, while attentive listening opens into growing guidance.", "reflection": "What changes when hearing a reminder becomes an invitation to act?" }, { "start": 20, "end": 30, "title": "When words are tested", "summary": "Fear, concealed agreements, corruption, and severed family ties expose the distance between profession and conduct.", "reflection": "Which private commitments need to become consistent with your public words?" }, { "start": 31, "end": 38, "title": "Steadfastness and an open hand", "summary": "Testing reveals patience, and the final appeal for generosity confronts the illusion of self sufficiency.", "reflection": "What does giving reveal about the things on which you depend?" } ], "timeline": [ { "title": "622–632 CE · Madinan period boundaries", "year": 622, "endYear": 632, "body": "The chapter is classified as Madinan. These period boundaries mark the Hijrah and the end of the Prophet's lifetime, not a precise date for the surah or each of its verses.", "source": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/Mahomet" }, { "title": "A community facing armed opposition", "year": null, "body": "The chapter addresses active conflict and internal hesitation. Commentary proposes settings around early Madinan battles, but this reader does not assign the whole surah to one verified battlefield or day.", "source": "https://quran.com/muhammad/info" }, { "title": "From warfare to the ethics of giving", "year": null, "body": "The textual sequence ends with generosity and human dependence on Allah. This is the order of the surah's argument, not a separately dated historical event.", "source": "https://sacred-texts.com/isl/pick/047.htm" } ], "places": [ { "id": "madinah", "name": "Madinah · broad community setting", "lat": 24.4672, "lon": 39.6111, "body": "Madinan classification places the chapter within the Prophet's community after the Hijrah. The city marker is regional context; it does not locate a specific recitation, camp, or battle.", "source": "https://quran.com/muhammad/info", "image": 0 }, { "id": "expelled-town", "name": "The township that expelled the messenger", "body": "Verse 13 recalls the messenger's expulsion from his township. It compares that experience with earlier, stronger settlements, without supplying an archaeological list of those destroyed towns.", "source": "https://sacred-texts.com/isl/pick/047.htm", "image": 1 }, { "id": "garden", "name": "The promised Garden · beyond a terrestrial map", "body": "Verse 15 describes rivers, fruit, and forgiveness. Garden artwork is an imaginative response to scriptural imagery, not a surveyed place or a claim to reveal the unseen.", "source": "https://sacred-texts.com/isl/pick/047.htm", "image": 1 } ], "people": [ { "id": "muhammad", "title": "Muhammad · recipient of revelation", "body": "Named in verse 2, the messenger receives instructions about public responsibility, forgiveness, and perseverance. This reader represents his setting through landscape and objects, without a portrait.", "verse": 2, "url": "https://sacred-texts.com/isl/pick/047.htm", "label": "Read