At-Takaathur
سورة التكاثرThis 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
أَلْهَىٰكُمُ ٱلتَّكَاثُرُ 1
{ ألهكم } شغلكم عن طاعة الله { التكاثر } التفاخر بالأموال والأولاد والرجال.
Rivalry [in worldly things], mutual vainglory about wealth, children and men, distracts you, preoccupies you [diverting you] from obedience to God,
حَتَّىٰ زُرْتُمُ ٱلْمَقَابِرَ 2
{ حتى زرتم المقابر } بأن متم فدفنتم فيها أو عددتم الموتى تكاثرا.
until you visit the graves, [either] in that you have died and then been buried in them, or [it means] to the extent that you [actually] count the dead as a something to rival one another by.
كَلَّا سَوْفَ تَعْلَمُونَ 3
{ كلا } ردع { سوف تعلمون }.
No indeed! — a disavowal. You will come to know!
ثُمَّ كَلَّا سَوْفَ تَعْلَمُونَ 4
{ ثم كلا سوف تعلمون } سوء عاقبة تفاخركم عند النزع، ثم في القبر.
Again, no indeed! You will come to know, the evil consequences of your mutual vainglory at the moment of the extraction [of the soul], then [you will come to know] in the grave.
كَلَّا لَوْ تَعْلَمُونَ عِلْمَ ٱلْيَقِينِ 5
{ كلا } حقا { لو تعلمون علم اليقين } أي علما يقينا عاقبة التفاخر ما اشتغلتم به.
No indeed! — verily — Were you to know with certain knowledge, the consequences of your vainglory, you would not preoccupy yourselves with it, [for]
لَتَرَوُنَّ ٱلْجَحِيمَ 6
{ لترون الجحيم } النار جواب قسم محذوف. وحذف منه لام الفعل وعينه وألقيت حركتها على الراء.
you would surely see hell-fire, the Fire (la-tarawunna’l-jahīma: this is the response to an omitted oath; the third consonant of the root of the verb [r-’-y] together with the second have been omitted, and its vowel has been transposed onto the rā’).
ثُمَّ لَتَرَوُنَّهَا عَيْنَ ٱلْيَقِينِ 7
{ ثم لترونها } تأكيد { عين اليقين } مصدر: لأن رأى وعاين، بمعنى واحد.
Again, you will surely see it — [repeated] for emphasis — with the eye of certainty (‘ayna is a verbal noun, as both ra’ā and ‘āyana have the same meaning).
ثُمَّ لَتُسْـَٔلُنَّ يَوْمَئِذٍ عَنِ ٱلنَّعِيمِ 8
{ ثم لتسئلن } حذف منه نون الرفع لتوالي النونات وواو ضمير الجمع لالتقاء الساكنين { يومئذ } يوم رؤيتها { عن النعيم } ما يلتذ به في الدنيا من الصحة والفراغ والأمن والمطعم والمشرب وغير ذلك.
Then, on that day, the day you see it, you will assuredly be questioned (la-tus’alunna: the nūn of the indicative has been omitted because of one nūn coming after the other; likewise [omitted] is the wāw indicating the plural person [of the verb] because of two unvocalised consonants coming together) about the comforts [of the world], the health, leisure, security, food, drink and other things which one enjoys in this world.