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
Surat Al-Mu'minun
In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
If We had mercy on them and removed their harm, they would fly away blind
If only we had mercy on those who do not believe in the afterlife
And We removed from them their suffering of drought, barrenness, and the affliction of hunger
In their arrogance and audacity, they hesitate before their Lord
And We seized them with torment, but they did not submit to their Lord, nor did they supplicate
We have punished these polytheists
We made their livelihood difficult, made their country barren, and killed their families with the sword
They did not submit to their Lord and submit to His commands and prohibitions, and they did not submit to Him
Until, when We open upon them a door of severe torment, they will be lost in it
Even if we open the door to famine and harm to them
These polytheists became sad and regretted what had happened before them in denying the verses of God
It is He who created for you hearing, sight, and hearts. You rarely doubt
It is God who gave you the hearing with which you hear and the vision with which you see
And the benefits that you understand
How can it be impossible for whoever created it to begin with to bring it back?
You are thankful, you liars, for God’s news of His giving you hearing, sight, and hearts a little
It is He who produced you on earth, and to Him you will be gathered
It is God who created you on earth, and to Him you will be gathered after your death
Then you will be raised from your graves to a position of reckoning
It is He who gives life and causes death, and to Him belongs the alternation of night and day. Do you not understand?
It is God who gives life to His creation after they were dead sperm
He will kill them after bringing them back to life
He is the one who made night and day different
Do you not understand, O people?
The one who did these actions started without a foundation
It is not impossible for him to revive the dead after they have perished
Rather, they said the same as what the ancients said
They said, "When we die and become dust and bones, will we be resurrected?"
What do these polytheists think of God’s signs?
But they said what their ancestors said
They said: When we die, we will return to dust
We will be resurrected from our graves, alive as we were before death
This is something that does not exist
We and our parents promised this before
These are nothing but legends of the ancients
They said: We were promised this promise that you promised us, O Muhammad
Our fathers before us promised a people who mentioned that they were God’s messengers before you
We didn't see it for real
What is this that prepares us for resurrection after death?
Except for what the ancients wrote in their books of hadiths and reports
Which has no validity or truth
Say, “Whose earth is it and who is on it, if you know?”
They will say to God: Say, will you not remember?
Say, O Muhammad, to her are those who deny the Hereafter
Who owns the earth and all of its creation?
If you know who owns it
Then inform him that they will acknowledge that she is God’s queen
So tell them, “Don’t you remember?”
So you know that whoever was able to create that in the first place
He is able to revive them after they die
Say, “Who is the Lord of the Seven Heavens and the Lord of the Great Throne?”
They will say to God: “Say, will you not fear God?”
Tell them, O Muhammad, who is the Lord of the seven heavens and the Lord of the Throne surrounding that
They will say all of that to God, so tell them
Do you not fear His punishment for your disbelief in Him and your denial of His news and the news of His Messenger?
Say, “Who holds the kingdom of everything?”
He is generous and he is not respected
He is generous and He is not benevolent, if you only knew
They will say to God, “Say, I will bewitch you.”
Say, O Muhammad, who holds the treasures of everything?
He protects whomever he wants from those who mean evil to him
No one abstains from someone who wants him badly
So his torment and punishment will be warded off from him
If you know his character from that
They will say that the kingdom of everything
The power over all things belongs to God
So tell them, O Muhammad
In what way does the lie really come to you?
And the corrupt is true
So you turn away from acknowledging the truth to which our Messenger Muhammad, may God bless him and grant him peace, calls you
Rather, We gave them the truth, and they are liars
God did not have a son, nor was there any god with Him
Then every god would destroy what he created, and some of them would be superior to others
Glory be to God for what they describe
He knows the unseen and the witnessed, so He is exalted above what they associate with Him
What is the matter as these polytheists claim?
That angels are daughters of God
And that gods and idols are gods other than God
Rather, We gave them certainty, which is Islam
Indeed, the polytheists are liars in what they attribute to God
They remove it from the child and the partner
God has no son
There was no one with him in the past who was worthy of worship
Even if things were with him in the past or at the time of his creation, it would be appropriate to worship him
Therefore, each of them is not isolated from what He created and is alone with it
And you will prevail, one against the other
The strong among them defeated the weak
Glory be to God and may He be above what these polytheists describe Him as
He knows the things that are hidden from His creation
So God exalted and exalted the polytheism of these polytheists
He described them as they described him
Say, O Muhammad, my Lord, if you show me in these polytheists what you promise them of your punishment
Do not destroy me with what you destroy them with
Save me from your torment and wrath
Do not place me among the polytheist people
But make me among the saints you are pleased with
Do not place me among the unjust people
And We are capable of showing you what We promise them
O Muhammad, we are determined to show you regarding these polytheists what we promise them of hastening the torment for them. We are capable of it
So do not be saddened by their denial of what we promised them
But we postpone that until the deadline for the Book reaches
Repel with what is better than evil. We know best what they describe
Pay, O Muhammad, with the trait that is better
That is turning a blind eye and pardoning the ignorant polytheists
And be patient with their harm
This was his command to him before his command to fight them
And He cursed us with evil deeds, as the polytheists harmed Him
We know best what they describe God with
They free him from the lies and slander against him
And what they say about you is bad
We reward them for all of that
And say, “My Lord, I seek refuge in You from the instigations of the devils.”
