سورة الصافات
بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَنِ الرَّحِيمِ
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وَالصَّافَّاتِ صَفًّا
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فَالزَّاجِرَاتِ زَجْرًا
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فَالتَّالِيَاتِ ذِكْرًا
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إِنَّ إِلَهَكُمْ لَوَاحِدٌ
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رَّبُّ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضِ وَمَا بَيْنَهُمَا وَرَبُّ
الْمَشَارِقِ
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إِنَّا زَيَّنَّا السَّمَاءَ الدُّنْيَا بِزِينَةٍ الْكَوَاكِبِ
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وَحِفْظًا مِّن كُلِّ شَيْطَانٍ مَّارِدٍ
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لَّا يَسَّمَّعُونَ إِلَى الْمَلَإِ الْأَعْلَى وَيُقْذَفُونَ مِن
كُلِّ جَانِبٍ
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دُحُورًا وَلَهُمْ عَذَابٌ وَاصِبٌ
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إِلَّا مَنْ خَطِفَ الْخَطْفَةَ فَأَتْبَعَهُ شِهَابٌ ثَاقِبٌ
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فَاسْتَفْتِهِمْ أَهُمْ أَشَدُّ خَلْقًا أَم مَّنْ خَلَقْنَا إِنَّا
خَلَقْنَاهُم مِّن طِينٍ لَّازِبٍ
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بَلْ عَجِبْتَ وَيَسْخَرُونَ
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وَإِذَا ذُكِّرُوا لَا يَذْكُرُونَ
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وَإِذَا رَأَوْا آيَةً يَسْتَسْخِرُونَ
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وَقَالُوا إِنْ هَذَا إِلَّا سِحْرٌ مُّبِينٌ
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أَإِذَا مِتْنَا وَكُنَّا تُرَابًا وَعِظَامًا أَإِنَّا
لَمَبْعُوثُونَ
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أَوَآبَاؤُنَا الْأَوَّلُونَ
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قُلْ نَعَمْ وَأَنتُمْ دَاخِرُونَ
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فَإِنَّمَا هِيَ زَجْرَةٌ وَاحِدَةٌ فَإِذَا هُمْ يَنظُرُونَ
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وَقَالُوا يَا وَيْلَنَا هَذَا يَوْمُ الدِّينِ
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هَذَا يَوْمُ الْفَصْلِ الَّذِي كُنتُم بِهِ تُكَذِّبُونَ
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احْشُرُوا الَّذِينَ ظَلَمُوا وَأَزْوَاجَهُمْ وَمَا كَانُوا
يَعْبُدُونَ
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مِن دُونِ اللَّهِ فَاهْدُوهُمْ إِلَى صِرَاطِ الْجَحِيمِ
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وَقِفُوهُمْ إِنَّهُم مَّسْئُولُونَ
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مَا لَكُمْ لَا تَنَاصَرُونَ
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بَلْ هُمُ الْيَوْمَ مُسْتَسْلِمُونَ
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وَأَقْبَلَ بَعْضُهُمْ عَلَى بَعْضٍ يَتَسَاءَلُونَ
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قَالُوا إِنَّكُمْ كُنتُمْ تَأْتُونَنَا عَنِ الْيَمِينِ
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قَالُوا بَل لَّمْ تَكُونُوا مُؤْمِنِينَ
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وَمَا كَانَ لَنَا عَلَيْكُم مِّن سُلْطَانٍ بَلْ كُنتُمْ قَوْمًا
طَاغِينَ
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فَحَقَّ عَلَيْنَا قَوْلُ رَبِّنَا إِنَّا لَذَائِقُونَ
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فَأَغْوَيْنَاكُمْ إِنَّا كُنَّا غَاوِينَ
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فَإِنَّهُمْ يَوْمَئِذٍ فِي الْعَذَابِ مُشْتَرِكُونَ
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إِنَّا كَذَلِكَ نَفْعَلُ بِالْمُجْرِمِينَ
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إِنَّهُمْ كَانُوا إِذَا قِيلَ لَهُمْ لَا إِلَهَ إِلَّا اللَّهُ
يَسْتَكْبِرُونَ
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وَيَقُولُونَ أَئِنَّا لَتَارِكُو آلِهَتِنَا لِشَاعِرٍ
مَّجْنُونٍ
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بَلْ جَاءَ بِالْحَقِّ وَصَدَّقَ الْمُرْسَلِينَ
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إِنَّكُمْ لَذَائِقُو الْعَذَابِ الْأَلِيمِ
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وَمَا تُجْزَوْنَ إِلَّا مَا كُنتُمْ تَعْمَلُونَ
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إِلَّا عِبَادَ اللَّهِ الْمُخْلَصِينَ
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أُولَئِكَ لَهُمْ رِزْقٌ مَّعْلُومٌ
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فَوَاكِهُ وَهُم مُّكْرَمُونَ
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فِي جَنَّاتِ النَّعِيمِ
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عَلَى سُرُرٍ مُّتَقَابِلِينَ
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يُطَافُ عَلَيْهِم بِكَأْسٍ مِّن مَّعِينٍ
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بَيْضَاءَ لَذَّةٍ لِّلشَّارِبِينَ
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لَا فِيهَا غَوْلٌ وَلَا هُمْ عَنْهَا يُنزَفُونَ
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وَعِندَهُمْ قَاصِرَاتُ الطَّرْفِ عِينٌ
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كَأَنَّهُنَّ بَيْضٌ مَّكْنُونٌ
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فَأَقْبَلَ بَعْضُهُمْ عَلَى بَعْضٍ يَتَسَاءَلُونَ
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قَالَ قَائِلٌ مِّنْهُمْ إِنِّي كَانَ لِي قَرِينٌ
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يَقُولُ أَإِنَّكَ لَمِنَ الْمُصَدِّقِينَ
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أَإِذَا مِتْنَا وَكُنَّا تُرَابًا وَعِظَامًا أَإِنَّا
لَمَدِينُونَ
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قَالَ هَلْ أَنتُم مُّطَّلِعُونَ
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فَاطَّلَعَ فَرَآهُ فِي سَوَاءِ الْجَحِيمِ
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قَالَ تَاللَّهِ إِن كِدتَّ لَتُرْدِينِ
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وَلَوْلَا نِعْمَةُ رَبِّي لَكُنتُ مِنَ الْمُحْضَرِينَ
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أَفَمَا نَحْنُ بِمَيِّتِينَ
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إِلَّا مَوْتَتَنَا الْأُولَى وَمَا نَحْنُ بِمُعَذَّبِينَ
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إِنَّ هَذَا لَهُوَ الْفَوْزُ الْعَظِيمُ
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لِمِثْلِ هَذَا فَلْيَعْمَلِ الْعَامِلُونَ
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أَذَلِكَ خَيْرٌ نُّزُلًا أَمْ شَجَرَةُ الزَّقُّومِ
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إِنَّا جَعَلْنَاهَا فِتْنَةً لِّلظَّالِمِينَ
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إِنَّهَا شَجَرَةٌ تَخْرُجُ فِي أَصْلِ الْجَحِيمِ
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طَلْعُهَا كَأَنَّهُ رُءُوسُ الشَّيَاطِينِ
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فَإِنَّهُمْ لَآكِلُونَ مِنْهَا فَمَالِئُونَ مِنْهَا الْبُطُونَ
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ثُمَّ إِنَّ لَهُمْ عَلَيْهَا لَشَوْبًا مِّنْ حَمِيمٍ
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ثُمَّ إِنَّ مَرْجِعَهُمْ لَإِلَى الْجَحِيمِ
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إِنَّهُمْ أَلْفَوْا آبَاءَهُمْ ضَالِّينَ
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فَهُمْ عَلَى آثَارِهِمْ يُهْرَعُونَ
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وَلَقَدْ ضَلَّ قَبْلَهُمْ أَكْثَرُ الْأَوَّلِينَ
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وَلَقَدْ أَرْسَلْنَا فِيهِم مُّنذِرِينَ
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فَانظُرْ كَيْفَ كَانَ عَاقِبَةُ الْمُنذَرِينَ
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إِلَّا عِبَادَ اللَّهِ الْمُخْلَصِينَ
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وَلَقَدْ نَادَانَا نُوحٌ فَلَنِعْمَ الْمُجِيبُونَ
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وَنَجَّيْنَاهُ وَأَهْلَهُ مِنَ الْكَرْبِ الْعَظِيمِ
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وَجَعَلْنَا ذُرِّيَّتَهُ هُمُ الْبَاقِينَ
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وَتَرَكْنَا عَلَيْهِ فِي الْآخِرِينَ
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سَلَامٌ عَلَى نُوحٍ فِي الْعَالَمِينَ
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إِنَّا كَذَلِكَ نَجْزِي الْمُحْسِنِينَ
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إِنَّهُ مِنْ عِبَادِنَا الْمُؤْمِنِينَ
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ثُمَّ أَغْرَقْنَا الْآخَرِينَ
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وَإِنَّ مِن شِيعَتِهِ لَإِبْرَاهِيمَ
