Al-Mutaffifin
سورة المطففينThis 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
وَيْلٌ لِّلْمُطَفِّفِينَ 1
{ ويل } كلمة عذاب أو واد في جهنم { للمطففين }.
Woe (waylun: a term entailing chastisement; or [it is the name of] a valley in Hell) to the defrauders:
ٱلَّذِينَ إِذَا ٱكْتَالُوا۟ عَلَى ٱلنَّاسِ يَسْتَوْفُونَ 2
{ الذين إذا اكتالوا على } أي من { الناس يستوفون } الكيل.
those who, when they take measure from people, demand [it] in full, the measure;
وَإِذَا كَالُوهُمْ أَو وَّزَنُوهُمْ يُخْسِرُونَ 3
{ وإذا كالوهم } أي كالوا لهم { أو وزنوهم } أي وزنوا لهم { يخسرون } ينقصون الكيل أو الوزن.
but [who] when they measure for them or weigh for them, they cause [them] loss, they diminish [for them] the measure or the weight.
أَلَا يَظُنُّ أُو۟لَـٰٓئِكَ أَنَّهُم مَّبْعُوثُونَ 4
{ ألا } استفهام توبيخ { يظن } يتيقن { أولئك أنهم مبعوثون }.
Do such [individuals] not know for certain (alā indicates an interrogative of rebuke) that they will be resurrected
لِيَوْمٍ عَظِيمٍ 5
{ ليوم عظيم } أي فيه وهو يوم القيامة.
for an awful day, that is to say, on it, and this is the Day of Resurrection,
يَوْمَ يَقُومُ ٱلنَّاسُ لِرَبِّ ٱلْعَـٰلَمِينَ 6
{ يوم } بدل من محل ليوم فناصبه مبعوثون { يقوم الناس } من قبورهم { لرب العلمين } الخلائق لأجل أمره وحسابه وجزائه.
a day when (yawma is a substitution for the [syntactical] locus of li-yawmin, ‘to an [awful] day’, and as such is in the accusative because of [the verb] mab‘ūthūna, ‘will be resurrected’) mankind will rise, from their graves, before the Lord of the Worlds?, [the Lord of] all creatures, for His affair, His reckoning and His requital.
كَلَّآ إِنَّ كِتَـٰبَ ٱلْفُجَّارِ لَفِى سِجِّينٍ 7
{ كلا } حقا { إن كتب الفجار } أي كتاب أعمال الكفار { لفى سجين } قيل هو كتاب جامع لأعمال الشياطين والكفرة، وقيل هو مكان أسفل الأرض السابعة وهو محل إبليس وجنوده.
Nay!, verily, the record of the profligates, that is to say, the record of the deeds of the disbelievers, is in Sijjīn — this is said to be a book containing [the record of] all the deeds of the devils and the disbelievers; but it is also said to be a location in the lowermost part of the seventh earth, the place of Satan and his hosts.
وَمَآ أَدْرَىٰكَ مَا سِجِّينٌ 8
{ وما أدرك ما سجين } ما كتاب سجين؟.
And what would tell you what Sijjīn is?, what the book of Sijjīn is.
كِتَـٰبٌ مَّرْقُومٌ 9
{ كتب مرقوم } مختوم.
[It is] a sealed book.
وَيْلٌ يَوْمَئِذٍ لِّلْمُكَذِّبِينَ 10
{ ويل يومئذ للمكذبين }.
Woe to the deniers on that day,
ٱلَّذِينَ يُكَذِّبُونَ بِيَوْمِ ٱلدِّينِ 11
{ الذين يكذبون بيوم الدين } الجزاء بدل أو بيان للمكذبين.
who deny the Day of Judgement, [the Day of] Requital (alladhīna yukadhdhibūna bi-yawmi’l-dīn: either a substitution for or an explication of al-mukadhdhibīna, ‘the deniers’);
وَمَا يُكَذِّبُ بِهِۦٓ إِلَّا كُلُّ مُعْتَدٍ أَثِيمٍ 12
{ وما يكذب به إلا كل معتد } متجاوز الحد { أثيم } صيغة مبالغة.
and none deny it but every sinful (the form [athīm] is hyperbolic) transgressor, overstepping the bounds.