I seek refuge in You, Lord, lest they attend
And say, O Muhammad, my Lord, I seek refuge in You from the suffocation and whisperings of the devils
And say, “I seek refuge in You, Lord, lest they be present in my affairs.”
Even when death comes to one of them, he says, “Lord, bring me back.”
Perhaps I may do good with what I have left behind
No, it is a word he said
And behind them is an isthmus until the Day they are resurrected
Even if death comes to one of these polytheists
He said he regretted what he had missed
Lord, bring me back to this world and bring me back to it
So that I can do good with what I left off work before today
I lost it and was alone in it
No, it is not what he said
This word is his saying, “O Lord, bring me back.”
This polytheist said it
There is a barrier in front of them, preventing them from returning
Until the day they are resurrected from their graves
If the trumpet is blown, there will be no lineage between them on that day
There will be no lineage between them on that day, and they will not ask questions
If he blows the pictures
So everyone in the heavens and everyone on earth was shocked, except those whom God willed
There will be no lineage between them on that day through which they can communicate
And they don't wonder
They do not visit each other and ask about their conditions and lineages
Those whose scales are heavy are the ones who are successful
And whoever's scales are light, those are the ones who lost their souls in hell to abide forever
Their faces will be engulfed in fire, and they will burn in it
Whoever's good deeds are heavy, those are the ones who will live forever in the gardens of bliss
And if the scales of his good deeds are light, then those who deceived themselves will receive their blessings from God’s mercy
They will abide in the fire of Hell forever. Their faces will be engulfed by the flame of fire, which will burn them
There they are with their lips pulled away from their teeth due to the fire burning their faces
It will be said to them: Were the verses of the Qur’an not recited to you in this world and you used to deny them?
They say, “Our Lord, we have overcome what preceded us in Your foreknowledge and wrote down for us in the Mother of the Book.”
We were a people who had strayed from the path of guidance and the goal of truth
Our Lord, take us out of it, and if we return, we will be wrongdoers
He said: Be humble about it and do not speak
Our Lord, take us out of the Fire. If we return to the deeds that You hate from us, then we are wrongdoers
The Lord said in response to them, “Sit in the fire and do not speak.”
Indeed, there was a group of My servants saying, “Our Lord, we have believed, so forgive us and have mercy on us, and You are the Best of the Merciful.”
So you took them as a mockery until I made you forget My remembrance, and you were laughing at them
God Almighty says that there was a group of My servants who were people of faith in God
They say in this world, “Our Lord, we believe in you and your messengers, so forgive us and have mercy on us.”
You are better than those who have mercy on the people of calamity, so do not torture us with your torment
So you have taken the people who believe in me in this world as a mockery and a toy for you to mock
Your mockery of them continued until you made me forget to mention it and distracted you from it, and you were laughing at them
I have rewarded them today for their patience. Indeed, they are the victors
Indeed, O polytheists of God, I reward those whom you took in this world as a mockery of the people of faith
Because they were patient with what they used to face when you made fun of them
They are the winners today of eternal bliss and lasting dignity
He said: How many years did you stay on earth?
They said, “We stayed for a day or part of a day, so ask the two numbers.”
He said, “You only stayed for a short time, if only you had known.”
He said to these wretches, how many years have you been in this world?
They replied, “We stayed there for a day or part of a day.”
So ask the numerals who count the number of months and years, because we do not know, we have forgotten that
God said to them, “You did not stay on earth except for a short time.”
If you only knew how much you would have stayed there
Did you think that We created you in vain and that you would not be returned to Us?
Did you think, O wretched ones, that We created you only as a game and in vain?
And you will not be returned to your Lord after your death
Then you will be rewarded for what you used to do in this world
So exalted is God, the True King
As these polytheists describe him, that he has a partner
There is no deity to whom one should worship except Allah, Lord of the Noble Throne
Whoever calls upon another god with God has no proof for it
His account is deep
Whoever calls upon another god with God has no proof for it
His reckoning is with his Lord. Indeed, the disbelievers will not succeed
And whoever supplicates with the deity for whom worship is not appropriate, except for another deity
There is no evidence for what he says or does regarding that, nor is it clear
The account of his bad deeds is with his Lord
He will pay his reward if it is brought against him
People who disbelieve in God will not succeed with Him
They do not realize immortality and survival in bliss
And say, O Muhammad, my Lord, cover my sins by pardoning them
And have mercy on me by accepting your repentance
And say, O Lord, you are better than having mercy on a sinner
He accepted his repentance and did not punish her