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Tafsīr al-Jalālayn
Sūrah 77

Al-Mursalaat

سورة المرسلات

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

وَٱلْمُرْسَلَـٰتِ عُرْفًا 1

{ والمرسلت عرفا } أي الرياح متتابعة كعرف الفرس يتلو بعضه بعضا ونصبه على الحال.

By those sent in succession (‘urfan), that is, [by] the winds that follow [one another] in succession, like the mane (‘urf) of a horse, one part [of hair] coming after the other (‘urfan is in the accusative because it is a circumstantial qualifier);

Verse 2

فَٱلْعَـٰصِفَـٰتِ عَصْفًا 2

{ فالعصفت عصفا } الرياح الشديدة.

by the raging hurricanes, the violent winds;

Verse 3

وَٱلنَّـٰشِرَٰتِ نَشْرًا 3

{ والنشرت نشرا } الرياح تنشر المطر.

by the sweeping spreaders, [by] the winds that scatter the rains;

Verse 4

فَٱلْفَـٰرِقَـٰتِ فَرْقًا 4

{ فالفرقت فرقا } أي آيات القرآن تفرق بين الحق والباطل، والحلال والحرام.

by the decisive discriminators, that is, [by] the verses of the Qur’ān, which discriminate between truth and falsehood, and between what is lawful and what is unlawful;

Verse 5

فَٱلْمُلْقِيَـٰتِ ذِكْرًا 5

{ فالملقيت ذكرا } أي الملائكة تنزل بالوحي إلى الأنبياء والرسل يلقون الوحي إلى الأمم.

by the casters of the remembrance, that is, [by] angels that descend with the revelation upon the prophets and messengers, casting the revelation onto the [various] communities [of mankind],

Verse 6

عُذْرًا أَوْ نُذْرًا 6

{ عذرا أو نذرا } أي للإعذار والإنذار من الله تعالى وفي قراءة بضم ذال نذرا وقرىء بضم ذال (عذرا).

to excuse or to warn, that is to say, in order to excuse or to warn on behalf of God, exalted be He (a variant reading [for nudhran and ‘udhran] has nudhuran and ‘udhuran).

Verse 7

إِنَّمَا تُوعَدُونَ لَوَٰقِعٌ 7

{ إنما توعدون } أي يا كفار مكة من البعث والعذاب { لواقع } كائن لا محالة.

Surely that which you are promised, O disbelievers of Mecca, in the way of resurrection and chastisement, will befall: it will be, without any doubt.

Verse 8

فَإِذَا ٱلنُّجُومُ طُمِسَتْ 8

{ فإذا النجوم طمست } محي نورها.

So when the stars are obliterated, [when] their light is extinguished,

Verse 9

وَإِذَا ٱلسَّمَآءُ فُرِجَتْ 9

{ وإذا السماء فرجت } شقت.

and when the heaven is rent asunder,

Verse 10

وَإِذَا ٱلْجِبَالُ نُسِفَتْ 10

{ وإذا الجبال نسفت } فتتت وسيرت.

and when the mountains are blown away, crushed to pieces and blown in the air,

Verse 11

وَإِذَا ٱلرُّسُلُ أُقِّتَتْ 11

{ وإذا الرسل أقتت } بالواو (أقتت) وبالهمزة بدلا منها، أي جمعت لوقت.

and when the time is set for the [testimony of the] messengers (read uqqitat or wuqqitat), that is to say, [when] they are gathered to an appointed time,

Verse 12

لِأَىِّ يَوْمٍ أُجِّلَتْ 12

{ لأي يوم } ليوم عظيم { أجلت } للشهادة على أممهم بالتبليغ.

For what day — for a tremendous day — has it been appointed?, [it has been appointed] for witnessing [of the messengers] against their communities [to the effect] that they delivered [their messages from God].

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