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إِذْ جَاءَ رَبَّهُ بِقَلْبٍ سَلِيمٍ
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إِذْ قَالَ لِأَبِيهِ وَقَوْمِهِ مَاذَا تَعْبُدُونَ
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أَئِفْكًا آلِهَةً دُونَ اللَّهِ تُرِيدُونَ
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فَمَا ظَنُّكُم بِرَبِّ الْعَالَمِينَ
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فَنَظَرَ نَظْرَةً فِي النُّجُومِ
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فَقَالَ إِنِّي سَقِيمٌ
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فَتَوَلَّوْا عَنْهُ مُدْبِرِينَ
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فَرَاغَ إِلَى آلِهَتِهِمْ فَقَالَ أَلَا تَأْكُلُونَ
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مَا لَكُمْ لَا تَنطِقُونَ
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فَرَاغَ عَلَيْهِمْ ضَرْبًا بِالْيَمِينِ
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فَأَقْبَلُوا إِلَيْهِ يَزِفُّونَ
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قَالَ أَتَعْبُدُونَ مَا تَنْحِتُونَ
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وَاللَّهُ خَلَقَكُمْ وَمَا تَعْمَلُونَ
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قَالُوا ابْنُوا لَهُ بُنْيَانًا فَأَلْقُوهُ فِي الْجَحِيمِ
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فَأَرَادُوا بِهِ كَيْدًا فَجَعَلْنَاهُمُ الْأَسْفَلِينَ
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وَقَالَ إِنِّي ذَاهِبٌ إِلَى رَبِّي سَيَهْدِينِ
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رَبِّ هَبْ لِي مِنَ الصَّالِحِينَ
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فَبَشَّرْنَاهُ بِغُلَامٍ حَلِيمٍ
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فَلَمَّا بَلَغَ مَعَهُ السَّعْيَ قَالَ يَا بُنَيَّ إِنِّي أَرَى
فِي الْمَنَامِ أَنِّي أَذْبَحُكَ فَانظُرْ مَاذَا تَرَى قَالَ يَا أَبَتِ افْعَلْ مَا
تُؤْمَرُ سَتَجِدُنِي إِن شَاءَ اللَّهُ مِنَ الصَّابِرِينَ
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فَلَمَّا أَسْلَمَا وَتَلَّهُ لِلْجَبِينِ
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وَنَادَيْنَاهُ أَن يَا إِبْرَاهِيمُ
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قَدْ صَدَّقْتَ الرُّؤْيَا إِنَّا كَذَلِكَ نَجْزِي
الْمُحْسِنِينَ
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إِنَّ هَذَا لَهُوَ الْبَلَاءُ الْمُبِينُ
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وَفَدَيْنَاهُ بِذِبْحٍ عَظِيمٍ
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وَتَرَكْنَا عَلَيْهِ فِي الْآخِرِينَ
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سَلَامٌ عَلَى إِبْرَاهِيمَ
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كَذَلِكَ نَجْزِي الْمُحْسِنِينَ
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إِنَّهُ مِنْ عِبَادِنَا الْمُؤْمِنِينَ
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وَبَشَّرْنَاهُ بِإِسْحَاقَ نَبِيًّا مِّنَ الصَّالِحِينَ
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وَبَارَكْنَا عَلَيْهِ وَعَلَى إِسْحَاقَ وَمِن ذُرِّيَّتِهِمَا
مُحْسِنٌ وَظَالِمٌ لِّنَفْسِهِ مُبِينٌ
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وَلَقَدْ مَنَنَّا عَلَى مُوسَى وَهَارُونَ
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وَنَجَّيْنَاهُمَا وَقَوْمَهُمَا مِنَ الْكَرْبِ الْعَظِيمِ
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وَنَصَرْنَاهُمْ فَكَانُوا هُمُ الْغَالِبِينَ
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وَآتَيْنَاهُمَا الْكِتَابَ الْمُسْتَبِينَ
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وَهَدَيْنَاهُمَا الصِّرَاطَ الْمُسْتَقِيمَ
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وَتَرَكْنَا عَلَيْهِمَا فِي الْآخِرِينَ
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سَلَامٌ عَلَى مُوسَى وَهَارُونَ
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إِنَّا كَذَلِكَ نَجْزِي الْمُحْسِنِينَ
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إِنَّهُمَا مِنْ عِبَادِنَا الْمُؤْمِنِينَ
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وَإِنَّ إِلْيَاسَ لَمِنَ الْمُرْسَلِينَ
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إِذْ قَالَ لِقَوْمِهِ أَلَا تَتَّقُونَ
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أَتَدْعُونَ بَعْلًا وَتَذَرُونَ أَحْسَنَ الْخَالِقِينَ
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اللَّهَ رَبَّكُمْ وَرَبَّ آبَائِكُمُ الْأَوَّلِينَ
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فَكَذَّبُوهُ فَإِنَّهُمْ لَمُحْضَرُونَ
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إِلَّا عِبَادَ اللَّهِ الْمُخْلَصِينَ
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وَتَرَكْنَا عَلَيْهِ فِي الْآخِرِينَ
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سَلَامٌ عَلَى إِلْ يَاسِينَ
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إِنَّا كَذَلِكَ نَجْزِي الْمُحْسِنِينَ
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إِنَّهُ مِنْ عِبَادِنَا الْمُؤْمِنِينَ
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وَإِنَّ لُوطًا لَّمِنَ الْمُرْسَلِينَ
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إِذْ نَجَّيْنَاهُ وَأَهْلَهُ أَجْمَعِينَ
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إِلَّا عَجُوزًا فِي الْغَابِرِينَ
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ثُمَّ دَمَّرْنَا الْآخَرِينَ
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وَإِنَّكُمْ لَتَمُرُّونَ عَلَيْهِم مُّصْبِحِينَ
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وَبِاللَّيْلِ أَفَلَا تَعْقِلُونَ
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وَإِنَّ يُونُسَ لَمِنَ الْمُرْسَلِينَ
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إِذْ أَبَقَ إِلَى الْفُلْكِ الْمَشْحُونِ
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فَسَاهَمَ فَكَانَ مِنَ الْمُدْحَضِينَ
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فَالْتَقَمَهُ الْحُوتُ وَهُوَ مُلِيمٌ
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فَلَوْلَا أَنَّهُ كَانَ مِنَ الْمُسَبِّحِينَ
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لَلَبِثَ فِي بَطْنِهِ إِلَى يَوْمِ يُبْعَثُونَ
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فَنَبَذْنَاهُ بِالْعَرَاءِ وَهُوَ سَقِيمٌ
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وَأَنبَتْنَا عَلَيْهِ شَجَرَةً مِّن يَقْطِينٍ
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وَأَرْسَلْنَاهُ إِلَى مِائَةِ أَلْفٍ أَوْ يَزِيدُونَ
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فَآمَنُوا فَمَتَّعْنَاهُمْ إِلَى حِينٍ
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فَاسْتَفْتِهِمْ أَلِرَبِّكَ الْبَنَاتُ وَلَهُمُ الْبَنُونَ
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أَمْ خَلَقْنَا الْمَلَائِكَةَ إِنَاثًا وَهُمْ شَاهِدُونَ
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أَلَا إِنَّهُم مِّنْ إِفْكِهِمْ لَيَقُولُونَ
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وَلَدَ اللَّهُ وَإِنَّهُمْ لَكَاذِبُونَ
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أَصْطَفَى الْبَنَاتِ عَلَى الْبَنِينَ
154
مَا لَكُمْ كَيْفَ تَحْكُمُونَ
155
أَفَلَا تَذَكَّرُونَ
156
أَمْ لَكُمْ سُلْطَانٌ مُّبِينٌ
157
فَأْتُوا بِكِتَابِكُمْ إِن كُنتُمْ صَادِقِينَ
158
وَجَعَلُوا بَيْنَهُ وَبَيْنَ الْجِنَّةِ نَسَبًا وَلَقَدْ عَلِمَتِ
الْجِنَّةُ إِنَّهُمْ لَمُحْضَرُونَ
159
سُبْحَانَ اللَّهِ عَمَّا يَصِفُونَ
160
إِلَّا عِبَادَ اللَّهِ الْمُخْلَصِينَ
161
فَإِنَّكُمْ وَمَا تَعْبُدُونَ
162
مَا أَنتُمْ عَلَيْهِ بِفَاتِنِينَ
163
إِلَّا مَنْ هُوَ صَالِ الْجَحِيمِ
164
وَمَا مِنَّا إِلَّا لَهُ مَقَامٌ مَّعْلُومٌ
165
وَإِنَّا لَنَحْنُ الصَّافُّونَ
166
وَإِنَّا لَنَحْنُ الْمُسَبِّحُونَ
167
وَإِن كَانُوا لَيَقُولُونَ
168
لَوْ أَنَّ عِندَنَا ذِكْرًا مِّنَ الْأَوَّلِينَ
169
لَكُنَّا عِبَادَ اللَّهِ الْمُخْلَصِينَ
170
فَكَفَرُوا بِهِ فَسَوْفَ يَعْلَمُونَ
171
وَلَقَدْ سَبَقَتْ كَلِمَتُنَا لِعِبَادِنَا الْمُرْسَلِينَ
172
إِنَّهُمْ لَهُمُ الْمَنصُورُونَ
173
وَإِنَّ جُندَنَا لَهُمُ الْغَالِبُونَ
174
فَتَوَلَّ عَنْهُمْ حَتَّى حِينٍ
175
وَأَبْصِرْهُمْ فَسَوْفَ يُبْصِرُونَ
176
أَفَبِعَذَابِنَا يَسْتَعْجِلُونَ
177
فَإِذَا نَزَلَ بِسَاحَتِهِمْ فَسَاءَ صَبَاحُ الْمُنذَرِينَ
178
وَتَوَلَّ عَنْهُمْ حَتَّى حِينٍ
179
وَأَبْصِرْ فَسَوْفَ يُبْصِرُونَ
180
سُبْحَانَ رَبِّكَ رَبِّ الْعِزَّةِ عَمَّا يَصِفُونَ
181
وَسَلَامٌ عَلَى الْمُرْسَلِينَ
182
وَالْحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ رَبِّ الْعَالَمِينَ
Les rangés (As-Saffat)
1
Par ceux qui sont rangés en rangs.
