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Tafsīr al-Jalālayn
Sūrah 52

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سورة الطور

This 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

Verse 1

وَٱلطُّورِ 1

{ والطور } أي الجبل الذي كلم الله عليه موسى.

By the Mount, that is, the [name of the] mountain on which God spoke to Moses,

Verse 2

وَكِتَـٰبٍ مَّسْطُورٍ 2

{ وكتب مسطور }.

and an inscribed Book,

Verse 3

فِى رَقٍّ مَّنشُورٍ 3

{ فى رق منشور } أي التوراة أو القرآن.

on an unrolled parchment, that is, the Torah or the Qur’ān.

Verse 4

وَٱلْبَيْتِ ٱلْمَعْمُورِ 4

{ والبيت المعمور } هو في السماء الثالثة أو السادسة أو السابعة بحيال الكعبة يزوره كل يوم سبعون ألف ملك بالطواف والصلاة لا يعودون إليه أبدا.

By the [greatly] frequented House — which is [located] in the third, or the sixth or the seventh heaven, directly above the Ka‘ba; it is visited every day by seventy thousand angels, circumambulating it and performing prayers [around it], and never returning to it;

Verse 5

وَٱلسَّقْفِ ٱلْمَرْفُوعِ 5

{ والسقف المرفوع } أي السماء.

and the raised roof, that is to say, the heaven,

Verse 6

وَٱلْبَحْرِ ٱلْمَسْجُورِ 6

{ والبحر المسجور } أي المملوء.

and the swarming sea: that is to say, the one that is filled:

Verse 7

إِنَّ عَذَابَ رَبِّكَ لَوَٰقِعٌ 7

{ إن عذاب ربك لواقع } لنازل بمستحقه.

lo! your Lord’s chastisement will assuredly take place, it will assuredly come down on those who deserve it;

Verse 8

مَّا لَهُۥ مِن دَافِعٍ 8

{ ما له من دافع } عنه.

there is none that can avert it, from such [a deserving one].

Verse 9

يَوْمَ تَمُورُ ٱلسَّمَآءُ مَوْرًا 9

{ يوم } معمول لواقع { تمور السماء مورا } تتحرك وتدور.

On the day (yawma is operated by la-wāqi‘un, ‘will assuredly take place’) when the heaven will heave with a great heaving, [when it will] move and spin,

Verse 10

وَتَسِيرُ ٱلْجِبَالُ سَيْرًا 10

{ وتسير الجبال سيرا } تصير

هبآء منثورا

[23:25] وذلك في يوم القيامة.

and the mountains move with a great motion, becoming scattered dust, this is the Day of Resurrection.

Verse 11

فَوَيْلٌ يَوْمَئِذٍ لِّلْمُكَذِّبِينَ 11

{ فويل } شدة عذاب { يومئذ للمكذبين } للرسل.

Woe then, terrible chastisement [will come], on that day to the deniers, of the messengers,

Verse 12

ٱلَّذِينَ هُمْ فِى خَوْضٍ يَلْعَبُونَ 12

{ الذين هم فى خوض } باطل { يلعبون } أي يتشاغلون بكفرهم.

those who play around in vain talk, [in] falsehood, that is to say, those who are busily engaged with their disbelief;

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