the chapter" }, { "id": "believers", "title": "Believers under pressure", "body": "They are called to steadiness, thoughtful reading, obedience, and generosity. The address includes believing women and men in the prayer for forgiveness at verse 19.", "verse": 19, "url": "https://sacred-texts.com/isl/pick/047.htm" }, { "id": "captives", "title": "Captives after battle", "body": "Verse 4 explicitly turns from combat to secured captives and then release through grace or ransom. Ibn Kathir discusses the passage as a wartime instruction.", "verse": 4, "url": "https://quran.com/47:4/tafsirs/en-tafisr-ibn-kathir" }, { "id": "divided-loyalties", "title": "Those concealing opposition", "body": "The surah exposes secret hostility within its historical community. These descriptions do not license certainty about the inner faith of present day individuals.", "verse": 29, "url": "https://sacred-texts.com/isl/pick/047.htm" } ], "history": [ { "title": "Classification and chronological limits", "body": "Quran.com identifies the chapter as Madinan. Suggested associations with Badr or Uhud belong to commentary; the verses themselves do not date the entire chapter to either battle.", "source": "https://quran.com/muhammad/info" }, { "title": "Reading the battle verse in sequence", "body": "Ibn Kathir treats verse 4 as combat followed by captivity and release. Its stages should remain together, and a short reader note cannot substitute for the larger interpretive and legal tradition.", "source": "https://quran.com/47:4/tafsirs/en-tafisr-ibn-kathir" }, { "title": "Power, kinship, and responsibility", "body": "Verses 22–24 connect social corruption and broken family ties with resistance to reflection. This ethical concern forms part of the surah's treatment of public commitment, alongside its military setting.", "source": "https://sacred-texts.com/isl/pick/047.htm" }, { "title": "Editorial reflections", "body": "The verse notes are original close readings alongside Pickthall's public domain translation. Historical reports are identified separately; illustrations evoke settings and promises without depicting prophets, angels, or the divine.", "source": "https://sacred-texts.com/isl/pick/047.htm" } ], "revelationNote": "Madinan. A broad 622–632 CE period is shown for orientation only. Reports connecting passages with early Madinan conflict do not establish a single exact revelation date for all 38 verses.", "verses": [ { "n": 1, "arabic": "ٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا۟ وَصَدُّوا۟ عَن سَبِيلِ ٱللَّهِ أَضَلَّ أَعْمَٰلَهُمْ", "translation": "Those who disbelieve and avert [people] from the way of Allah - He will waste their deeds." }, { "n": 2, "arabic": "وَٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوا۟ وَعَمِلُوا۟ ٱلصَّٰلِحَٰتِ وَءَامَنُوا۟ بِمَا نُزِّلَ عَلَىٰ مُحَمَّدٍۢ وَهُوَ ٱلْحَقُّ مِن رَّبِّهِمْ ۙ كَفَّرَ عَنْهُمْ سَيِّـَٔاتِهِمْ وَأَصْلَحَ بَالَهُمْ", "translation": "And those who believe and do righteous deeds and believe in what has been sent down upon Muhammad - and it is the truth from their Lord - He will remove from them their misdeeds and amend their condition." }, { "n": 3, "arabic": "ذَٰلِكَ بِأَنَّ ٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا۟ ٱتَّبَعُوا۟ ٱلْبَٰطِلَ وَأَنَّ ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوا۟ ٱتَّبَعُوا۟ ٱلْحَقَّ مِن رَّبِّهِمْ ۚ كَذَٰلِكَ يَضْرِبُ ٱللَّهُ لِلنَّاسِ أَمْثَٰلَهُمْ", "translation": "That is because those who disbelieve follow falsehood, and those who believe follow the truth from their Lord. Thus does Allah present to the people their comparisons." }, { "n": 4, "arabic": "فَإِذَا لَقِيتُمُ ٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا۟ فَضَرْبَ ٱلرِّقَابِ حَتَّىٰٓ إِذَآ أَثْخَنتُمُوهُمْ فَشُدُّوا۟ ٱلْوَثَاقَ فَإِمَّا مَنًّۢا بَعْدُ وَإِمَّا فِدَآءً حَتَّىٰ تَضَعَ ٱلْحَرْبُ أَوْزَارَهَا ۚ ذَٰلِكَ وَلَوْ يَشَآءُ ٱللَّهُ لَٱنتَصَرَ مِنْهُمْ وَلَٰكِن لِّيَبْلُوَا۟ بَعْضَكُم بِبَعْضٍۢ ۗ وَٱلَّذِينَ قُتِلُوا۟ فِى سَبِيلِ ٱللَّهِ فَلَن يُضِلَّ أَعْمَٰلَهُمْ", "translation": "So when you meet those who disbelieve [in battle], strike [their] necks until, when you have inflicted slaughter upon them, then secure their bonds, and either [confer] favor afterwards or ransom [them] until the war lays down its burdens. That [is the command]. And if Allah had willed, He could have taken vengeance upon them [Himself], but [He ordered armed struggle] to test some of you by means of others. And those who are killed in the cause of Allah - never will He waste their deeds." }, { "n": 5, "arabic": "سَيَهْدِيهِمْ وَيُصْلِحُ بَالَهُمْ", "translation": "He will guide them and amend their condition" }, { "n": 6, "arabic": "وَيُدْخِلُهُمُ ٱلْجَنَّةَ عَرَّفَهَا لَهُمْ", "translation": "And admit them to Paradise, which He has made known to them." }, { "n": 7, "arabic": "يَٰٓأَيُّهَا ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوٓا۟ إِن تَنصُرُوا۟ ٱللَّهَ يَنصُرْكُمْ وَيُثَبِّتْ أَقْدَامَكُمْ", "translation": "O you who have believed, if you support Allah, He will support you and plant firmly your feet." }, { "n": 8, "arabic": "وَٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا۟ فَتَعْسًۭا لَّهُمْ وَأَضَلَّ أَعْمَٰلَهُمْ", "translation": "But those who disbelieve - for them is misery, and He will waste their deeds." }, { "n": 9, "arabic": "ذَٰلِكَ بِأَنَّهُمْ كَرِهُوا۟ مَآ أَنزَلَ ٱللَّهُ فَأَحْبَطَ أَعْمَٰلَهُمْ", "translation": "That is because they disliked what Allah revealed, so He rendered worthless their deeds." }, { "n": 10, "arabic": "۞ أَفَلَمْ يَسِيرُوا۟ فِى ٱلْأَرْضِ فَيَنظُرُوا۟ كَيْفَ كَانَ عَٰقِبَةُ ٱلَّذِينَ مِن قَبْلِهِمْ ۚ دَمَّرَ ٱللَّهُ عَلَيْهِمْ ۖ وَلِلْكَٰفِرِينَ أَمْثَٰلُهَا", "translation": "Have they not traveled through the land and seen how was the end of those before them? Allah destroyed [everything] over them, and for the disbelievers is something comparable." }, { "n": 11, "arabic": "ذَٰلِكَ بِأَنَّ ٱللَّهَ مَوْلَى ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوا۟ وَأَنَّ ٱلْكَٰفِرِينَ لَا مَوْلَىٰ لَهُمْ", "translation": "That is because Allah is the protector