2
Par ceux qui poussent (les nuages) avec force.
3
Par ceux qui récitent, en rappel :
4
« Votre Dieu est en vérité unique,
5
le Seigneur des cieux et de la terre et de ce qui existe entre
eux et Seigneur des Levants »
6
Nous avons décoré le ciel le plus proche d’un décor : les
étoiles,
7
afin de le protéger contre tout diable rebelle.
8
Ils ne pourront être à l’écoute des dignitaires suprêmes [les
Anges] ; car ils seront harcelés de tout côté,
9
et refoulés. Et ils auront un châtiment perpétuel.
10
Sauf celui qui saisit au vol quelque [information] ; il est alors
pourchassé par un météore transperçant.
11
Demande-leur s’ils sont plus difficiles à créer que ceux que
Nous avons créés ? Car Nous les avons créés de boue collante !
12
Mais tu t’étonnes, et ils se moquent !
13
Et quand on le leur rappelle (le Coran), ils ne se rappellent
pas ;
14
et quand ils voient un prodige, ils cherchent à s’en moquer,
15
et disent : « Ceci n’est que magie évidente.
16
Lorsque nous serons morts et que nous deviendrons poussière et
ossements, serons-nous ressuscités ?
17
ainsi que nos premiers ancêtres ? »
18
Dis : « Oui ! et vous vous humilierez ».
19
Il n’y aura qu’un seul Cri, et voilà qu’ils regarderont,
20
et ils diront : « Malheur à nous ! c’est le jour de la
Rétribution ».
21
« C’est le jour du Jugement que vous traitiez de mensonge ».
22
« Rassemblez les injustes et leurs épouses et tout ce qu’ils
adoraient,
23
en dehors d’Allah. Puis conduisez-les au chemin de la
Fournaise.
24
Et arrêtez-les : car ils doivent être interrogés ».
25
« Pourquoi ne vous portez-vous pas secours mutuellement ? »
26
Mais ce jour-là, ils seront complètement soumis,
27
et les uns se tourneront vers les autres s’interrogeant
mutuellement ;
28
Ils diront : « C’est vous qui nous forciez (à la mécréance) ».
29
« C’est vous plutôt (diront les chefs) qui ne vouliez pas
croire.
30
Et nous n’avions aucun pouvoir sur vous. C’est vous plutôt qui
étiez des gens transgresseurs.
31
La parole de notre Seigneur s’est donc réalisée contre nous ;
certes, nous allons goûter [au châtiment].
32
Nous vous avons induits en erreur car, en vérité, nous étions
égarés nous-mêmes ».
33
Ce jour-là donc, ils seront tous associés dans le châtiment.
34
Ainsi traitons-Nous les criminels.
35
Quand on leur disait : « Point de divinité à part Allah », ils se
gonflaient d’orgueil,
36
et disaient : « Allons-nous abandonner nos divinités pour un poète
fou ? »
37
Il est plutôt venu avec la Vérité et il a confirmé les messagers
(précédents).
38
Vous allez certes, goûter au châtiment douloureux.
39
Et vous ne serez rétribués que selon ce que vous œuvriez,
40
sauf les serviteurs élus d’Allah,
41
Ceux-là auront une rétribution bien connue :
42
des fruits, et ils seront honorés,
43
dans les Jardins du délice,
44
sur des lits, face à face.
45
On fera circuler entre eux une coupe d’eau remplie à une
source
46
blanche, savoureuse à boire,
47
Elle n’offusquera point leur raison et ne les enivrera pas.
48
Et Ils auront auprès d’eux des belles aux grands yeux, au regard
chaste,
49
semblables au blanc bien préservé de l’œuf.
50
Puis les uns se tourneront vers les autres s’interrogeant
mutuellement.
51
L’un d’eux dira : « J’avais un compagnon
52
qui disait : « Es-tu vraiment de ceux qui croient ?
53
Est-ce que quand nous mourrons et serons poussière et ossements,
nous aurons à rendre des comptes ? »
54
Il dira : « Est-ce que vous voudriez regarder d’en haut ? »
55
Alors il regardera d’en haut et il le verra en plein dans la
Fournaise,
56
et dira : « Par Allah ! Tu as bien failli causer ma perte !
57
et sans le bienfait de mon Seigneur, j’aurais certainement été
du nombre de ceux qu’on traîne [au supplice].
58
N’est-il pas vrai que nous ne mourrons
59
que de notre première mort et que nous ne serons pas
châtiés ? »
60
C’est cela, certes, le grand succès.
61
C’est pour une chose pareille que doivent ouvrer ceux qui
ouvrent.
62
Est-ce que ceci est meilleur comme séjour, ou l’arbre de
Zaqqûm ?
63
Nous l’avons assigné en épreuve aux injustes.
64
C’est un arbre qui sort du fond de la Fournaise.
65
Ses fruits sont comme des têtes de diables.
66
Ils doivent certainement en manger et ils doivent s’en remplir
le ventre.
67
Ensuite ils auront par-dessus une mixture d’eau bouillante.
68
Puis leur retour sera vers la Fournaise.
69
C’est qu’ils ont trouvé leurs ancêtres dans l’égarement,
70
et les voilà courant sur leurs traces.
71
En effet, avant eux, la plupart des anciens se sont égarés.
72
Et Nous avions certes envoyé parmi eux des avertisseurs.
73
Regarde donc ce qu’il est advenu de ceux qui ont été
avertis !
74
Exception faite des élus, parmi les serviteurs d’Allah :
75
Noé, en effet, fit appel à Nous qui sommes le Meilleur Répondeur
(qui exauce les prières).
76
Et Nous le sauvâmes, lui et sa famille, de la grande
angoisse,
77
et Nous fîmes de sa descendance les seuls survivants.
78
et Nous avons perpétué son souvenir dans la postérité,
79
Paix sur Noé dans tout l’univers !
80
Ainsi récompensons-Nous les bienfaisants.
81
Il était, certes, un de Nos serviteurs croyants.
82
Ensuite Nous noyâmes les autres.
83
Du nombre de ses coreligionnaires, certes, fut Abraham.
84
Quand il vint à son Seigneur avec un cœur sain.
85
Quand il dit à son père et à son peuple : « Qu’est-ce que vous
adorez ? »
86
Cherchez-vous dans votre égarement, des divinités en dehors
d’Allah ?
