Al-Asr
سورة العصرThis is the Arabic text of the Tafsīr al-Jalālayn of Jalāl al-Dīn al-Maḥallī and Jalāl al-Dīn as-Suyūṭī as the OpenITI corpus has it, from the copy of altafsir.com that the COBHUNI project of Hamburg University took: only the commentary on the verses, with no introductions, no edition and no pagination. Nobody has compared it with a printed book or a manuscript, and no scholar has reviewed it. Each passage stands beside the verses it comments on, which are the Qur’ān text of Tanzil, shown as it is there. Beneath each passage stands its English translation by Feras Hamza, as the copy of Tarteel’s Quranic Universal Library has it; nobody has compared that copy with the printed book either.
Text fromOpenITICC BY-NC-SA 4.0altafsir.comtaken 2026-10-21English translation: Feras Hamza, Tafsir al-Jalalayn (Fons Vitae, 2008), as published at altafsir.com by the Royal Aal al-Bayt Institute for Islamic Thought, from the copy of Tarteel’s Quranic Universal Library. altafsir.comQUL
وَٱلْعَصْرِ 1
1 والعصر } الدهر، أو ما بعد الزوال إلى الغروب، أو صلاة العصر.
By Time! — or [it ‘asr can mean the period] from the declining of the sun to sunset, or [it may denote] the afternoon prayer.
إِنَّ ٱلْإِنسَـٰنَ لَفِى خُسْرٍ 2
{ إن الإنسن } الجنس { لفى خسر } في تجارته.
Verily man (al-insān: the generic) is in [a state of] loss, in all his bargaining,
إِلَّا ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوا۟ وَعَمِلُوا۟ ٱلصَّـٰلِحَـٰتِ وَتَوَاصَوْا۟ بِٱلْحَقِّ وَتَوَاصَوْا۟ بِٱلصَّبْرِ 3
{ إلا الذين ءامنوا وعملوا الصلحت } فليسوا في خسران { وتواصوا } أوصى بعضهم بعضا { بالحق } أي الإيمان { وتواصوا بالصبر } على الطاعة وعن المعصية.
except those who believe and perform righteous deeds, they are not in [a state of] loss, and enjoin one another to [follow] the truth, faith, and enjoin one another to patience, in [maintaining] obedience and in refraining from [acts of] disobedience.