Al-Kaafiroon
سورة الكافرونThis 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
قُلْ يَـٰٓأَيُّهَا ٱلْكَـٰفِرُونَ 1
{ قل يأيها الكفرون }.
Say: ‘O disbelievers!
لَآ أَعْبُدُ مَا تَعْبُدُونَ 2
{ لا أعبد } في الحال { ما تعبدون } من الأصنام.
I do not worship, at present, what you worship, of idols,
وَلَآ أَنتُمْ عَـٰبِدُونَ مَآ أَعْبُدُ 3
{ ولا أنتم عبدون } في الحال { مآ أعبد } وهو الله تعالى وحده.
and you do not worship, at present, what I worship, and that is God, exalted be He, alone,
وَلَآ أَنَا۠ عَابِدٌ مَّا عَبَدتُّمْ 4
{ ولا أنآ عابد } في الاستقبال { ما عبدتم }.
nor will I worship, in the future, what you have worshipped,
وَلَآ أَنتُمْ عَـٰبِدُونَ مَآ أَعْبُدُ 5
{ ولا أنتم عبدون } في الاستقبال { مآ أعبد } علم الله منهم أنهم لا يؤمنون، وإطلاق «ما» على الله على وجه المقابلة.
nor will you worship, in the future, what I worship: God knew that they would never become believers (the use of [the inanimate] mā, ‘what’, to refer to God is meant to counter [the reference to ‘what thing’ they worship]).
لَكُمْ دِينُكُمْ وَلِىَ دِينِ 6
{ لكم دينكم } الشرك { ولى دين } الإسلام. وهذا قبل أن يؤمر بالحرب. وحذف ياء الإضافة القراء السبعة وقفا ووصلا. وأثبتها يعقوب في الحالين.
You have your religion, idolatry, and I have a religion’, Islam: this was [revealed] before he was commanded to wage war [against the idolaters] (all seven Qur’ānic readers omit the yā’ of the genitive possessive construction [in wa-liya dīni] whether with a pause or without; Ya‘qūb, however, retains it in both cases).