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-A'raf
In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
And when we overlooked the mountain above them as if it were a canopy
They thought it was happening to them
Take what we have given you with strength
And remember what is in it that you may become righteous
And remember, O Muhammad, when We uprooted the mountain from its roots
So we raised it above the heads of the children of Israel
Like a cloud of darkness
They thought that the mountain was falling on them
And we told them
Take what We have given you of Our obligations and accept it
They worked hard on your part to perform it
And remember the covenants and covenants in our book
Which we have entrusted you with, including what is in it
So that you may fear your Lord and fear His punishment
And when your Lord took from the children of Adam, from their backs, their offspring
And I bear witness against themselves
Am I not your Lord?
They said, “Yes, we witnessed that you may say so on the Day of Resurrection.”
We were unaware of this
And remember, O Muhammad, your Lord
When God extracted the children of Adam from the loins of their fathers
So he decided to unite him
And some of them bear witness to this
Am I not your Lord?
They said yes
Those who testified said that some of the sons of Adam agreed with others
We witnessed against you what you admitted to yourselves
So that you do not say on the Day of Resurrection
We did not know that
We were unaware of it
Or do you say, “Our fathers were polytheists before.”
We were descendants after them
Will you destroy us with what the invalids did?
Or do you say, “Our fathers were polytheists before.”
We were descendants after them
We followed those who attacked them
Will you destroy us by associating those who polytheized among our fathers?
Those who invalidated their claim to a god other than God
And thus We detail the verses, and perhaps they will return
And as we have detailed, O Muhammad, for your people, the verses of this Surah
We explained in it what we did to the previous nations
Likewise, We will detail other verses and explain them to your people
Let them be encouraged to obey me
And they repent from their polytheism
And recite to them the story of the one to whom We gave Our signs and he broke away from them
Then he slipped away from it, and Satan followed him, and he became one of the deviants
And recite, O Muhammad, upon your people
We inform you of what we have given, our arguments and evidence
So he came out of the signs that God had given him
So he disavowed her
Then Satan followed him
He became a follower of himself
He ends up disobeying God
He was among those who perished
If We had willed, We would have lifted him up with it, but he remained on earth
But he went down to earth and followed his desires
He is like a dog, if you force him to pant or leave him panting
That is like the people who denied Our signs
So tell stories so that they might think
Had We willed, We could have elevated this man to whom We have given Our signs with Our signs which We have given him
But he settled for the life of this world on earth and leaned toward it
He preferred her pleasure and desires to the afterlife
He refused to obey God and followed his desires
Such is the one to whom We gave Our signs and he became detached from them
Like a panting dog you kicked out or left
He is like him in his panting because of his abandonment of working according to the Book of God
And his turning away from God’s preaching
Whether he preached the signs of God that He had given him or not
So he does not abandon disbelief in him
He is like a dog that, regardless of its command, whether it is panting, is expelled or not
This is the example that you gave of this one to whom We gave Our signs and he slipped away from them
Like the people who denied our arguments and our arguments
So they followed the path of this slaughterhouse
So tell me, O Muhammad, these stories that I told you
Of the information to whom We have given Our signs and the news of the nations which I have told you
Let them think about this, consider it, and come forward to obey us
Miserable as me are the people who denied Our verses while they were wronging themselves
The people who disbelieved in God’s arguments and evidence and denied them were as bad as me
And they themselves were diminishing its presence and underestimating its benefits
By denying them and nothing else
Whoever God guides is the one who is guided, and whoever He leads astray - those are the losers
Whoever God helps to obey Him is the one who is guided and follows the path of truth
Whoever misleads and does not guide him to obey Him is doomed
And We have created for Hell many jinn and humans
They have hearts with which they do not understand, and they have eyes with which they do not see
They have eyes with which they do not see, and they have ears with which they do not hear
These are like cattle, nay, they are more astray. These are the heedless
We have created for Hell many jinn and humans
These people have hearts in which they do not think about the signs of God
They do not consider his evidence of his oneness
They have eyes with which they do not look at God’s signs and evidence
Through it, they will know the validity of what their messengers are calling them to
They have ears with which they cannot hear the verses of the Book of God
They consider it and think about it
These are like animals that do not understand what is said to them
In their hearts, they do not understand good from evil
Rather, these infidels stray from the truth more severely than animals
Because animals have a choice and no discrimination
However, he avoided harm
They ask for the best food for themselves
These are the people who neglected My verses and My proofs
They abandoned the evidence for what it indicated of the monotheism of God
And God has the most beautiful names, so call upon Him by them
And leave those who deny His names
They will be rewarded for what they did
And God has the most beautiful names, so call upon Him by them
And leave those who deny His names
So they changed it from what it was
So they named their gods with it, and added and subtracted from it
They called some of them Al-Lat, derived from the name of God
They called some of them Al-Azza, derived from the name of God Almighty
They will be rewarded for the deeds they used to do
From disbelief in God and atheism in His names
And his Messenger was denied
Among the creation whom We have created is a group guided by the truth
In truth, they judge and do justice to people
And those who deny Our signs, We will lure them from where they do not know
And those who denied our evidence and flags
We will give them respite
We adorn them with their evidence
So that he thinks that he is in denial of the verses of God
To himself Mohsen
Until he reaches the purpose of the deadlines that were written for him
Then he takes it with his bad deeds
He will reward him with it from the punishment
That was God's temptation for him
And I will put back those who denied Our signs
To inform their Lord of their disobedience
The amount of punishment and torment that He had decreed for them
Then He takes them to Him
My cunning is strong and intense
Did not those who denied Our verses think?
And they know that our Messenger is neither mad nor insane
He is nothing but a warner warning you of God's punishment for your disbelief in Him
If you do not turn to believe in it
And perhaps their time has approached
So in what hadith after it will they believe?
They warn that their deadlines are approaching
They will perish for their disbelief
So what intimidation and warning after the warning of Muhammad, may God bless him and grant him peace, will they believe?
Whoever God leads astray has no guide
And He leaves them blind in their transgression
Whoever leads God astray from Al-Rashidi, there is no guide for him
But God allows them to persist in their disbelief
And their rebellion in their trap hesitates
To necessitate the purpose that God has written for them in terms of his punishment and the most painful punishment
They ask you about the Hour and when it will arrive
Say, “The knowledge of it is with my Lord.”
No one can make it clear at the time except Him
So I said, “In the heavens and the earth.”
It will not come to you except suddenly
They ask you as if you were unaware of it
Say, “The knowledge of it is with God.”
But most people don't know
They ask you about the Hour when it will come
Say, O Muhammad, the knowledge of it is with my Lord
Only God knows the time of its resurrection
And no one else will reveal it at the time
The Hour is hidden for the people of the heavens and the earth to know its time
The hour comes only suddenly
These people ask you about the hour
It is as if you were aware of the question and learned it
Say, Muhammad, I have no knowledge of that
Only God knows about it
But most people do not know that only God knows this
Rather, they think that knowledge of this exists among some of His creation
Say, “I do not control for myself any benefit or harm except what God wills.”
If I had known the unseen, I would have abundantly done good and no evil would have touched me
I am only a warner and a giver of good tidings to a people who believe
Tell, O Muhammad, to those who ask you about the Hour
I cannot bring any benefit to myself
No harm can be warded off by it
Except what God wills that I have of that
To strengthen me and help me
Even if I knew what was
Do not do too much good deeds
It was said that I prepared for the barren year from the fertile one
And you would know the high from the cheap
And no harm touched me
I am only a messenger of God who sent me to you
I warn of his punishment and give good tidings of his reward to people who believe that I am God’s messenger