Category: My Online Tafsir (Quran Commentary)

The Unbelievers say: “No messenger art thou.” Say: “Enough for a witness between me and you is Allah, and such as have knowledge of the Book.” Allah is One and Justice Prevails due to Him – Islamic Web Library

Those before them did (also) devise plots; but in all things the master-planning is Allah’s He knoweth the doings of every soul: and soon will the Unbelievers know who gets home in the end.

See they not that We gradually reduce the land (in their control) from its outlying borders? (Where) Allah commands, there is none to put back His Command: and He is swift in calling to account. Or: “curtailing it from [all] its sides” (min atrafiha) -depending on whether one understandsby atraf the “sides” or “extremities” or […]

Whether We shall show thee (within thy life-time) part of what we promised them or take to ourselves thy soul (before it is all accomplished),- thy duty is to make (the Message) reach them: it is our part to call them to account.

Allah doth blot out or confirm what He pleaseth: with Him is the Mother of the Book. Al-Rāzī explains that God effaces what He will and establishes meansthat, in accordance with what the Divine Will has decreed, “He brings things intoexistence at one moment and makes them nonexistent at another; gives life atone moment and […]

We did send messengers before thee, and appointed for them wives and children: and it was never the part of a messenger to bring a sign except as Allah permitted (or commanded). For each period is a Book (revealed). Or: “a divine writ” (kitab). See 5:48 – “Unto every one of you have We appointed […]

Thus have We revealed it to be a judgment of authority in Arabic. Wert thou to follow their (vain) desires after the knowledge which hath reached thee, then wouldst thou find neither protector nor defender against Allah.

Those to whom We have given the Book rejoice at what hath been revealed unto thee: but there are among the clans those who reject a part thereof. Say: “I am commanded to worship Allah, and not to join partners with Him. Unto Him do I call, and unto Him is my return.” “Those to […]

The parable of the Garden which the righteous are promised!- beneath it flow rivers: perpetual is the enjoyment thereof and the shade therein: such is the end of the Righteous; and the end of Unbelievers in the Fire. The Paradise and Hell in light of the Quran – Islamic Web Library

For them is a penalty in the life of this world, but harder, truly, is the penalty of the Hereafter: and defender have they none against Allah.