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-Shammar
Surat Al-Zumar
In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
If harm befalls a person, he calls upon his Lord, turning to Him
Then, if He grants him a blessing from Him
He forgot what he was praying for before
And He gave God equals to stray from His path
Say, “Enjoy your disbelief for a little while, for you are among the inmates of Hell.”
If a person is affected by a calamity in his body, such as a disease
He sought help from his Lord because of the severity of this
Repenting to Him of the disbelief in Him that occurred before
Then if his Lord grants him well-being
So his harm was revealed to him
He abandoned his supplication, which he had previously called upon God to reveal the harm that was afflicting him
And He gave God examples and similarities
To remove those who wanted to unite God
Say, O Muhammad, to the one who did that
Enjoy your disbelief in God for a little while until you fulfill your deadline
You are one of the people of Hell staying there
This is a threat from God
Is he despondent at night, prostrating and standing?
Prostrating and standing, he warns of the afterlife and hopes for the mercy of his Lord
Say: Are those who know and those who do not know equal?
Only people of understanding remember
Is he despondent at night?
Prostrating at one time and standing at one time
He warns of the torment of the afterlife
He hopes that God will have mercy on him and admit him to Paradise
Are those who know equal the reward they have in their obedience to their Lord?
And there are no consequences for their disobedience
And those who don't know that
Rather, he considers the arguments of God and becomes disgraced
The people of reason and reasoning ponder it
Say, O servants of those who believe, fear your Lord
For those who do good in this world is good
God's earth is vast
Only those who are patient will be given their reward without reckoning
Say, Muhammad
O My servants who believe in God and believe in His Messenger
Fear your Lord by obeying Him and protect us from disobeying Him
For those who obey God there is good in this world
Health and wellness
And it was said: Paradise
God's earth is spacious and vast
So they migrated from the land of polytheism to the land of Islam
God only gives people patience for what they face in this world
Their reward in the afterlife without reckoning
Say, “I have been commanded to worship God, making my religion sincere to Him.”
I was ordered to be the first of the Muslims
Say, “I fear, if I disobey my Lord, the punishment of a great day.”
Say, “I worship God, sincerely, He has my religion.”
Say, O Muhammad, to the polytheists of your people
God commanded me to worship Him alone and obey Him alone
I worship Him most sincerely
Tell them, O Muhammad
I fear, if I disobey my Lord in what He has commanded me to do of worshiping Him, the punishment of the Day of Resurrection
Say, O Muhammad, to the polytheists of your people
I worship God as a single Savior who has my obedience and worship
I do not make him a partner in that
So worship whatever you want besides Him
Say: The losers are those who lose themselves and their families on the Day of Resurrection
Except that is the clear loss
So, you people, worship whatever idols you want
And other than what you worship
You will know the consequences of your worship when you meet your Lord
Tell them, O Muhammad
Indeed, the perishers who were destroyed by the punishment of God, their family with their own souls
Except that these polytheists will lose on the Day of Resurrection
It is the destruction that makes clear to those who see it and know that it is loss
They will have shades of fire above them and shades below them
This causes God to fear His servants
O servants, fear!
For those losers on the Day of Resurrection in Hell
Above them are shades of fire
Like the form of shadows built of fire
And beneath them of the Fire is what is above them until it becomes a shadow
This is what I told you, O people, about the punishment for the losers on the Day of Resurrection
A fear from your Lord towards you so that you may beware of Him and avoid disobeying Him
So fear Me by performing My duties upon you and avoiding sins
And those who avoid the taghut should worship it
And they turned to God for their humans
So give good news to servants
Those who listen to what is said and follow the best of it
Those whom God has guided
And those are people of understanding
And those who avoid worshiping everything that is worshiped other than God
They repented to God and returned to acknowledging His monotheism and acting in obedience to Him
They have humans in this world and paradise in the afterlife
So give good news, O Muhammad, to the servants of those who listen to the word and follow its guidance
Those who listen to what is said and follow the best of it
They are the ones whom God has guided to guidance and to do what is right
These are the people of reason and wisdom
Whoever is subject to the word of torment, will you save those who are in Hell?
Is he the one for whom the word of torment was imposed before your Lord knew, O Muhammad, of his disbelief in it?
