Al-Humaza
سورة الهمزةThis 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
وَيْلٌ لِّكُلِّ هُمَزَةٍ لُّمَزَةٍ 1
{ ويل } كلمة عذاب، أو واد في جهنم { لكل همزة لمزة } أي كثير الهمز واللمز، أي الغيبة. نزلت فيمن كان يغتاب النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم والمؤمنين كأمية بن خلف والوليد بن المغيرة وغيرهما.
Woe (waylun: an expression implying chastisement) to every backbiter, [who is a] slanderer, frequently engaging in backbiting and slander, that is to say, defamation — this was revealed regarding those who slandered the Prophet (s) and the believers, the likes of Umayya b. Khalaf, al-Walīd b. al-Mughīra and others —
ٱلَّذِى جَمَعَ مَالًا وَعَدَّدَهُۥ 2
{ الذى جمع } بالتخفيف والتشديد { مالا وعدده } أحصاه وجعله عدة لحوادث الدهر.
who amasses (read jama‘a or jamma‘a) wealth and counts it over, keeping count of it and stores it aside as a provision against the [unforeseeable] calamities of time.
يَحْسَبُ أَنَّ مَالَهُۥٓ أَخْلَدَهُۥ 3
{ يحسب } لجهله { أن ماله أخلده } جعله خالدا لا يموت.
He thinks, in his ignorance, that his wealth will make him immortal, never to die.
كَلَّا ۖ لَيُنۢبَذَنَّ فِى ٱلْحُطَمَةِ 4
{ كلا } ردع { لينبذن } جواب قسم محذوف أي ليطرحن { فى الحطمة } التي تحطم كل ما ألقي فيها.
Nay! — a repudiation — He will surely be flung (la-yunbadhanna is the response to an omitted oath), that is, he will be hurled down, into the Crusher, that crushes everything that is thrown into it.
وَمَآ أَدْرَىٰكَ مَا ٱلْحُطَمَةُ 5
{ ومآ أدراك } أعلمك { ما الحطمة }.
And what will show you, [what] will make known to you, what the Crusher is?
نَارُ ٱللَّهِ ٱلْمُوقَدَةُ 6
{ نار الله الموقدة } المسعرة.
[It is] the fire of God, kindled, set ablaze,
ٱلَّتِى تَطَّلِعُ عَلَى ٱلْأَفْـِٔدَةِ 7
{ التى تطلع } تشرف { على الأفئدة } القلوب فتحرقها وألمها أشد من ألم غيرها للطفها.
which peers over the hearts, to burn them — the pain of which is much more severe than any other because of the delicate nature [of the heart].
إِنَّهَا عَلَيْهِم مُّؤْصَدَةٌ 8
{ إنها عليهم } جمع الضمير رعاية لمعنى «كل» { مؤصدة } بالهمز وبالواو بدلها مطبقة.
Lo! it will be closed in (mu’sada or mūsada) on them (‘alayhim, ‘on them’: the plural pronoun takes into account the [plural] import of kull, ‘every’),
فِى عَمَدٍ مُّمَدَّدَةٍۭ 9
{ فى عمد } بضم الحرفين وبفتحهما { ممددة } صفة لما قبله فتكون النار داخل العمد.
in outstretched (mumaddadatin is an adjective qualifying the preceding [noun, ‘amadin]) columns (read ‘umudin or ‘amadin), and will therefore be inside the columns.