87
Que pensez-vous du Seigneur de l’univers ? »
88
Puis, il jeta un regard attentif sur les étoiles,
89
et dit : « Je suis malade ».
90
Ils lui tournèrent le dos et s’en allèrent.
91
Alors il se glissa vers leurs divinités et dit : « Ne mangez-vous
pas ?
92
Qu’avez-vous à ne pas parler ? »
93
Puis il se mit furtivement à les frapper de sa main droite.
94
Alors [les gens] vinrent à lui en courant.
95
Il [leur] dit : « Adorez-vous ce que vous-mêmes sculptez,
96
alors que c’est Allah qui vous a créés, vous et ce que vous
fabriquez ? »
97
Ils dirent : « Qu’on lui construise un four et qu’on le lance dans
la fournaise ! »
98
Ils voulurent lui jouer un mauvais tour ; mais ce sont eux que
Nous mîmes à bas.
99
Et il dit : « Moi, je pars vers mon Seigneur et Il me guidera.
100
Seigneur, fais-moi don d’une [progéniture] d’entre les
vertueux ».
101
Nous lui fîmes donc la bonne annonce d’un garçon (Ismaël)
longanime.
102
Puis quand celui-ci fut en âge de l’accompagner, [Abraham] dit :
« O mon fils, je me vois en songe en train de t’immoler. Vois donc ce que tu en
penses ». (Ismaël) dit : « O mon cher père, fais ce qui t’es commandé: tu me
trouveras, s’il plaît à Allah, du nombre des endurants ».
103
Puis quand tous deux se furent soumis (à l’ordre d’Allah) et
qu’il l’eut jeté sur le front,
104
voilà que Nous l’appelâmes « Abraham !
105
Tu as confirmé la vision. C’est ainsi que Nous récompensons les
bienfaisants ».
106
C’était là certes, l’épreuve manifeste.
107
Et Nous le rançonnâmes d’une immolation généreuse.
108
Et Nous perpétuâmes son renom dans la postérité:
109
« Paix sur Abraham ».
110
Ainsi récompensons-Nous les bienfaisants ;
111
car il était de Nos serviteurs croyants.
112
Nous lui fîmes la bonne annonce d’Isaac comme prophète d’entre
les gens vertueux.
113
Et Nous le bénîmes ainsi que Isaac. Parmi leurs descendances il
y a [l’homme] de bien et celui qui est manifestement injuste envers
lui-même.
114
Et Nous accordâmes certes à Moïse et Aaron des faveurs,
115
Et les sauvâmes ainsi que leur peuple, de la grande
angoisse,
116
et les secourûmes, et ils furent eux les vainqueurs.
117
Et Nous leur apportâmes le livre explicite
118
et les guidâmes vers le droit chemin.
119
Et Nous perpétuâmes leur renom dans la postérité:
120
« Paix sur Moïse et Aaron »
121
Ainsi récompensons-Nous les bienfaisants ;
122
car ils étaient du nombre de Nos serviteurs croyants.
123
Elie était, certes, du nombre des Messagers.
124
Quand il dit à son peuple : « Ne craignez-vous pas [Allah] ? »
125
Invoquerez-vous Ball (une idole) et délaisserez-vous le
Meilleur des créateurs,
126
Allah, votre Seigneur et le Seigneur de vos plus anciens
ancêtres ? »
127
Ils le traitèrent de menteur. Et bien, ils seront emmenées (au
châtiment).
128
Exception faite des serviteurs élus d’Allah.
129
Et Nous perpétuâmes son renom dans la postérité:
130
« Paix sur Elie et ses adeptes ».
131
Ainsi récompensons-Nous les bienfaisants,
132
car il était du nombre de Nos serviteurs croyants.
133
Et Loût était, certes, du nombre des Messagers.
134
Quand Nous le sauvâmes, lui et sa famille, tout entière,
135
sauf une vieille femme qui devait disparaître avec les
autres,
136
Et Nous détruisîmes les autres
137
Et vous passez certainement auprès d’eux le matin
138
et la nuit. Ne raisonnez-vous donc pas ?
139
Jonas était certes, du nombre des Messagers.
140
Quand il s’enfuit vers le bateau comble,
141
Il prit part au tirage au sort qui le désigna pour être jeté [à
la mer].
142
Le poisson l’avala alors qu’il était blâmable.
143
S’il n’avait pas été parmi ceux qui glorifient Allah,
144
il serait demeuré dans son ventre jusqu’au jour où l’on sera
ressuscité.
145
Nous le jetâmes sur la terre nue, indisposé qu’il était.
146
Et Nous fîmes pousser au-dessus de lui un plant de courge,
147
et l’envoyâmes ensuite (comme prophète) vers cent mille hommes
ou plus.
148
Ils crurent, et nous leur donnâmes jouissance de la vie pour un
temps.
149
Pose-leur donc la question : « Ton Seigneur aurait-Il des filles
et eux des fils ?
150
Ou bien avons-Nous créé des Anges de sexe féminin, et en
sont-ils témoins ? ».
151
Certes, ils disent dans leur mensonge :
152
« Allah a engendré » mais ce sont certainement des menteurs !
153
Aurait-Il choisi des filles de préférence à des fils ?
154
Qu’avez-vous donc à juger ainsi ?
155
Ne réfléchissez-vous donc pas ?
156
Ou avez-vous un argument évident ?
157
Apportez donc votre Livre si vous êtes véridiques ! »
158
Et ils ont établi entre Lui et les djinns une parenté, alors
que les djinns savent bien qu’ils [les mécréants] vont être emmenés (pour le
châtiment).
159
Gloire à Allah. Il est au-dessus de ce qu’ils décrivent !
160
Exception faite des serviteurs élus d’Allah.
161
En vérité, vous et tout ce que vous adorez,
162
ne pourrez tenter [personne],
163
excepté celui qui sera brûlé dans la Fournaise.
164
Il n’y en a pas un, parmi nous, qui n’ait une place connue ;
165
nous sommes certes, les rangés en rangs ;
166
et c’est nous certes, qui célébrons la gloire [d’Allah].
167
Même s’ils disaient :
168
« Si nous avions eu un Rappel de [nos] ancêtres,
169
nous aurions été certes les serviteurs élus d’Allah !
170
Ils y ont mécru et ils sauront bientôt.
171
En effet, Notre Parole a déjà été donnée à Nos serviteurs, les
Messagers,
172
que ce sont eux qui seront secourus,
173
et que Nos soldats auront le dessus.
174
Eloigne-toi d’eux, jusqu’à un certain temps ;
175
et observe-les : ils verront bientôt !
176
Quoi ! est-ce Notre châtiment qu’ils cherchent à hâter ?
177
Quand il tombera dans leur place, ce sera alors un mauvais
matin pour ceux qu’on a avertis !
178
Et éloigne-toi d’eux jusqu’à un certain temps ;
179
et observe ; ils verront bientôt !
180
Gloire à ton Seigneur, le Seigneur de la puissance. Il est
au-dessus de ce qu’ils décrivent !
181
Et paix sur les Messagers,
182
et louange à Allah, Seigneur de l’univers !
Sourate XXXVII.
Celles qui sont en rangs.
(Aṣ-Ṣâffât.)
Translator's introductory remarks
Titre tiré du vt. 1.
Cette sourate ne présente pas d’unité. Il est toutefois très difficile de
préciser où commencent et où s’achèvent exactement les divers éléments
qui la composent.
1
▶
Note [original edition] : aṣ-ṣâffâti « celles qui sont en rangs ». Selon toute
apparence, on a ici un serment par les Anges, car
dans la sourate LXXXIX, 23, les créatures angéliques sont représentées
volant en rangs.
2
▶
Note [original edition] : az-zâjirâti « qui repoussent » paraît s’harmoniser avec
les vt. 8-10 où il est question de Démons repoussés par les Anges.
3
4
5
▶
Note [original edition] : Des
Orients. On s’attendrait à la périphrase : des
Orients et des Occidents comme dans LXX, 40. A noter qu’ainsi ce vt.
rimerait avec les suiv.
6
7
▶
Note [original edition] : mâridin « rebelle »
rappelle l’araméen marad qui a le même sens. A noter
que l’expression contre tout démon rebelle évoque une
notion de collectif, ce qui explique le pluriel du verbe dans le
vt. 8.
