Anwar Al-Quran

Verses 1–5

27. An-Naml · The Ant

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بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ

طسٓ ۚ تِلْكَ ءَايَٰتُ ٱلْقُرْءَانِ وَكِتَابٍۢ مُّبِينٍ

27:1Ta, Seen. These are the signs of the Quran and a manifest Book,2

هُدًۭى وَبُشْرَىٰ لِلْمُؤْمِنِينَ

27:2a guidance and good news for the faithful

ٱلَّذِينَ يُقِيمُونَ ٱلصَّلَوٰةَ وَيُؤْتُونَ ٱلزَّكَوٰةَ وَهُم بِٱلْءَاخِرَةِ هُمْ يُوقِنُونَ

27:3—those who maintain the prayer and pay the zakat, and who are certain of the Hereafter.

إِنَّ ٱلَّذِينَ لَا يُؤْمِنُونَ بِٱلْءَاخِرَةِ زَيَّنَّا لَهُمْ أَعْمَٰلَهُمْ فَهُمْ يَعْمَهُونَ

27:4As for those who do not believe in the Hereafter, We have made their deeds seem decorous to them, and so they are bewildered.3

أُو۟لَٰٓئِكَ ٱلَّذِينَ لَهُمْ سُوٓءُ ٱلْعَذَابِ وَهُمْ فِى ٱلْءَاخِرَةِ هُمُ ٱلْأَخْسَرُونَ

27:5They are the ones for whom there is a terrible punishment, and they are the ones who will be the biggest losers in the Hereafter.

Tafsir

Commentary on this passage

Verse 3

2.The Holy Quran has often announced that faith has no status without good deeds and deeds should also be of two kinds, individual and social that the right of people is also fulfilled and the right of Allah should also not be trampled. Islam has made prayer obligatory for the fulfillment of the right of Allah and for the right of human beings it made obligatory the payment of Zakat and finally stated regarding faith on Resurrection Day so that it should be clarified that there is no importance of this prayer and Zakat which are performed according to the custom or by force of community. On the contrary. in its background the faith in Hereafter is necessary. As this faith is the fulcrum of reward in the hereafter if you have no faith you cannot be deserve any reward and status.

Footnotes

Explanations of words and phrases in these verses

  1. Benefit

    This Surah is also called Surah Sulaiman because the major part of this Surah deals with the discussion of Sulaiman (a.s.). It is also included among the ‘Ta-Seens’ because it begins with the letters Ta and Seen. (e.g. Shura, Naml and Qasas).

  2. 2

    Quran is Quran from the aspect of recitation and Kitab (Book) from the aspect of its writing and in reality it is a discourse which is sometimes referred to as a reading and sometimes as a writing.

  3. 3

    This embellishment is sometimes related to Allah and sometimes to Shaitan. The purpose is to state that Shaitan beautifies the world to mislead the people and Allah on seeing the disbelief1ets it remain like that so that He could punish them severely. So that those who have become deviated may continue to stumble.