التكوير
The Overthrowing
Explanations are simplified from tafsirs by Ibn Kathir, Mufti Muhammad Shafi, and Maulana Wahiduddin Khan. Spot an inaccuracy? Let us know.
muṭāʿin thamma amīnin
Obeyed there [in the heavens] and trustworthy.
wamā ṣāḥibukum bimajnūnin
And your companion [i.e., Prophet Muḥammad (ﷺ) ] is not [at all] mad.
walaqad raāhu bil-ufuqi l-mubīni
And he has already seen him [i.e., Gabriel] in the clear horizon.
wamā huwa ʿalā l-ghaybi biḍanīnin
And he [i.e., Muḥammad (ﷺ)] is not a withholder of [knowledge of] the unseen.
wamā huwa biqawli shayṭānin rajīmin
And it [i.e., the Qur’ān] is not the word of a devil, expelled [from the heavens].
fa-ayna tadhhabūna
So where are you going?
in huwa illā dhik'run lil'ʿālamīna
It is not except a reminder to the worlds
liman shāa minkum an yastaqīma
For whoever wills among you to take a right course.
wamā tashāūna illā an yashāa l-lahu rabbu l-ʿālamīna
And you do not will except that Allāh wills - Lord of the worlds.