of those who have believed and because the disbelievers have no protector." }, { "n": 12, "arabic": "إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ يُدْخِلُ ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوا۟ وَعَمِلُوا۟ ٱلصَّٰلِحَٰتِ جَنَّٰتٍۢ تَجْرِى مِن تَحْتِهَا ٱلْأَنْهَٰرُ ۖ وَٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا۟ يَتَمَتَّعُونَ وَيَأْكُلُونَ كَمَا تَأْكُلُ ٱلْأَنْعَٰمُ وَٱلنَّارُ مَثْوًۭى لَّهُمْ", "translation": "Indeed, Allah will admit those who have believed and done righteous deeds to gardens beneath which rivers flow, but those who disbelieve enjoy themselves and eat as grazing livestock eat, and the Fire will be a residence for them." }, { "n": 13, "arabic": "وَكَأَيِّن مِّن قَرْيَةٍ هِىَ أَشَدُّ قُوَّةًۭ مِّن قَرْيَتِكَ ٱلَّتِىٓ أَخْرَجَتْكَ أَهْلَكْنَٰهُمْ فَلَا نَاصِرَ لَهُمْ", "translation": "And how many a city was stronger than your city [Makkah] which drove you out? We destroyed them; and there was no helper for them." }, { "n": 14, "arabic": "أَفَمَن كَانَ عَلَىٰ بَيِّنَةٍۢ مِّن رَّبِّهِۦ كَمَن زُيِّنَ لَهُۥ سُوٓءُ عَمَلِهِۦ وَٱتَّبَعُوٓا۟ أَهْوَآءَهُم", "translation": "So is he who is on clear evidence from his Lord like him to whom the evil of his work has been made attractive and they follow their [own] desires?" }, { "n": 15, "arabic": "مَّثَلُ ٱلْجَنَّةِ ٱلَّتِى وُعِدَ ٱلْمُتَّقُونَ ۖ فِيهَآ أَنْهَٰرٌۭ مِّن مَّآءٍ غَيْرِ ءَاسِنٍۢ وَأَنْهَٰرٌۭ مِّن لَّبَنٍۢ لَّمْ يَتَغَيَّرْ طَعْمُهُۥ وَأَنْهَٰرٌۭ مِّنْ خَمْرٍۢ لَّذَّةٍۢ لِّلشَّٰرِبِينَ وَأَنْهَٰرٌۭ مِّنْ عَسَلٍۢ مُّصَفًّۭى ۖ وَلَهُمْ فِيهَا مِن كُلِّ ٱلثَّمَرَٰتِ وَمَغْفِرَةٌۭ مِّن رَّبِّهِمْ ۖ كَمَنْ هُوَ خَٰلِدٌۭ فِى ٱلنَّارِ وَسُقُوا۟ مَآءً حَمِيمًۭا فَقَطَّعَ أَمْعَآءَهُمْ", "translation": "Is the description of Paradise, which the righteous are promised, wherein are rivers of water unaltered, rivers of milk the taste of which never changes, rivers of wine delicious to those who drink, and rivers of purified honey, in which they will have from all [kinds of] fruits and forgiveness from their Lord, like [that of] those who abide eternally in the Fire and are given to drink scalding water that will sever their intestines?" }, { "n": 16, "arabic": "وَمِنْهُم مَّن يَسْتَمِعُ إِلَيْكَ حَتَّىٰٓ إِذَا خَرَجُوا۟ مِنْ عِندِكَ قَالُوا۟ لِلَّذِينَ أُوتُوا۟ ٱلْعِلْمَ مَاذَا قَالَ ءَانِفًا ۚ أُو۟لَٰٓئِكَ ٱلَّذِينَ طَبَعَ ٱللَّهُ عَلَىٰ قُلُوبِهِمْ وَٱتَّبَعُوٓا۟ أَهْوَآءَهُمْ", "translation": "And among them, [O Muhammad], are those who listen to you, until when they depart from you, they say to those who were given knowledge, \"What has he said just now?