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سورة الدخانThis 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
حمٓ 1
{ حم } الله أعلم بمراده به.
Hā mīm: God knows best what He means by these [letters].
وَٱلْكِتَـٰبِ ٱلْمُبِينِ 2
{ والكتب } القرآن { المبين } المظهر الحلال من الحرام.
By the Book, the Qur’ān, that clarifies, the one that distinguishes what is lawful from what is unlawful.
إِنَّآ أَنزَلْنَـٰهُ فِى لَيْلَةٍ مُّبَـٰرَكَةٍ ۚ إِنَّا كُنَّا مُنذِرِينَ 3
{ إنا أنزلنه فى ليلة مبركة } هي ليلة القدر أو ليلة النصف من شعبان، نزل فيها من أم الكتاب أي: اللوح المحفوظ من السماء السابعة إلى السماء الدنيا { إنا كنا منذرين } مخوفين به.
Indeed We revealed it on a blessed night, the Night of Ordainment (laylat al-qadr), or the eve of the middle of Sha‘bān, in which it was revealed from the Mother Book, from the seventh heaven to the heaven of this world. Indeed We have been warning, We have been causing [people] by it to have fear [of God].
فِيهَا يُفْرَقُ كُلُّ أَمْرٍ حَكِيمٍ 4
{ فيها } أي في ليلة القدر أو ليلة النصف من شعبان { يفرق } يفصل { كل أمر حكيم } محكم من الأرزاق والآجال وغيرهما التي تكون في السنة إلى مثل تلك الليلة.
In it, that is to say, on the Night of Ordainment, or on the eve of the middle of Sha‘bān, every definitive matter, that has been fixed, with regard to the provisions and the terms of life and other things [decreed by God] for the entire year until that same night again [the following year], is distinguished, is decided.
أَمْرًا مِّنْ عِندِنَآ ۚ إِنَّا كُنَّا مُرْسِلِينَ 5
{ أمرا } فرقا { من عندنا إنا كنا مرسلين } الرسل محمدا ومن قبله.
As an ordinance, a distinguishing, from Us. Indeed We have been sending from your Lord, messengers, [such as] Muhammad (s) and those before him,
رَحْمَةً مِّن رَّبِّكَ ۚ إِنَّهُۥ هُوَ ٱلسَّمِيعُ ٱلْعَلِيمُ 6
{ رحمة } رأفة بالمرسل إليهم { من ربك إنه هو السميع } لأقوالهم { العليم } بأفعالهم.
as a mercy, out of compassion for those to whom these [messengers] have been sent. Surely He is the Hearer, of their sayings, the Knower, of their actions.
رَبِّ ٱلسَّمَـٰوَٰتِ وَٱلْأَرْضِ وَمَا بَيْنَهُمَآ ۖ إِن كُنتُم مُّوقِنِينَ 7
{ رب السموات والأرض وما بينهما } برفع رب خبر ثالث وبجره بدل من ربك { إن كنتم } يا أهل مكة { موقنين } بأنه تعالى رب السموات والأرض فأيقنوا بأن محمدا رسوله.
Lord of the heavens and the earth and all that is between them (read rabbu’l-samāwāti, in the nominative [to understand it] as a third predicate; or read rabbi’l-samāwāti as a substitution for rabbika, ‘your Lord’), if you should be certain, O people of Mecca, that God, exalted be He, is the Lord of the heavens and the earth, then also be certain that Muhammad (s) is His Messenger.
لَآ إِلَـٰهَ إِلَّا هُوَ يُحْىِۦ وَيُمِيتُ ۖ رَبُّكُمْ وَرَبُّ ءَابَآئِكُمُ ٱلْأَوَّلِينَ 8
{ لا إله إلا هو يحى ويميت ربكم ورب ءابائكم الأولين }.
There is no god except Him. He gives life and brings death. Your Lord and the Lord of your forefathers.
بَلْ هُمْ فِى شَكٍّ يَلْعَبُونَ 9
{ بل هم فى شك } من البعث { يلعبون } استهزاء بك يا محمد فقال: (اللهم أعني عليهم بسبع كسبع يوسف).
Nay, but they linger in doubt, concerning the Resurrection, playing, in mockery of you, O Muhammad (s), and so he said, ‘My God, assist me against them with seven [years of drought] like the seven of Joseph’.
فَٱرْتَقِبْ يَوْمَ تَأْتِى ٱلسَّمَآءُ بِدُخَانٍ مُّبِينٍ 10
قال تعالى: { فارتقب } لهم { يوم تأتى السماء بدخان مبين } فأجدبت الأرض واشتد بهم الجوع إلى أن رأوا من شدته كهيئة الدخان بين السماء والأرض.
God, exalted be He, says: So watch out for the day when the heaven will produce a visible smoke. Thus the earth became barren and famine became so severe that they began to see what looked like smoke rising between the heaven and the earth,
يَغْشَى ٱلنَّاسَ ۖ هَـٰذَا عَذَابٌ أَلِيمٌ 11
{ يغشى الناس } فقالوا { هذا عذاب أليم }.
that will envelop the people, and so they said: ‘This is a painful chastisement!
رَّبَّنَا ٱكْشِفْ عَنَّا ٱلْعَذَابَ إِنَّا مُؤْمِنُونَ 12
{ ربنا اكشف عنا العذاب إنا مؤمنون } مصدقون نبيك.
Our Lord, relieve us from the chastisement; indeed we have believed’, we have [now] affirmed the sincerity of Your Prophet.