Az-Zalzala
سورة الزلزلةThis 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
إِذَا زُلْزِلَتِ ٱلْأَرْضُ زِلْزَالَهَا 1
{ إذا زلزلت الأرض } حركت لقيام الساعة { زلزالها } تحريكها الشديد المناسب لعظمتها.
When earth is shaken, [when] it is rocked for the rising of the Hour, with its [final] quake, with its most violent rocking, one that befits its magnitude,
وَأَخْرَجَتِ ٱلْأَرْضُ أَثْقَالَهَا 2
{ وأخرجت الأرض أثقالها } كنوزها وموتاها فألقتها على ظهرها.
and the earth brings forth its burdens, its hidden treasures and its dead, casting them onto its surface,
وَقَالَ ٱلْإِنسَـٰنُ مَا لَهَا 3
{ وقال الإنسن } الكافر بالبعث { مالها }؟إنكارا لتلك الحالة.
and man, the disbeliever in resurrection, says, ‘What is wrong with it?’ — in denial of that situation.
يَوْمَئِذٍ تُحَدِّثُ أَخْبَارَهَا 4
{ يومئذ } بدل من «إذا» وجوابها { تحدث أخبارها } تخبر بما عمل عليها من خير وشر.
On that day (yawma’idhin substitutes for, and is the response to, idhā, ‘when’) it shall relate its chronicles, it shall inform of the good and evil deeds committed in it,
بِأَنَّ رَبَّكَ أَوْحَىٰ لَهَا 5
{ بأن } بسبب أن { ربك أوحى لها } أي أمرها بذلك. وفي الحديث:
" تشهد على كل عبد أو أمة بكل ما عمل على ظهرها "
for its Lord will have inspired it, that is, He will have commanded her to [do] this — in a hadīth [it is stated], ‘It [the earth] shall testify to every single deed committed by every servant and handmaiden upon its surface’.
يَوْمَئِذٍ يَصْدُرُ ٱلنَّاسُ أَشْتَاتًا لِّيُرَوْا۟ أَعْمَـٰلَهُمْ 6
{ يومئذ يصدر الناس } ينصرفون من موقف الحساب { أشتاتا } متفرقين فآخذ ذات اليمين إلى الجنة وآخذ ذات الشمال إلى النار { ليروا أعملهم } أي جزاءها من الجنة أو النار.
On that day mankind shall issue forth, they will depart from the site of the Reckoning, in separate groups, divided up, so that those taking it [their book] by the right hand will go to Paradise, while those taking it by the left hand will go to the Fire, to be shown their deeds, that is, the requital for them, in [either] Paradise or the Fire.
فَمَن يَعْمَلْ مِثْقَالَ ذَرَّةٍ خَيْرًا يَرَهُۥ 7
{ فمن يعمل مثقال ذرة } زنة نملة صغيرة { خيرا يره } يرى ثوابه.
So whoever does an atom’s weight of good shall see it: he shall see its reward,
وَمَن يَعْمَلْ مِثْقَالَ ذَرَّةٍ شَرًّا يَرَهُۥ 8
{ ومن يعمل مثقال ذرة شرا يره } يرى جزاءه.
and whoever does an atom’s weight of evil shall see it: he shall see its requital.