\" Those are the ones of whom Allah has sealed over their hearts and who have followed their [own] desires." }, { "n": 17, "arabic": "وَٱلَّذِينَ ٱهْتَدَوْا۟ زَادَهُمْ هُدًۭى وَءَاتَىٰهُمْ تَقْوَىٰهُمْ", "translation": "And those who are guided - He increases them in guidance and gives them their righteousness." }, { "n": 18, "arabic": "فَهَلْ يَنظُرُونَ إِلَّا ٱلسَّاعَةَ أَن تَأْتِيَهُم بَغْتَةًۭ ۖ فَقَدْ جَآءَ أَشْرَاطُهَا ۚ فَأَنَّىٰ لَهُمْ إِذَا جَآءَتْهُمْ ذِكْرَىٰهُمْ", "translation": "Then do they await except that the Hour should come upon them unexpectedly? But already there have come [some of] its indications. Then what good to them, when it has come, will be their remembrance?" }, { "n": 19, "arabic": "فَٱعْلَمْ أَنَّهُۥ لَآ إِلَٰهَ إِلَّا ٱللَّهُ وَٱسْتَغْفِرْ لِذَنۢبِكَ وَلِلْمُؤْمِنِينَ وَٱلْمُؤْمِنَٰتِ ۗ وَٱللَّهُ يَعْلَمُ مُتَقَلَّبَكُمْ وَمَثْوَىٰكُمْ", "translation": "So know, [O Muhammad], that there is no deity except Allah and ask forgiveness for your sin and for the believing men and believing women. And Allah knows of your movement and your resting place." }, { "n": 20, "arabic": "وَيَقُولُ ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوا۟ لَوْلَا نُزِّلَتْ سُورَةٌۭ ۖ فَإِذَآ أُنزِلَتْ سُورَةٌۭ مُّحْكَمَةٌۭ وَذُكِرَ فِيهَا ٱلْقِتَالُ ۙ رَأَيْتَ ٱلَّذِينَ فِى قُلُوبِهِم مَّرَضٌۭ يَنظُرُونَ إِلَيْكَ نَظَرَ ٱلْمَغْشِىِّ عَلَيْهِ مِنَ ٱلْمَوْتِ ۖ فَأَوْلَىٰ لَهُمْ", "translation": "Those who believe say, \"Why has a surah not been sent down? But when a precise surah is revealed and fighting is mentioned therein, you see those in whose hearts is hypocrisy looking at you with a look of one overcome by death. And more appropriate for them [would have been]" }, { "n": 21, "arabic": "طَاعَةٌۭ وَقَوْلٌۭ مَّعْرُوفٌۭ ۚ فَإِذَا عَزَمَ ٱلْأَمْرُ فَلَوْ صَدَقُوا۟ ٱللَّهَ لَكَانَ خَيْرًۭا لَّهُمْ", "translation": "Obedience and good words. And when the matter [of fighting] was determined, if they had been true to Allah, it would have been better for them." }, { "n": 22, "arabic": "فَهَلْ عَسَيْتُمْ إِن تَوَلَّيْتُمْ أَن تُفْسِدُوا۟ فِى ٱلْأَرْضِ وَتُقَطِّعُوٓا۟ أَرْحَامَكُمْ", "translation": "So would you perhaps, if you turned away, cause corruption on earth and sever your [ties of] relationship?" }, { "n": 23, "arabic": "أُو۟لَٰٓئِكَ ٱلَّذِينَ لَعَنَهُمُ ٱللَّهُ فَأَصَمَّهُمْ وَأَعْمَىٰٓ أَبْصَٰرَهُمْ", "translation": "Those [who do so] are the ones that Allah has cursed, so He deafened them and blinded their vision." }, { "n": 24, "arabic": "أَفَلَا يَتَدَبَّرُونَ ٱلْقُرْءَانَ أَمْ عَلَىٰ قُلُوبٍ أَقْفَالُهَآ", "translation": "Then do they not reflect upon the Qur'an, or are there locks upon [their] hearts?" }, { "n": 25, "arabic": "إِنَّ ٱلَّذِينَ ٱرْتَدُّوا۟ عَلَىٰٓ أَدْبَٰرِهِم مِّنۢ بَعْدِ مَا تَبَيَّنَ لَهُمُ ٱلْهُدَى ۙ ٱلشَّيْطَٰنُ سَوَّلَ لَهُمْ وَأَمْلَىٰ لَهُمْ", "translation": "Indeed, those who reverted back [to disbelief] after guidance had become clear to them - Satan enticed them and prolonged hope for them." }, { "n": 26, "arabic": "ذَٰلِكَ بِأَنَّهُمْ قَالُوا۟ لِلَّذِينَ كَرِهُوا۟ مَا نَزَّلَ ٱللَّهُ سَنُطِيعُكُمْ فِى بَعْضِ ٱلْأَمْرِ ۖ وَٱللَّهُ يَعْلَمُ إِسْرَارَهُمْ", "translation": "That is because they said to those who disliked what Allah sent down, \"We will obey you in part of the matter.