8
9
10
11
▶
Note [original edition] : fa-stafti-him « consulte-les donc ». La conjonction fa « donc » forme la liaison grammaticale avec ce qui précède, mais le
pronom him « les » ne peut évidemment pas représenter
les démons, nommés dans les vt. antérieurs. Par le sens, ce pronom désigne
les Polythéistes mekkois. L’état actuel du texte pose un problème insoluble.
Cf. ci-dessous, vt. 149.
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
▶
Note [original edition] : Vous veniez à
nous etc., c.-à-d. : vous veniez à nous en amis. Ici les Réprouvés
s’adressent à ceux qui les ont induits en erreur.
29
30
31
▶
Note [original edition] : Nous allons goûter. La phrase reste en
suspens.
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
51
52
53
54
▶
Note [original edition] : Dans ce vt., ce Bienheureux
semble s’adresser à d’autres Élus qu’il invite à regarder les tourments
auxquels sont en proie les Réprouvés dans la Géhenne située en dessous du
Paradis.
55
56
57
▶
Note [original edition] : Les Réprouvés. Text. : ceux présentés
[au Feu de l’Enfer].
58
▶
Note [original edition] : sq. C.-à-d. : ne sommes-nous morts qu’une fois ? Ne
devons-nous pas subir une seconde mort qui sera notre tourment ? Se peut-il
que notre récompense soit venue si vite et sans une épreuve
préalable ?
59
60
61
62
63
64
65
66
67
68
69
70
71
72
73
74
[Histoire de Noé.]
75
▶
Note [original edition] : Combien
certes, etc. Les commt. pensent que ce pl. désigne Allah. Mais il est
très possible que l’expression ait une portée plus générale.
76
77
78
79
80
80
[Récits sur Abraham.]
83
84
85
86
87
90
91
92
93
94
95
96
97
98
▶
Note [original edition] : Ici se termine le premier récit relatif à la mission
d’Abraham. Il correspond à un passage de la littérature midraschique qui se
rencontre aussi dans des légendes chrétiennes ; on le retrouve sous une
forme à peine différente dans la sourate XXI, 52.
99
▶
Note [original edition] : Ce vt. semble introduire
un deuxième récit.
88
▶
Note [original edition] : Ces 2 vt. sont déplacés et à rejeter
plus loin.
▶
Note [original edition] : Ces deux vt.
doivent être replacés ici. Faute d’avoir vu que ce trait n’avait pas sa
place là où il se trouve dans la Vulgate, l’exégèse a dû accepter une
explication anecdotique : Abraham était savant en astrologie et prétendit
lire dans les cieux la venue d’une épidémie. Effrayés, ses compatriotes
s’éloignèrent de lui et, grâce à cette ruse, il put se glisser jusqu’aux
Idoles et les détruire. A noter que ce détail contredit le vt. 95. Si l’on
admet au contraire un déplacement de vt., la suite du deuxième récit est
parfaite : Abraham est vieux, dolent ; il implore le ciel de lui donner un
fils et il est exaucé. Ajoutons que la remise en place de ces vt. a pour
conséquence de rétablir l’unité du premier développement.
89
100
101
102
102
102
103
▶
Note [original edition] : La Vulgate porte
fa-lammâ ’aslamâ « quand ils se furent soumis à
Allah ». On a préféré la var. reçue par I. Mas‛ûd, I. ‛Abbâs et Mujâhid :
fa-lammâ sallamâ : « Quand ils eurent prononcé le salâm. »
104
105
▶
Note [original edition] : Tu as cru en
ton rêve. Autre sens possible : tu as déclaré
véridique ton rêve. Dans la Vulgate vient ensuite la phrase : en vérité ainsi Nous récompensons les Bienfaisants. Mais
il est hors de doute que cette phrase est déplacée et est une répétition du
vt. 110.
106
107
108
109
110
111
112
113
[Histoire de Moïse et d’Aaron.]
114
115
116
117
118
119
120
121
122
[Histoire d’Élie.]
123
124
125
126
127
▶
Note [original edition] : Réprouvés. Text. :
présentés [à l’Enfer]. Cf. v. 55.
128
129
130
131
132
[Histoire de Loth.]
133
135
136
137
138
[Histoire de Jonas.]
139
▶
Note [original edition] : Ces vt.
résument Jonas, I, 3-7.
140
141
142
▶
Note [original edition] : wa huwa mulîmun
« alors qu’il se blâmait ». Autre sens possible : alors
qu’il était blâmable. Mais le sens retenu cadre mieux avec XXI, 87, et
avec Jonas, II, 1 sqq.
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Note [original edition] : Pied de calebassier. Il ne s’agit
aucunement d’un arbre comme l’avancent les commt. Dans le passage parallèle
de Jonas, IV, 6, il est question d’un végétal nommé
kîkâyôn « coloquinte » (?), que Dieu fit croître sur
la hutte construite par Jonas, aux portes de Ninive.
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The Rangers
In the Name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate
1
By the rangers ranging
2
and the scarers scaring
3
and the reciters of a Remembrance,
4
surely your God is One,
5
Lord of the heavens and the earth, and of what between them is Lord of the Easts.
6
We have adorned the lower heaven with the adornment of the stars
7
and to preserve against every rebel Satan;
8
they listen not to the High Council, for they are pelted from every side,
9
rejected, and theirs is an everlasting chastisement,
10
except such as snatches a fragment, and he is pursued by a piercing flame.
11
So ask them for a pronouncement -- Are they stronger in constitution, or those We created? We created them of clinging clay.
12
Nay, thou marvellest; and they scoff
13
and, when reminded, do not remember
14
and, when they see a sign, would scoff;
15
and they say, ‘This is nothing but manifest sorcery.
16
What, when we are dead and become dust and bones, shall we indeed be raised up?
17
What, and our fathers, the ancients?’
18
Say: ‘Yes, and in all lowliness.’
19
For it is only a single scaring, then behold, they are watching
20
and they say, ‘Woe, alas for us! This is the Day of Doom.’
21
‘This is the Day of Decision, even that you cried lies to.
22
Muster those who did evil, their wives, and that they were serving,
23
apart from God, and guide them unto the path of Hell!
24
And halt them, to be questioned:
25
"Why help you not one another?"
26
No indeed; but today they resign themselves in submission
27
and advance one upon another, asking each other questions.
28
These say, ‘Why, you of old would come to us from the right hand.’
29
Those say, ‘No; on the contrary, you were not believers;
30
we had no authority over you; no, you were an insolent people.
31
So our Lord’s Word is realised against us; we are tasting it.
32
Therefore we perverted you, and we ourselves were perverts.’
33
So all of them on that day are sharers in the chastisement.
34
Even so We do with the sinners;
35
for when it was said to them, ‘There is no god but God,’ they were ever waxing proud,
36
saying, ‘What, shall we forsake our gods for a poet possessed?’
37
‘No indeed; but he brought the truth, and confirmed the Envoys.
38
Now certainly you shall be tasting the painful chastisement,
39
and not be recompensed, except according to what you were doing.’
40
Except for God’s sincere servants;
41
for them awaits a known provision,
42
fruits -- and they high-honoured
43
in the Gardens of Bliss
44
upon couches, set face to face,
45
a cup from a spring being passed round to them,
46
white, a delight to the drinkers,
47
wherein no sickness is, neither intoxication;
48
and with them wide-eyed maidens restraining their glances
49
as if they were hidden pearls.
50
They advance one upon another, asking each other questions.
51
One of them says, ‘I had a comrade
52
who would say, "Are you a confirmer?
53
What, when we are dead and become dust and bones, shall we indeed be requited?"
54
He says, ‘Are you looking down?’
55
Then he looks, and sees him in the midst of Hell.
56
He says, ‘By God, wellnigh thou didst destroy me;
57
But for my Lord’s blessing, I were one of the arraigned.
58
What, do we then not die
59
except for our first death, and are we not chastised?
60
This is indeed the mighty triumph,
61
for the like of this let the workers work.’
62
Is that better as a hospitality, or the Tree of Ez-Zakkoum?
63
We have appointed it as a trial for the evildoers.
64
It is a tree that comes forth in the root of Hell;
65
its spathes are as the heads of Satans,
66
and they eat of it, and of it fill their bellies,
67
then on top of it they have a brew of boiling water,
68
then their return is unto Hell.
69
They found their fathers erring,
70
and they run in their footsteps.
71
Before them erred most of the ancients,
72
and We sent among them warners;
73
and behold, how was the end of them that were warned,
74
except for God’s sincere servants.
75
Noah called to Us; and how excellent were the Answerers!
76
And We delivered him and his people from the great distress,
77
and We made his seed the survivors,
78
and left for him among the later folk
79
‘Peace be upon Noah among all beings!’
