At-Takwir
سورة التكويرThis 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
إِذَا ٱلشَّمْسُ كُوِّرَتْ 1
{ إذا الشمس كورت } لففت وذهب بنورها.
When the sun is folded away, enfolded and stripped of its light,
وَإِذَا ٱلنُّجُومُ ٱنكَدَرَتْ 2
{ وإذا النجوم انكدرت } انقضت وتساقطت على الأرض.
and when the stars scatter, [when] they are extinguished and hurtle down towards the earth,
وَإِذَا ٱلْجِبَالُ سُيِّرَتْ 3
{ وإذا الجبال سيرت } ذهب بها عن وجه الأرض فصارت
هبآء منبثا
[6:56].
and when the mountains are set in motion, [when] they are blown away from the face of the earth, becoming as scattered dust,
وَإِذَا ٱلْعِشَارُ عُطِّلَتْ 4
{ وإذا العشار } النوق الحوامل { عطلت } تركت بلا راع أو بلا حلب لما دهم من الأمر، ولم يكن مال أعجب إليهم منها.
and when the pregnant camels are neglected, abandoned without a herdsman or anyone to milk them, on account of the matter that has come over them — even though [previously] no wealth was dearer to them than these [pregnant camels];
وَإِذَا ٱلْوُحُوشُ حُشِرَتْ 5
{ وإذا الوحوش حشرت } جمعت بعد البعث ليقتص لبعض من بعض ثم تصير ترابا.
and when the wild beasts are mustered, [when they are] brought together after being resurrected so that each of them may retaliate against the other, before becoming dust;
وَإِذَا ٱلْبِحَارُ سُجِّرَتْ 6
{ وإذا البحار سجرت } بالتخفيف والتشديد: أوقدت فصارت نارا.
and when the seas are set afire (read sujirat or sujjirat), [when] they are set alight and become [a mass of] fire;
وَإِذَا ٱلنُّفُوسُ زُوِّجَتْ 7
{ وإذا النفوس زوجت } قرنت بأجسادها.
and when the souls are coupled, [when they are] paired up with their bodies;
وَإِذَا ٱلْمَوْءُۥدَةُ سُئِلَتْ 8
{ وإذا الموءودة } الجارية تدفن حية خوف العار والحاجة { سئلت } تبكيتا لقاتلها.
and when the girl buried-alive, the young girl buried alive for fear of shame and impoverishment, asks — in rebuke of its slayer —
بِأَىِّ ذَنۢبٍ قُتِلَتْ 9
{ بأى ذنب قتلت }؟ وقرىء بكسر التاء حكاية لما تخاطب به وجوابها أن تقول: قتلت بلا ذنب.
for what sin she was slain (sa’alat, ‘asks’: a variant reading has su’ilat, ‘[she] is asked’, narrating the address directed to her, to which she then responds by saying, ‘I was slain without [having committed] any sin’);
وَإِذَا ٱلصُّحُفُ نُشِرَتْ 10
{ وإذا الصحف } صحف الأعمال { نشرت } بالتخفيف والتشديد فتحت وبسطت.
and when the scrolls, the scrolls containing the deeds, are unrolled (read nushirat or nushshirat), [when they are] unfolded and spread out;
وَإِذَا ٱلسَّمَآءُ كُشِطَتْ 11
{ وإذا السمآء كشطت } نزعت عن أماكنها كما ينزع الجلد عن الشاة.
and when the heaven is stripped off, torn away from its place, just as the skin of a sheep is stripped off;
وَإِذَا ٱلْجَحِيمُ سُعِّرَتْ 12
{ وإذا الجحيم } النار { سعرت } بالتخفيف والتشديد أججت.
and when the Hell-fire is set ablaze (read su‘irat or su‘‘irat), [when it is] set alight;