Verses 1–15
50. Qaaf · The letter Qaaf
Makkan45 verses
بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ
قٓ ۚ وَٱلْقُرْءَانِ ٱلْمَجِيدِ
بَلْ عَجِبُوٓا۟ أَن جَآءَهُم مُّنذِرٌۭ مِّنْهُمْ فَقَالَ ٱلْكَٰفِرُونَ هَٰذَا شَىْءٌ عَجِيبٌ
50:2Indeed they consider it odd that a warner from among themselves should have come to them. So the faithless say, ‘This is an odd thing.’
أَءِذَا مِتْنَا وَكُنَّا تُرَابًۭا ۖ ذَٰلِكَ رَجْعٌۢ بَعِيدٌۭ
50:3‘What! When we are dead and have become dust, [shall we be raised again]? That is a far-fetched return!’
قَدْ عَلِمْنَا مَا تَنقُصُ ٱلْأَرْضُ مِنْهُمْ ۖ وَعِندَنَا كِتَٰبٌ حَفِيظٌۢ
50:4We know what the earth diminishes from them, and with Us is a preserving Book.2
بَلْ كَذَّبُوا۟ بِٱلْحَقِّ لَمَّا جَآءَهُمْ فَهُمْ فِىٓ أَمْرٍۢ مَّرِيجٍ
50:5Indeed, they denied the truth when it came to them; so they are now in a perplexed state of affairs.3
أَفَلَمْ يَنظُرُوٓا۟ إِلَى ٱلسَّمَآءِ فَوْقَهُمْ كَيْفَ بَنَيْنَٰهَا وَزَيَّنَّٰهَا وَمَا لَهَا مِن فُرُوجٍۢ
50:6Have they not, then, observed the heaven above them, how We have built it and adorned it, and that there are no cracks in it?
وَٱلْأَرْضَ مَدَدْنَٰهَا وَأَلْقَيْنَا فِيهَا رَوَٰسِىَ وَأَنۢبَتْنَا فِيهَا مِن كُلِّ زَوْجٍۭ بَهِيجٍۢ
50:7And We spread out the earth, and cast in it firm mountains, and caused every delightful kind [of vegetation] to grow in it.*
تَبْصِرَةًۭ وَذِكْرَىٰ لِكُلِّ عَبْدٍۢ مُّنِيبٍۢ
50:8[In this there is] an insight and admonition for every penitent servant.
وَنَزَّلْنَا مِنَ ٱلسَّمَآءِ مَآءًۭ مُّبَٰرَكًۭا فَأَنۢبَتْنَا بِهِۦ جَنَّٰتٍۢ وَحَبَّ ٱلْحَصِيدِ
50:9We send down from the sky salubrious water, with which We grow gardens and the grain which is harvested,4
وَٱلنَّخْلَ بَاسِقَٰتٍۢ لَّهَا طَلْعٌۭ نَّضِيدٌۭ
50:10and tall date palms with regularly set spathes,
رِّزْقًۭا لِّلْعِبَادِ ۖ وَأَحْيَيْنَا بِهِۦ بَلْدَةًۭ مَّيْتًۭا ۚ كَذَٰلِكَ ٱلْخُرُوجُ
50:11as a provision for Our servants, and with it We revive a dead country. Likewise will be the rising [from the dead].
كَذَّبَتْ قَبْلَهُمْ قَوْمُ نُوحٍۢ وَأَصْحَٰبُ ٱلرَّسِّ وَثَمُودُ
50:12The people of Noah denied before them, and [so did] the people of Rass and Thamud,
وَعَادٌۭ وَفِرْعَوْنُ وَإِخْوَٰنُ لُوطٍۢ
50:13and ‘Ad, Pharaoh, and the brethren of Lot,
وَأَصْحَٰبُ ٱلْأَيْكَةِ وَقَوْمُ تُبَّعٍۢ ۚ كُلٌّۭ كَذَّبَ ٱلرُّسُلَ فَحَقَّ وَعِيدِ
50:14and the inhabitants of Aykah and the people of Tubbac. Each [of them] impugned the apostles, and so My threat became due [against them].*
أَفَعَيِينَا بِٱلْخَلْقِ ٱلْأَوَّلِ ۚ بَلْ هُمْ فِى لَبْسٍۢ مِّنْ خَلْقٍۢ جَدِيدٍۢ
50:15Have We been exhausted by the first creation? No, they are in doubt about a new creation.
Tafsir
Commentary on this passage
Verse 4
1.The deniers of Qiyamat have created various doubts in the beliefs of Qiyamat. One of their objections is that many parts of the human body mix in the earth or a man is eaten by another and the parts of the former become the parts of the latter. Now if one of them were a Muslim and another infidel which of the parts will be punished and which of them will he rewarded?
The Almighty Allah has replied to these objections by his encompassing knowledge that all these problems are clear to Him and nothing is difficult for Him. He is capable of separating all the parts and also able to punish them in different ways.
Verse 6
2.It is the miracle of creation that in the vast sky there is neither any gap nor any joint otherwise even if two bricks are joined in a building their joint is visiible. Such a powerful Creator and One who has created so many thing from one water, is he not capable of raising the dead from the grave and reward or punish it as applicable? Which is that great feat that He cannot accomplish? Then the initial creation was also His handiwork. So one Who can create the Universe from nothing is surely capable of recreating man from dust. If man had remembered his original creation and had not been so forgetful, he would have believed in all the divine teachings and would have complete faith in Allah’s might.
Footnotes
Explanations of words and phrases in these verses
- 1
The reply of this oath is not given but the later verses show that it is with regard to the prophethood or the veracity of religion or for the advent of Qiyamat.
- 2
Kitabe Hafeez (The Protected Book) is actually the knowledge of Allah in which everything is protected and nothing is beyond the boundaries of His knowledge.
- 3
The infidels have denied prophethood but they are involved in a type of confusion that what excuse can be found. To call him magician or poet or madman or something else.
Benefit
In the 7th ayat the word Zawj indicates that in the whole world there is incidence of pairs and nothing is created without a pair. And it is the secret of the survival of species.
- 4
Indeed water is very beneficial that from it vegetation grows and orchards develop. It creates food-grains as well as dates and man gets sustenance also. It is the duty of man that he should at least have the awareness that One Who does all this can enliven the dead also. He can raise him as a new creation.
Benefit
In the 14th ayat there is mention of the denial ofprophethood of all the nations though each nation had denied only their particular prophet. This is so because the message of all prophets is one, therefore the denial of one of them amounts to denying all of them.