80
Even so We recompense the good-doers;
81
he was among Our believing servants.
82
Then afterwards We drowned the rest.
83
Of his party was also Abraham;
84
when he came unto his Lord with a pure heart,
85
when he said to his father and his folk, ‘What do you serve?
86
Is it a calumny, gods apart from God, that you desire?
87
What think you then of the Lord of all Being?’
88
And he cast a glance at the stars,
89
and he said, ‘Surely I am sick.’
90
But they went away from him, turning their backs.
91
Then he turned to their gods, and said, ‘What do you eat?
92
What ails you, that you speak not?’
93
And he turned upon them smiting them with his right hand.
94
Then came the others to him hastening.
95
He said, ‘Do you serve what you hew,
96
and God created you and what you make?’
97
They said, ‘Build him a building, and cast him into the furnace!’
98
They desired to outwit him; so We made them the lower ones.
99
He said, ‘I am going to my Lord; He will guide me.
100
My Lord, give me one of the righteous.’
101
Then We gave him the good tidings of a prudent boy;
102
and when he had reached the age of running with him, he said, ‘My son, I see in a dream that I shall sacrifice thee; consider, what thinkest thou?’ He said, ‘My father, do as thou art bidden; thou shalt find me, God willing, one of the steadfast.’
103
When they had surrendered, and he flung him upon his brow,
104
We called unto him, ‘Abraham,
105
thou hast confirmed the vision; even so We recompense the good-doers.
106
This is indeed the manifest trial.’
107
And We ransomed him with a mighty sacrifice,
108
and left for him among the later folk
109
‘Peace be upon Abraham!’
110
Even so We recompense the good-doers;
111
he was among Our believing servants.
112
Then We gave him the good tidings of Isaac, a Prophet, one of the righteous.
113
And We blessed him, and Isaac; and of their seed some are good-doers, and some manifest self-wrongers.
114
We also favoured Moses and Aaron,
115
and We delivered them and their people from the great distress.
116
And We helped them, so that they were the victors;
117
and We gave them the Manifesting Book,
118
and guided them in the straight path,
119
and left for them among the later folk
120
‘Peace be upon Moses and, Aaron!’
121
Even so We recompense the good-doers;
122
they were among Our believing servants.
123
Elias too was one of the Envoys;
124
when he said to his people, ‘Will you not be godfearing?
125
Do you call on Baal, and abandon the Best of creators?
126
God, your Lord, and the Lord of your fathers, the ancients?’
127
But they cried him lies; so they will be among the arraigned,
128
except for God’s sincere servants;
129
and We left for him among the later folk
130
‘Peace be upon Elias!’
131
Even so We recompense the good-doers;
132
he was among Our believing servants.
133
Lot too was one of the Envoys;
134
when We delivered him and his people all together,
135
save an old woman among those that tarried;
136
then We destroyed the others,
137
and you pass by them in the morning
138
and in the night; will you not understand?
139
Jonah too was one of the Envoys;
140
when he ran away to the laden ship
141
and cast lots, and was of the rebutted,
142
then the whale swallowed him down, and he blameworthy.
143
Now had he not been of those that glorify God,
144
he would have tarried in its belly until the day they shall be raised;
145
but We cast him upon the wilderness, and he was sick,
146
and We caused to grow over him a tree of gourds.
147
Then We sent him unto a hundred thousand, or more,
148
and they believed; so We gave them enjoyment for a while.
149
So ask them for a pronouncement -- Has thy Lord daughters, and they sons?
150
Or did We create the angels females, while they were witnesses?
151
Is it not of their own calumny that they say,
152
‘God has begotten?’ They are truly liars.
153
Has He chosen daughters above sons?
154
What ails you then, how you judge?
155
What, and will you not remember?
156
Or have you a clear authority?
157
Bring your Book, if you speak truly!
158
They have set up a kinship between Him and the jinn; and the jinn know that they shall be arraigned.
159
Glory be to God above that they describe,
160
except for God’s sincere servants.
161
But as for you, and that you serve,
162
you shall not tempt any against Him
163
except him who shall roast in Hell.
164
None of us is there, but has a known station;
165
we are the rangers,
166
we are they that give glory.
167
What though they would say,
168
‘If only we had had a Reminder from the ancients,
169
then were we God’s sincere servants.’
170
But they disbelieved in it; soon they shall know!
171
Already Our Word has preceded to Our servants, the Envoys;
172
assuredly they shall be helped,
173
and Our host -- they are the victors.
174
So turn thou from them for a while,
175
and see them; soon they shall see!
176
What, do they seek to hasten Our chastisement?
177
When it lights in their courtyard, how evil will be the morning of them that are warned!
178
So turn thou from them for a while,
179
and see; soon they shall see!
180
Glory be to thy Lord, the Lord of Glory, above that they describe!
181
And peace be upon the Envoys;
182
and praise belongs to God, the Lord of all Being.
Those who set the Ranks
Revealed at Mecca
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.
1
By those who set the ranks in battle order"
2
And those who drive away (the wicked) with reproof"
3
And those who read (the Word) for a reminder,
4
Lo! thy Lord is surely One;
5
Lord of the heavens and of the earth and all that is between them, and Lord of the sun’s risings.
6
Lo! We have adorned the lowest heaven with an ornament, the planets;
7
With security from every froward devil.
8
They cannot listen to the Highest Chiefs for they are pelted from every side,
9
Outcast, and theirs is a perpetual torment;
10
Save him who snatcheth a fragment, and there pursueth him a piercing flame.
11
Then ask them (O Muḥammad): Are they stronger as a creation, or those (others) whom we have created? Lo! We created them of plastic clay.
12
Nay, but thou dost marvel when they mock"
13
And heed not when they are reminded,
14
And seek to scoff when they behold a portent.
15
And they say: Lo! this is mere magic;
16
When we are dead and have become dust and bones, shall we then, forsooth, be raised (again)?
17
And our forefathers?
18
Say (O Muḥammad): Ye, in truth; and ye will be brought low.
19
There is but one Shout, and lo! they behold,
20
And say: Ah, woe for us! This is the Day of Judgment.
21
This is the Day of Separation, which ye used to deny.
22
(And it is said unto the angels): Assemble those who did wrong, together with their wives and what they used to worship"
23
Instead of Allah, and lead them to the path to hell;
24
And stop them, for they must be questioned.
25
What aileth you that ye help not one another?
26
Nay, but this day they make full submission.
27
And some of them draw near unto others, mutually questioning.
28
They say: Lo! ye used to come unto us, imposing, (swearing that ye spoke the truth).
29
They answer: Nay, but ye (yourselves) were not believers.
30
We had no power over you, but ye were wayward folk.
31
Now the Word of our Lord hath been fulfilled concerning us. Lo! we are about to taste (the doom).
32
Thus we misled you. Lo! we were (ourselves) astray.
33
Then lo! this day they (both) are sharers in the doom.
34
Lo! thus deal We with the guilty.
35
For when it was said unto them, There is no Allah save Allah, they were scornful"
36
And said: Shall we forsake our gods for a mad poet?
37
Nay, but he brought the Truth, and he confirmed those sent (before him).
38
Lo! (now) verily ye taste the painful doom -
39
Ye are requited naught save what ye did -
40
Save single-minded slaves of Allah;
41
For them there is a known provision,
42
Fruits. And they will be honoured"
43
In the Gardens of delight,
44
On couches facing one another;
45
A cup from a gushing spring is brought round for them,
46
White, delicious to the drinkers,
47
Wherein there is no headache nor are they made mad thereby.
48
And with them are those of modest gaze, with lovely eyes,
49
(Pure) as they were hidden eggs (of the ostrich).
50
And some of them draw near unto others, mutually questioning.
51
A speaker of them saith: Lo! I had a comrade"
52
Who used to say: Art thou in truth of those who put faith (in his words)?
53
Can we, when we are dead and have become mere dust and bones - can we (then) verily be brought to book?
54
He saith: Will ye look?
55
Then looketh he and seeth him in the depth of hell.
56
He saith: By Allah, thou verily didst all but cause my ruin,
57
And had it not been for the favour of my Lord, I too had been of those haled forth (to doom).
58
Are we then not to die"
59
Saving our former death, and are we not to be punished?
60
Lo! this is the supreme triumph.
61
For the like of this, then, let the workers work.
62
Is this better as a welcome, or the tree of Zaqqum?
63
Lo! We have appointed it a torment for wrong-doers.
64
Lo! it is a tree that springeth in the heart of hell.