\" And Allah knows what they conceal." }, { "n": 27, "arabic": "فَكَيْفَ إِذَا تَوَفَّتْهُمُ ٱلْمَلَٰٓئِكَةُ يَضْرِبُونَ وُجُوهَهُمْ وَأَدْبَٰرَهُمْ", "translation": "Then how [will it be] when the angels take them in death, striking their faces and their backs?" }, { "n": 28, "arabic": "ذَٰلِكَ بِأَنَّهُمُ ٱتَّبَعُوا۟ مَآ أَسْخَطَ ٱللَّهَ وَكَرِهُوا۟ رِضْوَٰنَهُۥ فَأَحْبَطَ أَعْمَٰلَهُمْ", "translation": "That is because they followed what angered Allah and disliked [what earns] His pleasure, so He rendered worthless their deeds." }, { "n": 29, "arabic": "أَمْ حَسِبَ ٱلَّذِينَ فِى قُلُوبِهِم مَّرَضٌ أَن لَّن يُخْرِجَ ٱللَّهُ أَضْغَٰنَهُمْ", "translation": "Or do those in whose hearts is disease think that Allah would never expose their [feelings of] hatred?" }, { "n": 30, "arabic": "وَلَوْ نَشَآءُ لَأَرَيْنَٰكَهُمْ فَلَعَرَفْتَهُم بِسِيمَٰهُمْ ۚ وَلَتَعْرِفَنَّهُمْ فِى لَحْنِ ٱلْقَوْلِ ۚ وَٱللَّهُ يَعْلَمُ أَعْمَٰلَكُمْ", "translation": "And if We willed, We could show them to you, and you would know them by their mark; but you will surely know them by the tone of [their] speech. And Allah knows your deeds." }, { "n": 31, "arabic": "وَلَنَبْلُوَنَّكُمْ حَتَّىٰ نَعْلَمَ ٱلْمُجَٰهِدِينَ مِنكُمْ وَٱلصَّٰبِرِينَ وَنَبْلُوَا۟ أَخْبَارَكُمْ", "translation": "And We will surely test you until We make evident those who strive among you [for the cause of Allah] and the patient, and We will test your affairs." }, { "n": 32, "arabic": "إِنَّ ٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا۟ وَصَدُّوا۟ عَن سَبِيلِ ٱللَّهِ وَشَآقُّوا۟ ٱلرَّسُولَ مِنۢ بَعْدِ مَا تَبَيَّنَ لَهُمُ ٱلْهُدَىٰ لَن يَضُرُّوا۟ ٱللَّهَ شَيْـًۭٔا وَسَيُحْبِطُ أَعْمَٰلَهُمْ", "translation": "Indeed, those who disbelieved and averted [people] from the path of Allah and opposed the Messenger after guidance had become clear to them - never will they harm Allah at all, and He will render worthless their deeds." }, { "n": 33, "arabic": "۞ يَٰٓأَيُّهَا ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوٓا۟ أَطِيعُوا۟ ٱللَّهَ وَأَطِيعُوا۟ ٱلرَّسُولَ وَلَا تُبْطِلُوٓا۟ أَعْمَٰلَكُمْ", "translation": "O you who have believed, obey Allah and obey the Messenger and do not invalidate your deeds." }, { "n": 34, "arabic": "إِنَّ ٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا۟ وَصَدُّوا۟ عَن سَبِيلِ ٱللَّهِ ثُمَّ مَاتُوا۟ وَهُمْ كُفَّارٌۭ فَلَن يَغْفِرَ ٱللَّهُ لَهُمْ", "translation": "Indeed, those who disbelieved and averted [people] from the path of Allah and then died while they were disbelievers - never will Allah forgive them." }, { "n": 35, "arabic": "فَلَا تَهِنُوا۟ وَتَدْعُوٓا۟ إِلَى ٱلسَّلْمِ وَأَنتُمُ ٱلْأَعْلَوْنَ وَٱللَّهُ مَعَكُمْ وَلَن يَتِرَكُمْ أَعْمَٰلَكُمْ", "translation": "So do not weaken and call for peace while you are superior; and Allah is with you and will never deprive you of [the reward of] your deeds." }, { "n": 36, "arabic": "إِنَّمَا ٱلْحَيَوٰةُ ٱلدُّنْيَا لَعِبٌۭ وَلَهْوٌۭ ۚ وَإِن تُؤْمِنُوا۟ وَتَتَّقُوا۟ يُؤْتِكُمْ أُجُورَكُمْ وَلَا يَسْـَٔلْكُمْ أَمْوَٰلَكُمْ", "translation": "[This] worldly life is only amusement and diversion. And if you believe and fear Allah, He will give you your rewards and not ask you for your properties." }, { "n": 37, "arabic": "إِن يَسْـَٔلْكُمُوهَا فَيُحْفِكُمْ تَبْخَلُوا۟ وَيُخْرِجْ أَضْغَٰنَكُمْ", "translation": "If