Quraish
سورة قريشThis 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
لِإِيلَـٰفِ قُرَيْشٍ 1
{ لإيلف قريش }.
[In gratitude] for the security of Quraysh,
إِۦلَـٰفِهِمْ رِحْلَةَ ٱلشِّتَآءِ وَٱلصَّيْفِ 2
{ إيلفهم } تأكيد وهو مصدر آلف بالمد { رحلة الشتآء } إلى اليمن { و } رحلة { الصيف } إلى الشام في كل عام يستعينون بالرحلتين للتجارة على المقام بمكة لخدمة البيت الذي هو فخرهم، وهم ولد النضر بن كنانة.
their security (īlāfihim: repeated for emphasis; it is a verbal noun from [the verb] ālafa) for the journey of winter, to Yemen, and, the journey, of summer, to Syria, every year: they made use of these two journeys to provide for their trade at the station [of Abraham] in Mecca, in order to attend to the House [of God], which was their source of pride; they [Quraysh] were the descendants of al-Nadr b. Kināna;
فَلْيَعْبُدُوا۟ رَبَّ هَـٰذَا ٱلْبَيْتِ 3
{ فليعبدوا } تعلق به ل «إيلاف» والفاء زائدة { رب هذا البيت }.
let them worship (fa’l-ya‘budū is semantically connected to li-ilāfi, ‘for the security’, the fā’ being extra) the Lord of this House,
ٱلَّذِىٓ أَطْعَمَهُم مِّن جُوعٍ وَءَامَنَهُم مِّنْ خَوْفٍۭ 4
{ الذى أطعمهم من جوع } أي من أجله { وءامنهم من خوف } أي من أجله وكان يصيبهم الجوع لعدم الزرع بمكة وخافوا جيش الفيل.
Who has fed them against, that is, on account of, hunger and made them secure from, that is, on account of, fear: they used to suffer hunger in Mecca due to the lack of crops and they feared the army of the Elephant.