الطور
The Mount
Explanations are simplified from tafsirs by Ibn Kathir, Mufti Muhammad Shafi, and Maulana Wahiduddin Khan. Spot an inaccuracy? Let us know.
wa-alladhīna āmanū wa-ittabaʿathum dhurriyyatuhum biīmānin alḥaqnā bihim dhurriyyatahum wamā alatnāhum min ʿamalihim min shayin kullu im'ri-in bimā kasaba rahīnun
And those who believed and whose descendants followed them in faith - We will join with them their descendants, and We will not deprive them of anything of their deeds. Every person, for what he earned, is retained.
wa-amdadnāhum bifākihatin walaḥmin mimmā yashtahūna
And We will provide them with fruit and meat from whatever they desire.
yatanāzaʿūna fīhā kasan lā laghwun fīhā walā tathīmun
They will exchange with one another a cup [of wine] wherein [results] no ill speech or commission of sin.
wayaṭūfu ʿalayhim ghil'mānun lahum ka-annahum lu'lu-on maknūnun
There will circulate among them [servant] boys [especially] for them, as if they were pearls well-protected.
wa-aqbala baʿḍuhum ʿalā baʿḍin yatasāalūna
And they will approach one another, inquiring of each other.
qālū innā kunnā qablu fī ahlinā mush'fiqīna
They will say, "Indeed, we were previously among our people fearful [of displeasing Allāh].
famanna l-lahu ʿalaynā wawaqānā ʿadhāba l-samūmi
So Allāh conferred favor upon us and protected us from the punishment of the Scorching Fire.
innā kunnā min qablu nadʿūhu innahu huwa l-baru l-raḥīmu
Indeed, we used to supplicate Him before. Indeed, it is He who is the Beneficent, the Merciful."
fadhakkir famā anta biniʿ'mati rabbika bikāhinin walā majnūnin
So remind, [O Muḥammad], for you are not, by the favor of your Lord, a soothsayer or a madman.
am yaqūlūna shāʿirun natarabbaṣu bihi rayba l-manūni
Or do they say [of you], "A poet for whom we await a misfortune of time"?
qul tarabbaṣū fa-innī maʿakum mina l-mutarabiṣīna
Say, "Wait, for indeed I am, with you, among the waiters."
am tamuruhum aḥlāmuhum bihādhā am hum qawmun ṭāghūna
Or do their minds command them to [say] this, or are they a transgressing people?
am yaqūlūna taqawwalahu bal lā yu'minūna
Or do they say, "He has made it up"? Rather, they do not believe.
falyatū biḥadīthin mith'lihi in kānū ṣādiqīna
Then let them produce a statement like it, if they should be truthful.
am khuliqū min ghayri shayin am humu l-khāliqūna
Or were they created by nothing, or were they the creators [of themselves]?
am khalaqū l-samāwāti wal-arḍa bal lā yūqinūna
Or did they create the heavens and the earth? Rather, they are not certain.
am ʿindahum khazāinu rabbika am humu l-muṣayṭirūna
Or have they the depositories [containing the provision] of your Lord? Or are they the controllers [of them]?
am lahum sullamun yastamiʿūna fīhi falyati mus'tamiʿuhum bisul'ṭānin mubīnin
Or have they a stairway [into the heaven] upon which they listen? Then let their listener produce a clear authority [i.e., proof].
am lahu l-banātu walakumu l-banūna
Or has He daughters while you have sons?
am tasaluhum ajran fahum min maghramin muth'qalūna
Or do you, [O Muḥammad], ask of them a payment, so they are by debt burdened down?