An-Naba
سورة النبإThis 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
عَمَّ يَتَسَآءَلُونَ 1
{ عم } عن أي شيء { يتساءلون } يسأل بعض قريش بعضا.
About what, about what thing, are they, the people of Quraysh, questioning one another?
عَنِ ٱلنَّبَإِ ٱلْعَظِيمِ 2
{ عن النبإ العظيم } بيان لذلك الشيء والاستفهام لتفخيمه وهو ما جاء به النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم من القرآن المشتمل على البعث وغيره.
About the awesome tiding ([this is] the explication of that ‘thing’; the interrogative is meant to emphasise its magnitude) — this [awesome tiding] is the Qur’ān, comprising [news of] the Resurrection and so on, which the Prophet (s) brought —
ٱلَّذِى هُمْ فِيهِ مُخْتَلِفُونَ 3
{ الذى هم فيه مختلفون } فالمؤمنون يثبتونه والكافرون ينكرونه.
concerning which they are at variance, for the believers affirm it, while the disbelievers repudiate it.
كَلَّا سَيَعْلَمُونَ 4
{ كلا } ردع { سيعلمون } ما يحل بهم على إنكارهم له.
No indeed! — a disavowal — they will come to know, what will befall them for their rejection of it.
ثُمَّ كَلَّا سَيَعْلَمُونَ 5
{ ثم كلا سيعلمون } تأكيد وجيء فيه ب «ثم» للإيذان بأن الوعيد الثاني أشد من الأول، ثم أومأ تعالى إلى القدرة على البعث فقال:
Again, no indeed! They will come to know! ([reiterated] for emphasis; thumma is added here to declare that the second threat of chastisement is more severe than the first). God, exalted be He, then alludes to His power to resurrect, saying:
أَلَمْ نَجْعَلِ ٱلْأَرْضَ مِهَـٰدًا 6
{ ألم نجعل الأرض مهدا } فراشا كالمهد.
Have We not made the earth a cradle, a bed, like a cradle,
وَٱلْجِبَالَ أَوْتَادًا 7
{ والجبال أوتادا } تثبت بها الأرض كما تثبت الخيام بالأوتاد والاستفهام للتقرير.
and the mountains pegs?, with which the earth is tied down like tents are tied down with pegs (the interrogative is meant as an affirmative).
وَخَلَقْنَـٰكُمْ أَزْوَٰجًا 8
{ وخلقنكم أزوجا } ذكورا وإناثا.
And created you in pairs?, males and females,
وَجَعَلْنَا نَوْمَكُمْ سُبَاتًا 9
{ وجعلنا نومكم سباتا } راحة لأبدانكم.
and made your sleep for rest?, repose for your bodies,
وَجَعَلْنَا ٱلَّيْلَ لِبَاسًا 10
{ وجعلنا اليل لباسا } ساترا بسواده.
and made the night a cloak?, to cover you with its darkness,
وَجَعَلْنَا ٱلنَّهَارَ مَعَاشًا 11
{ وجعلنا النهار معاشا } وقتا للمعايش.
and made the day for livelihood?, a time for seeking livelihood,
وَبَنَيْنَا فَوْقَكُمْ سَبْعًا شِدَادًا 12
{ وبنينا فوقكم سبعا } سبع سموات { شدادا } جمع شديدة، أي قوية محكمة لا يؤثر فيها مرور الزمان.
and built above you seven mighty ones?, seven heavens (shidād is the plural of shadīda) that is to say, strong and sturdy unaffected by the passage of time,