Al-Qadr
سورة القدرThis 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
إِنَّآ أَنزَلْنَـٰهُ فِى لَيْلَةِ ٱلْقَدْرِ 1
{ إنآ أنزلنه } أي القرآن جملة واحدة من اللوح المحفوظ إلى السماء الدنيا { فى ليلة القدر } أي الشرف والعظم.
Lo! We revealed it, that is, the Qur’ān, in its entirety, [sending it down] from the Preserved Tablet to the heaven of this world, on the Night of Ordainment, that is, [the Night] of great eminence.
وَمَآ أَدْرَىٰكَ مَا لَيْلَةُ ٱلْقَدْرِ 2
{ وما أدراك } أعلمك يا محمد { ما ليلة القدر } تعظيم لشأنها وتعجيب منه.
And what will show you, [what] will make known to you, O Muhammad (s), what the Night of Ordainment is? — [intended] to emphasise its great status and to provoke marvel at it.
لَيْلَةُ ٱلْقَدْرِ خَيْرٌ مِّنْ أَلْفِ شَهْرٍ 3
{ ليلة القدر خير من ألف شهر } ليس فيها ليلة القدر فالعمل الصالح فيها خير منه في ألف شهر ليست فيها.
The Night of Ordainment is better than a thousand months, in which there is no Night of Ordainment, for a righteous deed on that Night is better than one [performed] for a thousand months without it.
تَنَزَّلُ ٱلْمَلَـٰٓئِكَةُ وَٱلرُّوحُ فِيهَا بِإِذْنِ رَبِّهِم مِّن كُلِّ أَمْرٍ 4
{ تنزل الملئكة } بحذف إحدى التاءين من الأصل { والروح } أي جبريل { فيها } في الليلة { بإذن ربهم } بأمره { من كل أمر } قضاه الله فيها لتلك السنة إلى قابل و «من» سببية بمعنى الباء.
The angels and the Spirit, namely, Gabriel, descend (tanazzalu: one of the two original tā’ letters [of tatanazzalu] has been omitted) in it, on that night, by the leave of their Lord, by His command, with every command, that God has decreed from that year to the following one (min is causative functioning as bi, ‘with’).
سَلَـٰمٌ هِىَ حَتَّىٰ مَطْلَعِ ٱلْفَجْرِ 5
{ سلم هى } خبر مقدم ومبتدأ { حتى مطلع الفجر } بفتح اللام وكسرها إلى وقت طلوعه. جعلت سلاما لكثرة السلام فيها من الملائكة لا تمر بمؤمن ولا بمؤمنة إلا سلمت عليه.
It is peaceful (salāmun hiya: a predicate preceding the subject) until the rising of the dawn (read matla‘ or matli‘), until the time it rises: it is peaceful because of the numerous salutations [of peace] (salām) spoken in it by the angels, who, every time they come across a believing man or believing woman, bid him peace.