In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
Conclusion from Al-Tabari’s interpretation
It was summarized by Dr. Aqeel bin Salem Al-Shammari
Surah Al-Isra
In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
We have honored the children of Adam
We carried them on land and sea
And We provided for them
And We provided them with good things
We favored them over many of those We created
We have honored the children of Adam
By giving them power over other creatures
We subjugate the rest of creation to them
We carried them across the land on the backs of animals
And in the sea, in the ships that we made available for them
We provided them with good restaurants and drinks
We favored them over many of those We created
By enabling them to work with their hands
And take food and drinks with it
And raise it to their mouths
This is not possible for other people
The day when we will call every people with their imam
Whoever is given his book in his right hand
They read their book
They read their book and do not oppress a fuse
The day when we will call every people with their imam
whom they imitated in this world
Whoever is given a book will do it with his right hand
Those people read their book
So they know everything in it
And God does not treat them unjustly as a reward for their deeds
It is the twisted one that is in the slit of the nucleus’s belly
Whoever is in this is blind
In the afterlife, he will be blind
And I am astray
Whoever is blind in this world
About God's arguments that he is the only one
By creating and managing it
He is concerned about the afterlife, which he has not seen
No blind person saw it
And he is more misguided than him in matters of this world
Which he has seen and seen
Even if they almost tempt you away from what We have revealed to you
To slander others against us
And if they would not have taken you as a friend
God mentioned that the polytheists
They almost tempted the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace
What God revealed to him
To work with others
That is slander against God
And if you did what they called you to do of sedition
They would have taken you as a friend for themselves
You were theirs and they were your friends
If we had not strengthened you, you would have been dependent on them for a little while
And had We not established you, O Muhammad
By keeping us safe from what He called you to do
These polytheists are from temptation
I was drawn to them
And reassure yourself a little
That is what he, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him, was concerned with
Than to do some of what they asked him to do
We would have made you taste the weakness of life and the weakness of death
Then you will not find a helper against us
If you would rely on these polytheists, O Muhammad
Then we would have made you taste twice the torment of life and twice the torment of death
Then, O Muhammad, you will not find a helper to help you against us
He will save you from the punishment you have suffered from us
They almost provoke you from the land to expel you from it
Then they will only disagree with you for a little while
These people are about to hide you from the land in which you are, in order to expel you from it
And if they had expelled you from it, they would not have stayed in it except for a short time until I destroyed them with an urgent torment
The Sunnah of Our Messengers whom We have sent before you
Our tongues do not find any conversion
If they expel you, they will only remain in conflict with you for a little while
We will certainly destroy them with the torment We have imposed on those whom We have sent before you from among Our messengers
This is what we used to do to nations when they brought out their messengers from among them
There is no change in our tongues from what happened
Establish prayer from the setting of the sun until the dusk of the night and the recitation of the dawn. Indeed, the recitation of the dawn is witnessed
Perform the prayer as the sun approaches the approach of night
And perform what you recite in the Fajr prayer, for what you recite in the Fajr prayer from the Qur’an has been witnessed
It is witnessed by the angels of the night and the angels of the day
And the prayer that the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, ordered to be performed at the setting of the sun
Dhuhr and afternoon prayers
The prayer that occurs at dusk is the Maghrib prayer
And from the night, perform it as a voluntary prayer for you. Perhaps your Lord will raise you to a praiseworthy position
And from the night, wake up after your sleep, O Muhammad, with the Qur’an, in order to renounce your duties that have been imposed on you
Purely without your nation, which is the night prayer
Perhaps your Lord will raise you on the Day of Resurrection to a place where you will stand praised and rejoice
And say, “My Lord, let me enter an entrance of truthfulness and bring me out an exit of truthfulness and grant me authority from You as a helper.”
And say, O Muhammad, O Lord, let me enter Medina with an entrance of truthfulness, and take me out of Mecca with an exit of truthfulness
And grant me authority and support over the people of the town whose people expelled me and over all those who are similar to them
If he is given that, he will undoubtedly be given a clear proof
And say, “The truth has come and falsehood has vanished.” Indeed, falsehood has vanished
And say, O Muhammad, to these polytheists, the truth has come, and it is everything in which God has satisfaction and obedience
Falsehood is gone, which is everything that was without God’s satisfaction or obedience. Falsehood was gone
And We reveal from the Qur’an that which is a healing and a mercy for the believers, and it only increases loss to the wrongdoers
And We reveal to you, O Muhammad, from the Qur’an what is a cure by which one can recover from ignorance and from misguidance
And a mercy for the believers, so they permit what is lawful and prohibit what is unlawful, and thereby admits them to Paradise, and it is a mercy for them.