65
Its crop is as it were the heads of devils"
66
And lo! they verily must eat thereof, and fill (their) bellies therewith.
67
And afterward, lo! thereupon they have a drink of boiling water"
68
And afterward, lo! their return is surely unto hell.
69
They indeed found their fathers astray,
70
But they make haste (to follow) in their footsteps.
71
And verily most of the men of old went astray before them,
72
And verily We sent among them warners.
73
Then see the nature of the consequence for those warned,
74
Save single-minded slaves of Allah.
75
And Noah verily prayed unto Us, and gracious was the Hearer of his prayer"
76
And We saved him and his household from the great distress,
77
And made his seed the survivors,
78
And left for him among the later folk (the salutation):
79
Peace be unto Noah among the peoples!
80
Lo! thus do We reward the good.
81
Lo! he is one of Our believing slaves.
82
Then We did drown the others.
83
And lo! of his persuasion verily was Abraham"
84
When he came unto his Lord with a whole heart;
85
When he said unto his father and his folk: What is it that ye worship?
86
Is it a falsehood - gods beside Allah - that ye desire?
87
What then is your opinion of the Lord of the Worlds?
88
And he glanced a glance at the stars"
89
Then said: Lo! I feel sick!
90
And they turned their backs and went away from him.
91
Then turned he to their gods and said: Will ye not eat?
92
What aileth you that ye speak not?
93
Then he attacked them, striking with his right hand.
94
And (his people) came toward him, hastening.
95
He said: Worship ye that which ye yourselves do carve"
96
When Allah hath created you and what ye make?
97
They said: Build for him a building and fling him in the red-hotfire.
98
And they designed a snare for him, but We made them the undermost.
99
And he said: Lo! I am going unto my Lord Who will guide me.
100
My Lord! Vouchsafe me of the righteous.
101
So We gave him tidings of a gentle son.
102
And when (his son) was old enough to walk with him, (Abraham) said: O my dear son, I have seen in a dream that I must sacrifice thee. So look, what thinkest thou? He said: O my father! Do that which thou art commanded. Allah willing, thou shalt find me of the steadfast.
103
Then, when they had both surrendered (to Allah), and he had flung him down upon his face,
104
We called unto him: O Abraham!
105
Thou hast already fulfilled the vision. Lo! thus do We reward the good.
106
Lo! that verily was a clear test.
107
Then We ransomed him with a tremendous victim.
108
And We left for him among the later folk (the salutation):
109
Peace be unto Abraham!
110
Thus do We reward the good.
111
Lo! he is one of Our believing slaves.
112
And we gave him tidings of the birth of Isaac, a prophet of the righteous.
113
And We blessed him and Isaac. And of their seed are some who do good, and some who plainly wrong themselves.
114
And We verily gave grace unto Moses and Aaron,
115
And saved them and their people from the great distress,
116
And helped them so that they became the victors.
117
And We gave them the clear Scripture"
118
And showed them the right path.
119
And We left for them among the later folk (the salutation):
120
Peace be unto Moses and Aaron!
121
Lo! thus do We reward the good.
122
Lo! they are two of Our believing slaves.
123
And lo! Elias was of those sent (to warn),
124
When he said unto his folk: Will ye not ward off (evil)?
125
Will ye cry unto Baal and forsake the Best of creators,
126
Allah, your Lord and Lord of your forefathers?
127
But they denied him, so they surely will be haled forth (to the doom)
128
Save single-minded slaves of Allah.
129
And we left for him among the later folk (the salutation):
130
Peace be unto Elias!
131
Lo! thus do We reward the good.
132
Lo! he is one of our believing slaves.
133
And lo! Lot verily was of those sent (to warn).
134
When We saved him and his household, every one,
135
Save an old woman among those who stayed behind;
136
Then We destroyed the others.
137
And lo! ye verily pass by (the ruin of) them in the morning"
138
And at night-time; have ye then no sense?
139
And lo! Jonah verily was of those sent (to warn)
140
When he fled unto the laden ship,
141
And then drew lots and was of those rejected;
142
And the fish swallowed him while he was blameworthy;
143
And had he not been one of those who glorify (Allah)
144
He would have tarried in its belly till the day when they are raised;
145
Then We cast him on a desert shore while he was sick;
146
And We caused a tree of gourd to grow above him;
147
And We sent him to a hundred thousand (folk) or more"
148
And they believed, therefor We gave them comfort for a while.
149
Now ask them (O Muḥammad): Hath thy Lord daughters whereas they have sons?
150
Or created We the angels females while they were present?
151
Lo! it is of their falsehood that they say:
152
Allah hath begotten. Allah! verily they tell a lie.
153
(And again of their falsehood): He hath preferred daughters to sons.
154
What aileth you? How judge ye?
155
Will ye not then reflect?
156
Or have ye a clear warrant?
157
Then produce your writ, if ye are truthful.
158
And they imagine kinship between him and the jinn, whereas the jinn know well that they will be brought before (Him).
159
Glorified be Allah from that which they attribute (unto Him),
160
Save single-minded slaves of Allah.
161
Lo! verily, ye and that which ye worship,
162
Ye cannot excite (anyone) against Him.
163
Save him who is to burn in hell.
164
There is not one of us but hath his known position.
165
Lo! we, even we are they who set the ranks,
166
Lo! we, even we are they who hymn His praise"
167
And indeed they used to say:
168
If we had but a reminder from the men of old"
169
We would be single-minded slaves of Allah.
170
Yet (now that it is come) they disbelieve therein; but they will come to know.
171
And verily Our word went forth of old unto Our bondmen sent (to warn)
172
That they verily would be helped,
173
And that Our host, they verily would be the victors.
174
So withdraw from them (O Muḥammad) awhile,
175
And watch, for they will (soon) see.
176
Would they hasten on Our doom?
177
But when it cometh home to them, then it will be a hapless morn for those who have been warned.
178
Withdraw from them awhile"
179
And watch, for they will (soon) see.
180
Glorified be thy Lord, the Lord of Majesty, from that which they attribute (unto Him)
181
And peace be unto those sent (to warn).
182
And praise be to Allah, Lord of the Worlds!
CHAP. XXXVII.
Intitled, Those who rank themselves in order;
revealed at Mecca.
In the name of the most merciful God.
1
a
;
Note [original edition] : By the angels who rank themselves in order;]
Some understand by these words the souls of men who range themselves
in obedience to God’s laws, and put away from them all infidelity and corrupt
doings; or the souls of those who rank themselves in battle array, to fight
for the true religion, and push on their horses to charge the infidels, &c1.
- 1 Al Beidâwi
2
b
;
Note [original edition] : Who drive forward and dispel the clouds;] Or, who put in motion all bodies, in the upper and lower world,
according to the divine command; or, who keep off men from disobedience to
God, by inspiring them with good thoughts and inclinations; or, who drive away
the devils from them, &c
2.
- 2 Idem.
3
4
5
c
.
Note [original edition] : The east;] The original word, being in the plural number, is supposed to signify
the different points of the horizon from whence the sun rises in the course of
the year, which are in number 360 (equal to the number of days in the old
civil year), and have as many corresponding points where it successively sets,
during that space3.
Marracci groundlessly imagines this interpretation to be
built on the error of the plurality of worlds4.
- 3 Idem, Yahya.
- 4 Marracc. in Alc. p. 589.
6
7
8
9
10
d
.
Note [original edition] : See chap. 15. p. 211.
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
a
;
Note [original edition] : With presages of prosperity;] Literally, from the right hand. The words may also be rendered, with
force, to compel us; or, with an oath, swearing that ye were in the right.
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
b
:
Note [original edition] : See chap. 15. p. 212. not. e.
45
46
47
48
49
c
.
Note [original edition] : Resembling the eggs of an ostrich, &c.] This may seem an odd comparison to an European; but the orientals
think nothing comes so near the colour of a fine woman’s skin as that of an
ostrich’s egg when kept perfectly clean.
50
51
52
53
54
55
56
57
58
59
60
61
62
d
?
Note [original edition] : Al Zakkûm.] There is a thorny tree so called, which grows in Tehâma, and bears
fruit like an almond, but extremely bitter; and therefore the same name is
given to this infernal tree.
63
e
.
Note [original edition] : An occasion of dispute;] The infidels not conceiving how a tree could grow in hell, where the
stones themselves serve for fewel.
64
65
a
;
Note [original edition] : Of devils;] Or of serpents ugly to behold; the original word signifies both.
66
67
68
b
.