He should ask you for them and press you, you would withhold, and He would expose your unwillingness." }, { "n": 38, "arabic": "هَٰٓأَنتُمْ هَٰٓؤُلَآءِ تُدْعَوْنَ لِتُنفِقُوا۟ فِى سَبِيلِ ٱللَّهِ فَمِنكُم مَّن يَبْخَلُ ۖ وَمَن يَبْخَلْ فَإِنَّمَا يَبْخَلُ عَن نَّفْسِهِۦ ۚ وَٱللَّهُ ٱلْغَنِىُّ وَأَنتُمُ ٱلْفُقَرَآءُ ۚ وَإِن تَتَوَلَّوْا۟ يَسْتَبْدِلْ قَوْمًا غَيْرَكُمْ ثُمَّ لَا يَكُونُوٓا۟ أَمْثَٰلَكُم", "translation": "Here you are - those invited to spend in the cause of Allah - but among you are those who withhold [out of greed]. And whoever withholds only withholds [benefit] from himself; and Allah is the Free of need, while you are the needy. 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"better", "for them." ], [ "Then would", "you perhaps,", "if", "you are given authority", "that", "you cause corruption", "in", "the earth", "and cut off", "your ties of kinship." ], [ "Those,", "(are) the ones", "Allah has cursed them,", "Allah has cursed them,", "so He made them deaf", "and blinded", "their vision." ], [ "Then do not", "they ponder", "(over) the Quran", "or", "upon", "(their) hearts", "(are) locks?" ], [ "Indeed,", "those who", "return", "on", "their backs", "after", "after", "what", "(has) become clear", "to them", "(of) the guidance,", "Shaitaan", "enticed", "[for] them", "and prolonged hope", "for them." ], [ "That", "(is) because they", "[they] said", "to those who", "hate", "what", "Allah has revealed,", "Allah has revealed,", "\"We will obey you", "in", "part", "(of) the matter.\"", "But Allah", "knows", "their secrets." ], [ "Then how,", "when", "take them in death", "the Angels,", "striking", "their faces", "and their backs?" ], [ "That", "(is) because they", "followed", "what", "angered", "Allah", "and hated", "His pleasure,", "so He made worthless", "their deeds." ], [ "Or do", "think", "those who", "in", "their hearts", "(is) a disease", "that", "never", "will Allah bring forth", "will Allah bring forth", "their hatred?" ], [ "And if", "We willed", "surely, We could show them to you", "and you would know them", "by their marks;", "but surely, you will know them", "by", "(the) tone", "(of their) speech.", "And Allah", "knows", "your deeds." ], [ "And surely We will test you", "until", "We make evident", "those who strive", "among you", "and the patient ones,", "and We will test", "your affairs." ], [ "Indeed,", "those who", "disbelieve", "and turn away", "from", "(the) way of Allah", "(the) way of Allah", "and oppose", "the Messenger", "after", "after", "[what]", "(has been) made clear", "to them", "the guidance,", "never", "will they harm", "Allah", "(in) anything,", "and He will make worthless", "their deeds." ], [ "O you who believe!", 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"withholds,", "then only", "he withholds", "from", "himself.", "But Allah", "(is) Free of need,", "while you", "(are) the needy.", "And if", "you turn away", "He will replace you", "(with) a people", "other than you,", "then", "not", "they will be", "(the) likes of you." ] ], "juz": 26 }