Will you, O Muhammad, save the one who is in Hell from the one upon whom the word of torment is due?
You save him
But those who fear their Lord will have chambers above it
Built rooms with rivers running underneath them
God promised, God does not fail to promise
But those who fear their Lord by performing His duties and avoiding His prohibitions
They will have rooms in Paradise, above which are rooms built on top of each other
Rivers flow from beneath the trees of its paradise
We promised these rooms to these pious people
God does not break His promise to them
Have you not seen that God sent down water from the sky and caused it to spring into springs on earth?
Then he produces crops of different colors
Then it becomes agitated and you see it turn yellow, then it turns it into debris
Indeed, in that is a reminder for those of understanding
Did you not see, O Muhammad, that God sent down rain from the sky?
So he made eyes on the earth
Then he grew different types of plants with that water
Among wheat, barley, sesame and rice
Then that plant withers after its greenness, and you see it as yellow
Then he makes that planting, after it has become dry, young and broken
God's doing this is a reminder and a warning for rational people to remember Him
They know who did it
It will not be impossible for him to cause whatever things he wants
Is it someone whose heart God has opened to Islam?
He is on the light of his Lord
Woe to those whose hearts are hardened at the remembrance of God
Those are in clear error
Is he who God has opened his heart to know?
He has insight and certainty
As if God had hardened his heart
He is unable to listen to the truth and do what is right
So woe to those whose hearts have dried up from the Qur’an
Who sent it down as a reminder to His servants
These people have hard hearts and are in clear error to those who contemplate it and contemplate it
God sent down the best hadith as a similar book
It causes goosebumps on the skins of those who fear their Lord
Then their skins and hearts soften to the remembrance of God
That is God’s guidance, with which He guides whom He wills
Whoever God leads astray, he has no guide
God revealed the Qur’an, some of which resemble each other
There is no difference or contradiction in it
It includes information, reports, judgments, rulings, and arguments
Hearing it makes the skin of those who fear their Lord shudder
Then their skins and hearts will soften to act according to the Book of God and believe in it
This is what afflicts these people
May God grant them success
God guides with the Qur’an whomever He wills among His servants
And whoever God will let down from believing in this Qur’an and believing in it
He has no one who guides him and guides him in following him
Is he who will protect his face from the worst torment on the Day of Resurrection?
And it was said to the wrongdoers, “Taste what you used to earn.”
Is he who protects his face from the evil of torment on the Day of Resurrection better?
He will be safe in Paradise
On that day it will be said to the wrongdoers themselves
Taste today, O people, the evil of what you have earned in this world by disobeying God
Those before them lied, so the torment came to them from where they did not perceive
So God made them taste disgrace in this worldly life
And the torment of the Hereafter is greater, if they only knew
Those before those polytheists from the nations who passed away lied
Then the punishment of God came to them from the place from which they did not know that it was coming
May God hasten humiliation in this world for these nations
And God’s punishment for them in the afterlife is greater than the punishment with which He punished them in this world
If these polytheists from Quraish knew that
And We have presented for the people every example in this Qur’an, so that they may remember
We have presented to these polytheists every example of the past centuries
A warning to them so that they might remember and remove their blindness from disbelief in God
We have given people every example in this Qur’an
An unambiguous Arabic Qur’an so that they can understand the meanings it contains
So that they fear what God warned them about of His punishment, so they turn to worshiping Him
Praise be to God, but most of them do not know
God set an example for this infidel
A man who is between a group of different, disputing owners
Each one of them uses it according to his share and ownership in it
A man who is sincere to another means a monotheist believer who is sincere in his worship of God
Is it equal to someone who serves a group of partners who have bad morals?
And whoever serves one person, no one will dispute with him
Which of these two is better, has a better body, and is less tired?
Complete thanks to God alone, without every deity other than Him
Rather, most of these polytheists do not know that they are not equal
Because of their ignorance, they worship various gods other than God
You are dead and they are dead
On the Day of Resurrection, you will dispute before your Lord
O Muhammad, you will soon die
These people who denounce you and the believers among them are dead
Then all of you, believers and unbelievers, will dispute on the Day of Resurrection before your Lord
It will be taken from the oppressor among you for the oppressed
Conclusion from Al-Tabari’s interpretation