This Qur’an only increases destruction to those who disbelieve in it
And when We bestow blessings upon man, he turns away and distances himself, and when evil touches him, he becomes miserable
And when We bestow blessings upon man, We save him from distress. He turns away from Our remembrance and turns away from Us
If evil and distress touch him, he becomes despondent of relief and spirit
Say, “Everyone works in his own way, for your Lord knows best who is most guided in the path.”
Say, O Muhammad, to the people: You all work on your own side and your way, for your Lord knows best who among you is more guided to the path to the truth than others.
And they ask you about the soul. Say, “The soul is from the command of my Lord, and you have not been given knowledge except a little.”
And the disbelievers in God, among the People of the Book, ask you about the soul. Tell them
The soul is a matter that only God knows, not you
And you and all people have not been given knowledge except a little of much of what God knows
If we wish, we can go with what we have revealed to you, and then you will not find a representative over us with it
And if We wished, We could take away the knowledge We have given you, which We have revealed to you from this Qur’an, so do not know it
Then you will not find for yourself, because of what we do to you, a guardian who will stand up for you and prevent us from doing that to you
Except for the mercy of your Lord. Indeed, His grace upon you was great
And if we wanted, we could go, O Muhammad, with what We revealed to you, but he does not want that
A mercy from your Lord and a favor from Him upon you. Indeed, His favor upon you was great
By selecting you for His message and sending down to you His Book
Say: If mankind and jinn were to gather together to produce the like of this Qur’an, they would not produce the like of it, even if they supported one another.
Say, O Muhammad, to those who told you: We bring the like of this Qur’an
Because mankind and the jinn gathered together to produce something like it, they will never produce the like of it, even if they were each other’s help and support.
We have presented to the people every example in this Qur’an, but most of the people refused except as ungrateful
We have made clear to the people in this Qur’an every example as a proof of all of that against them and a reminder to them of the truth so that they may follow it, but most people refused except to deny the truth and deny God’s proofs and evidence.
And they said, “We will not believe in you until you gush forth for us from the earth a spring.”
And the polytheists said, “We will not believe you until you burst for us from this land of ours that will supply us with water.”
Or you will have a garden of palm trees and grapes, and rivers will burst forth through it
Or you will have an orchard of palm trees and grapes, and rivers will burst forth through the palm trees and vineyards
Or will the sky be covered with coverings as you have claimed upon us, or will God and the angels come before us?
Or will the sky fall upon us definitely, or will it bring God, O Muhammad, and the angels as our witnesses? We will meet them face to face, and we will see them closely.
Or you will have an ornate house, or you will be promoted to heaven, and we will not believe in your advancement until you send down to us a book that we can read. Say, Glory be to my Lord, were you anything but a human messenger?
Or, O Muhammad, you will have a house of gold or you will ascend a stairway to heaven, and we will not believe you for the sake of your elevation to heaven until you send down to us a published book for us to read in which we are commanded to follow you and believe in you.
Say, O Muhammad, to her are the polytheists, who distance themselves from God from what they describe him as. Am I only one of His servants? How can I do what you asked of me? Rather, I am a messenger conveying to you what I sent to you, and what you asked me to do is in the hands of God, no one else can do that.
When guidance came to them, they said, “God has sent good tidings to a messenger.”
And what prevented, O Muhammad, the polytheists of your people from believing in God when the clarification came to them from God with the truth of what you call upon them only their saying out of ignorance on their part, God has sent the glad tidings of a messenger.
Say, O Muhammad, to these are those who refuse to believe in you. If, O people, there were angels on earth walking in tranquility, we would have sent down to them from heaven an angel and a messenger, because you see the angels as angels like them, and only a messenger from them is sent to humans.
Say, O Muhammad, to those who say: God has sent the good tidings of a messenger. God is sufficient as a witness between me and you, for He is the best Sufficient and Judge. Indeed, God has experience with His servants and knowledge of their affairs and actions.
He is aware of their planning and behavior as He wills, and He is the one who reconciles all of them with what was presented when they came to Him
And as hard as hell is their abode. Whenever it subsides, We increase them in the Fire
If God wants to punish them and gather them in the position of the Resurrection after they have been dispersed in the graves on their faces blind, mute and deaf, and their destination is to Hell, whenever it softens and settles, We will increase the burning of these infidels by scorching fire upon them and burning within them.
That is their recompense, because they disbelieved in Our signs and said, “When we were bones and rubble, shall we then be raised up as a new creation?”
This is what We described from our actions on the Day of Resurrection to these polytheists, their reward for their disbelief in this world of Our signs
And by their saying, “If we were commanded to believe in the promise, ‘If we were worn out bones and became dust, then will we be resurrected after that as a new creation.’”
Conclusion from Al-Tabari’s interpretation