Note [original edition] : Afterwards shall they return into hell.] Some suppose that the entertainment mentioned will be the welcome
given the damned before they enter that place; and others, that they will be
suffered to come out of hell from time to time, to drink their scalding
liquor.
69
70
71
72
73
74
75
76
77
78
79
80
81
82
83
c
:
Note [original edition] : Abraham also was of his religion;] For Noah and he agreed in the fundamental points both of faith and
practice; tho’ the space between them was no less than 2640 years1.
- 1 Al Beidawi.
84
85
86
87
88
89
d
, and shall not assist at your
sacrifices:
Note [original edition] : And he observed the stars, and said, I shall be sick;]
He made as if he gathered so much from the aspect of the heavens (the
people being greatly addicted to the superstitions of astrology) and made it
his excuse for being absent from their festival, to which they had invited
him.
90
e
.
Note [original edition] : And they turned their backs; &c.] Fearing he had some contagious distemper2.
- 2 Idem.
91
92
93
94
95
96
97
98
f
.
Note [original edition] : See chap. 21. p. 268, &c.
99
g
, who will direct me.
Note [original edition] : Unto my Lord;] i. e. Whither he hath commanded me.
100
101
102
h
, and could join in acts
of religion with him,
Abraham
said unto him, O my son, verily I saw in a dream that I should
offer thee in
Note [original edition] : To years of discretion;] He was then thirteen years old3.
- 3 Idem.
a
: consider therefore what thou art of opinion I should
do. He answered, O my father, do what thou art commanded: thou shalt find me,
if God please, a patient person.
Note [original edition] : I dreamed that I should sacrifice thee, &c.]
The commentators say, that Abraham was ordered in a vision, which he
saw on the eighth night of the month Dhu’lhajja, to sacrifice his son; and to
assure him that this was not from the devil, as he was inclined to suspect,
the same vision was repeated a second time the next night, when he knew it to
be from God, and also a third time the night following, when he resolved to
obey it, and to sacrifice his son; and hence some think the 8th, 9th, and
10th days of Dhu’lhajja are called Yawm altarwiya, yawm arafat, and yawm
alnehr, that is, the day of the vision, the day of knowledge, and the day of
the sacrifice.
It is the most received opinion among the Mohammedans that the son whom
Abraham offered was Ismael, and not Isaac, Ismael being his only son at that
time: for the promise of Isaac’s birth is mentioned lower, as subsequent in
time to this transaction. They also allege the testimony of their prophet,
who is reported to have said, I am the son of the two who were offered in
sacrifice; meaning his great ancestor, Ismael, and his own father Abd’allah:
for Abd’almotalleb had made a vow that if God would permit him to find out and
open the well Zemzem, and should give him ten sons, he would sacrifice one of
them. Accordingly, when he had obtained his desire in both respects, he cast
lots on his sons, and the lot falling on Abd’allah, he redeemed him by
offering a hundred camels, which was therefore ordered to be the price of a
man’s blood in the Sonna
1.
- 1 Idem, Jallalo’ddin, al Zamakh.
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Note [original edition] : And had laid him prostrate of his face.] The commentators add, that Abraham went so far as to draw the knife
with all his strength across the lad’s throat, but was miraculously hindered
from hurting him2.
- 2 Idem, Jallalo’ddin.
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.
Note [original edition] : A noble victim;] The epithet of great or noble is here added, either because it was
large and fat, or because it was accepted as the ransom of a prophet. Some
suppose this victim was a ram, and, if we may believe a common tradition, the
very same which Abel sacrificed, having been brought to Abraham out of
paradise; others fancy it was a wild-goat, which came down from mount Thabîr,
near Mecca, for the Mohammedans lay the scene of this transaction in the
valley of Mina; as a proof of which they tell us that the horns of the victim
were hung upon the spout of the Caaba, where they remained till they were
burnt, together with that building, in the days of Abda’llah Ebn Zobeir
3;
tho’ others assure us that they had been before taken down by Mohammed
himself, to remove all occasion of idolatry4.
- 3 Iidem.
- 4 V. D’Herb. Bibl. Orient. Art. Ismail.
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was also one of those
Note [original edition] : Elias;]
This prophet the Mohammedans generally suppose to be the same with al
Khedr, and confound him with Phineas
1,
and sometimes with Edris, or Enoch.
Some say he was the son of Yasin, and nearly related to Aaron; and others
suppose him to have been a different person. He was sent to the inhabitants
of Baalbec, in Syria, the Heliopolis of the Greeks, to reclaim them from the
worship of their idol Baal, or the sun, whose name makes part of that of the
city, which was anciently called Becc
2.
- 1 See chap. 18. p. 245. not. a.
- 2 Jallal. Al Beidawi.
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!
Note [original edition] : Ilyasin;] The commentators do not well know what to make of this word. Some
think it is the plural of Elias, or, as the Arabs write it, Ilyâs, and that
both that prophet and his followers, or those who resembled him, are meant
thereby; others divide the word, and read âl Yasîn, i.e. the family of Yasin,
who was the father of Elias according to an opinion mentioned above; and
others imagine it signifies Mohammed, or the Korân, or some other book of
scripture. But the most probable conjecture is that Ilyâs and Ilyâsin are the
same name, or design one and the same person, as Sinai and Sinin denote one
and the same mountain; the last syllable being added here, to keep up the
rhyme or cadence, at the close of the verse.
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Note [original edition] : See chap. 7. p. 125, &c., and chap. 11. p. 183, &c.
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Note [original edition] : See chap. 10. p. 174.
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d
into the loaded ship;
Note [original edition] : See chap. 21. p. 272.
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, and he was
condemned
Note [original edition] : They cast lots;] Al Beidawi says the ship stood stock-still, wherefore they concluded
that they had a fugitive servant on board, and cast lots to find him out.
f
:
Note [original edition] : He was condemned;] i.e. He was taken by the lot.
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g
; for he was worthy of reprehension.
Note [original edition] : The fish swallowed him;] When the lot fell on Jonas he cried out, I am the fugitive; and
immediately threw himself into the sea3.
- 3 Iidem.
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h
,
Note [original edition] : One of those who praised God;]
The words seem to relate particularly to Jonas’s supplication while
in the whale’s belly4.
- 4 See chap. 21. p. 272.
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145
i
:
Note [original edition] : He was sick;] By reason of what he had suffered; his body becoming like that of a
new-born child5.
It is said that the fish, after it had swallowed Jonas, swam
after the ship with its head above water, that the prophet might breathe, who
continued to praise God till the fish came to land and vomited him out.
The opinions of the Mohammedan writers as to the time Jonas continued in
the fish’s belly differ very much: some suppose it was part of a day, others
three days, others seven, others twenty, and others forty6.
- 5 Al Beidawi.
- 6 Idem.
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k
to grow up over him;
Note [original edition] : A gourd;]
The original word signifies a plant which spreads itself upon the
ground, having no erect stalk or stem to support it, and particularly a gourd;
tho’ some imagine Jonas’s plant to have been a fig, and others the small
tree or shrub called Mauz
1,
which bears very large leaves, and excellent
fruit2.
The commentators add, that this plant withered the next morning, and
that Jonas being much concerned at it, God made a remonstrance to him in
behalf of the Ninivites, agreeable to what is recorded in scripture.
- 1 Idem.
- 2 V. J. Leon. Descr. Afric. lib. 9. Gab. Sionit. de Urb. Orient. ad calcem Geogr. Nub. p. 55, & Hottinger. Hist. Orient. p. 78, &c.
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Note [original edition] : See chap. 16. p. 218.
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; whereas the genii know
that they who affirm such things, shall be delivered up to eternal punishment;
Note [original edition] : The Genii;] That is, the angels, who are also comprehended under the name of
genii, being a species of them. Some say that the infidels went so far as to
assert that God and the devil were brothers3,
which blasphemous expression may
have been occasioned by the magian notions.
- 3 Al Beidawi.
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.
Note [original edition] : There is none of us but hath an appointed place, &c.] These words are supposed to be spoken by the angels, disclaiming the
worship paid to them by the idolaters, and declaring that they have each their
station and office appointed them by God, whose commands they are at all times
ready to execute, and whose praises they continually sing. There are some
expositors, however, who think they are the words of Mohammed and his
followers; the meaning being, that each of them has a place destined for him
in paradise, and that they are the men who range themselves in order before
God, to worship and pray to him, and who celebrate his praise by rejecting
every false notion derogatory to the divine wisdom and power.
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ГЛАВА О ЧИНАХ .
СОДЕРЖИТ
ОСМЬДЕСЯТ
СТИХОВ , ПИСАННЫХ
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