Anwar Al-Quran

Verses 1–5

39. Az-Zumar · The Groups

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بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ

تَنزِيلُ ٱلْكِتَٰبِ مِنَ ٱللَّهِ ٱلْعَزِيزِ ٱلْحَكِيمِ

39:1The [gradual] sending down of the Book is from Allah, the All-mighty, the All-wise.

إِنَّآ أَنزَلْنَآ إِلَيْكَ ٱلْكِتَٰبَ بِٱلْحَقِّ فَٱعْبُدِ ٱللَّهَ مُخْلِصًۭا لَّهُ ٱلدِّينَ

39:2Indeed We have sent down the Book to you with the truth; so worship Allah, putting exclusive faith in Him.

أَلَا لِلَّهِ ٱلدِّينُ ٱلْخَالِصُ ۚ وَٱلَّذِينَ ٱتَّخَذُوا۟ مِن دُونِهِۦٓ أَوْلِيَآءَ مَا نَعْبُدُهُمْ إِلَّا لِيُقَرِّبُونَآ إِلَى ٱللَّهِ زُلْفَىٰٓ إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ يَحْكُمُ بَيْنَهُمْ فِى مَا هُمْ فِيهِ يَخْتَلِفُونَ ۗ إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ لَا يَهْدِى مَنْ هُوَ كَٰذِبٌۭ كَفَّارٌۭ

39:3Indeed, only exclusive faith is worthy of Allah, and those who take other as awliya besides Him [claiming,] ‘We only worship them so that they may bring us near to Allah,’ Allah will judge between them concerning that about which they differ. Indeed Allah does not guide someone who is a liar and an ingrate.2

لَّوْ أَرَادَ ٱللَّهُ أَن يَتَّخِذَ وَلَدًۭا لَّٱصْطَفَىٰ مِمَّا يَخْلُقُ مَا يَشَآءُ ۚ سُبْحَٰنَهُۥ ۖ هُوَ ٱللَّهُ ٱلْوَٰحِدُ ٱلْقَهَّارُ

39:4Had Allah intended to take a son, He could have chosen from those He has created whatever He wished. Immaculate is He! He is Allah, the One, the All-paramount.

خَلَقَ ٱلسَّمَٰوَٰتِ وَٱلْأَرْضَ بِٱلْحَقِّ ۖ يُكَوِّرُ ٱلَّيْلَ عَلَى ٱلنَّهَارِ وَيُكَوِّرُ ٱلنَّهَارَ عَلَى ٱلَّيْلِ ۖ وَسَخَّرَ ٱلشَّمْسَ وَٱلْقَمَرَ ۖ كُلٌّۭ يَجْرِى لِأَجَلٍۢ مُّسَمًّى ۗ أَلَا هُوَ ٱلْعَزِيزُ ٱلْغَفَّٰرُ

39:5He created the heavens and the earth with consummate wisdom. He winds the night over the day, and winds the day over the night, and He has disposed the sun and the moon, each moving for a specified term. Indeed, He is the All-mighty, the All-forgiver!

Tafsir

Commentary on this passage

Verse 5

1.This is manifest to all that day and night is not the name of a bed sheet or a curtain that they should be folded and not a question to be told on each other. As a fact, it points to the spherical shape of earth and to its movement and when spherical things move, the direction comes to opposite of the original destroying the earlier particularizations. The same condition is of the earth and the sun that due to the movement, the earth remains facing the sun from one side and remains opposite from the other side and in this way the direction facing to sun is called a day and opposite direction is called night. After that the result of its movement is that opposite directions turn contrary such as the sheet of the day should be folded and sheet of the night spread and if the curtain of night folds, the light of the day is dispersed. We find the clear sign of the spherical earth and its movement in this blessed verse.

Footnotes

Explanations of words and phrases in these verses

  1. 2

    Sincere religion does not mean that it should not have mention of anyone except Allah. And no one should be accorded respect and honour except Allah. Sincere religion means that servitude should be for Allah alone and no one should be taken a means (waseela) without His permission. Just as the idol worshippers did. That they appointed them as waseela on their own accord while it is against Pure religion.

  2. Benefit

    Regarding Tanzil and Inzaal some scholars think that Tanzil is descent in stages and Inzaal is sending down all at once. And some think that lnzaal is applicable to both types of sending down. The holy Quran has used both the words at various places, one of whom indicates the revelation in the Shab-e-Qadr (Night of Power) and the other refers to revelation in 23 years.