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-Zukhruf
In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
Protector
And the clear book
We have made it an Arabic Qur’an so that you may understand
Indeed, in the Mother of the Book we have, Ali is Wise
Protector
An oath from God Almighty
I swear by this clear book to those who ponder it and think about its words
We sent it down as a Qur’an in the Arabic language
Perhaps you can understand its meanings and the sermons it contains
This book is the original book from which this book was copied
With us there is one of exaltation and exaltation, whose verses are clear
Shall we ignore the remembrance of you if you are an extravagant people?
Shall we turn away from you and leave you, O polytheists, to do what you think?
We do not remind you of Our punishment because you are a polytheist people
How many prophets We sent among the first two
Not a single prophet came to them except that they mocked him
We were destroyed with more brutality than them, and it went on like the first ones
How many prophets did We send, O Muhammad, in the first two centuries?
And no prophet will come to any of the first nations calling them to guidance
Unless they mocked him mockingly, just as your people mocked you, O Muhammad
We were destroyed more brutally than those who mocked their prophets
They did not defeat us with their strength and brutality
And they were not able to withstand our punishment when it came to them
Those who are weaker than themselves are free and unable to abstain
And those polytheists who mocked you went on to say, “Like us in their examples of denying Our Messengers.”
Let those who mock you, O Muhammad, expect our punishment
Like what we made permissible for those
And if you ask them who created the heavens and the earth?
They would say, “He created them, the Mighty, the All-Knowing.”
Who made the earth a cradle for you and made paths therein for you that you may be guided
And if you ask, O Muhammad, these polytheists from your people
Who created the seven heavens and the earth
To say that their dear creation is in His power and in His vengeance against His enemies
The One who knows them and the things in them
Who prepared the earth for you
So He made it a platform for you to walk on with your feet
He made easy for you roads for you to pass from town to town
So that you can be guided by these paths to wherever you want from the countries
And He sent down water from the sky in measure, so spread it to us
So We spread therein a clean town. This is how you will emerge
And He sent down from the sky water as much as you need
He did not make it like a flood so that it would be a torment
Do not make it too small so that the plant does not grow
So we revived with it a town from your country that was barren and had neither vegetation nor crops
We also produced with this water plants and crops
Likewise, O people, you will emerge after your annihilation on earth
And He who created all pairs and made for you ships and livestock that you ride
So that you may stand on His back and then remember the blessing of your Lord
If you stand on it and say, Glory be to Him who has subjected this to us, and we would not have been able to associate with Him
And to our Lord we will turn
And He who created everything and married it
He created males from females in pairs, and females from males in pairs
And He made ships for you to ride on the seas
Among the livestock are what you ride on land
Such as camels, horses, mules and donkeys
So that you may stand on the backs of what you ride
Then remember the blessing of your Lord by subjugating it to you if you are satisfied with it
So they magnified him and glorified him
And you say, “In honor of God, who has subjected to us this ship and livestock that we rode.”
What the polytheists describe
We were neither able nor able to control him
And to our Lord after our death we will return to Him
And they made him a part of His servants
Man is clearly ungrateful
Or did He take daughters from what He created and describe you as sons?
These polytheists made God a share of His creation
By saying that the angels are the daughters of God
Man is eager for the blessings of his Lord
His disbelief shows his blessings upon him who contemplates him with the thought of his heart
Your Lord, you ignorant ones, has taken from what He creates daughters
And He saved you with children and made them yours
And if someone gives good news of something, he gives an example to the Most Merciful
His face remained black and he was gloomy
And if one of these polytheists preached something similar to God
His resemblance is similar, and that is how he described him, that he had daughters
His face remained black from the bad news he had experienced, and he was sad
Or one who is initiated into a solution while he is in a dispute without being clear.
And they made the angels, who are servants of the Most Merciful, female.
Make their creation bear witness, their testimony will be recorded and they will be questioned.
And they made the angels of God, who are His creation and His servants, daughters of God.
They made them witness this and they knew it. Their testimonies will be recorded.
And they will be asked about their testimony in the Hereafter.
To provide proof of its truth, but they will not find a way to do so.
And they say, “If the Most Gracious had willed, We would not have worshiped them.” They have no knowledge of that. They only lie.
Or did We give them a Book before it, so they adhere to it?
He said: These polytheists are from Quraish
If the Most Gracious had willed, we would not have worshiped our idols
But there was no punishment imposed on us for our worship of it because of His satisfaction with us
They have no knowledge of the truth of what they say about that
But they say it deceitfully and lying
We have not given these hypocrites a book of the truth of what they say before this Qur’an which We have sent down to you, O Muhammad
They adhere to that book and work by it
Rather, they said, “We found our fathers following a nation, and we are guided in their footsteps.”
We did not give these people a book from Us
But they said, “We found our fathers who were before us following a religion and religion.”
We follow in the footsteps of our fathers in their religion, following their method
Thus, just as these polytheists from Quraish did, so did those who disbelieved in God before them
They said the same thing
We did not send messengers before you, O Muhammad, to any town to its people
Except what their leaders and elders said
We found our fathers to be of a sect and religion
We follow their approach and method, emulating their actions