This is a soora, what a soora; whenever I recite: I see it marvelous and horrible in describing the hour of death, the afterlife and Judgment Day.
Those who like to listen to its recital: ???? ? | ???? ???? ????????
This is its interpretation by Mohammed-Ali Hassan Al-Hilly:
{50: 1. Qaf.a
This abbreviated Arabic letter means: (Guardian!)b
c (By the glorious Quran!)
2. Now they surprise that there has come to them a warner [: Mohammed, the son of Abdullah] from among themselves; so the disbelievers say: "This [indeed] is a strange thing."
3. "Is [it true] that d when we die and become dust, [we will then be recreated and will return to be alive once again?]
Such a returning is far [from reason.]"
[Therefore, God – be glorified – said:]
4. Well we know that which the earth consumes of their f [bodies, but not the souls.]
And with Us is a book [in which their deeds are written], preserved [with Us g.]
5. But they have denied the truth when it has come to them, therefore they are now in confused state [: of doubting.]h}
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a Quraish tribe said that the Prophet was mad, while another group said that he was a magician. So God – be glorified – disapproved their words, and said:
b i.e. Mohammed is a guardian on you, who desires every blessing to you, like the guardian of orphans who brings them up and takes care about their affairs, but is neither mad nor magician.
c Then God – be glorified – swore by the glorious Quran that Mohammed is a guardian on you who desires every blessing to you.
Another aya similar to this one, is in the Quran 18: 1-2, which means:
(Praise is due to God, Who has sent down, to His servant [Mohammed], the Book, and has not assigned in it [to his servant Mohammed] any encumbrance.
[Then God – be glorified – started to describe His servant Mohammed, and He said:]
[So that Mohammed will be] a guardian [on you]:
to warn [the disbelievers] of a mighty punishment [coming] from Him,
and [to] bear glad tidings to the believers.)
So His saying – be glorified – in the aya, which means: (a guardian) is a description related to His servant Mohammed, not related to the book.
Because every prophet is a guardian on his nation like the guardian on orphans.
Moreover, God – be glorified – said in the Quran 98: 5, which means:
(Being ‘hanifs’ [or monotheists according to the religion of Prophet Abraham],
and to observe the [prescribed] prayers,
and to pay the Zakat [alms, out of their wealth];
such [religion just mentioned] is the religion of the [apostles or messengers who were] guardians [on their followers.])
d With which Mohammed threatens us: that we will return to life once again.
f It means: We know that the earth will consume their bodies after death, and converts them into dust, but souls are eternal and living, which neither will the earth consume nor will the wind tear up; because the soul is the true man, while the body is nothing more than a mold for forming the soul.
g So We will punish them according to their disbelieving and denial of the message of Our messenger.
h The meaning: The associaters are in a confused doubt about the Prophet – salam to him: some of them say: he is mad, others say a magician, some say: a poet, some say: a liar and others say: truthful; and so on they do not settle on one single opinion.
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{50: 6. Will they not look at [and consider] the sky above them: how We have constructed it [in gaseous layers packed one over another] and adorned it [with the planets and meteors], and that it has no gaps [between its layers a]?
7. And the earth have We supplemented [with dust particles, meteorites and gases] b,
and cast on it [mountains] that heavily landed c,
and planted on it all pleasant kinds [of plant.] d
8. As an insight [for God’s servants e] and an admonition to every servant who turns [to God with repentance and obedience.]
9. And We sent down from the sky [rain] water as a blessing f, and caused to grow therewith gardens g and the harvest grain h [of crops.]
10. And 'tall graceful' palm trees, having spathes i, piled up [each above the other.]
11. [We made such plants, seeds and fruits as] a provision for [Our] servants, and with the [rain water] We quicken a dead land j.
Even so will be [your] going out [of Mecca and your migration to Medina.] k }
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a But they are laid, without separation, one over another; He means by that the gaseous layers.
This also has been explained in my book The Universe and the Quran.
b i.e. He increased its [mass and volume] by means of the dust particles which fall upon it coming from the space, and the gases which combine with the metals leading to the increase in their volumes; in addition to the celestial rocks [: the meteorites] which fall upon it.
c It means: We cast on the earth the meteorites which were in the space, and they became meteorites that landed and settled on the earth.
d i.e. every kind having beautiful scene like sweet-smelling flowers, fresh trees and green fields.
e To think about them and realize that there is a Maker Who has made them and an All-Wise God Who perfected their creation, so that they should be grateful to Him for such bounties.
f With which the plant is blessed, i.e. increased.
g And orchards.
h i.e. that is harvested, like the wheat, the barley and others.
i Which is the first to appear of the fruit.
j Which is devoid of any plant, so that it becomes green and grassy.
k It means: We will enrich you after the poverty, and dignify you after the humiliation. So the ‘life’ is an implication of the dignity and richness, and the ‘death’ is an implication of the humiliation and poverty.
Therefore, in this aya, God – be glorified – encourages the believers to go out of Mecca and to migrate to Medina.
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[Then God – be glorified – told about some disbelieving nations to confirm the Prophet and to threaten the disbelievers, and He said:]
12. The people of Noah denied [the messengers] before [your people], and [so did] the people of the Torrent a [of Arim at Sheba] and the [tribe of] Thamood b,
13. And [the tribe of] Aad c, and Pharaoh, and the brethren of Lot [: the people of Sodom],
14. And the people of the [miraculous] Tree [or the ‘Ayka’ of Midian d], and the people of Tubba e; all [of them] denied the messengers, so My [punishment] with which I threatened [them] was duly fulfilled f.
15. Were We, then, wearied by the first creation? [: their creation at the beginning in the wombs of their mothers g.]
No indeed; but they are in 'confusion and doubting' as to the new creation h.
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a This word has been explained in the interpretation of the Quran 25: 38.
b i.e. the people of Prophet Salih.
c i.e. the people of Prophet Hood.
d They were the people of Prophet Shuaib; the ‘Ayka’ or the [miraculous] Tree was his miracle; as was it explained in the interpretation of the Quran 15: 78.
e He is Tubba the Himiarite, about whom we have explained in the interpretation of the Quran 44: 37.
f i.e. the punishment which We warned them of, by the tongue of Our apostles, was due for them, and they were worthy of it.
g Didn’t we create them without tiredness, difficulty or toil?
h i.e. the recreating of the decayed bodies, for there is not any toil, or difficulty to Us to resurrect them once again, but this is useless; because souls live forever, and it is they that will be taken to account and will be requited.
Those who like to listen to its recital: ???? ? | ???? ???? ????????
This is its interpretation by Mohammed-Ali Hassan Al-Hilly:
Soora 50
(In the name of God, Most Gracious, Most Merciful)
{50: 1. Qaf.a
This abbreviated Arabic letter means: (Guardian!)b
c (By the glorious Quran!)
2. Now they surprise that there has come to them a warner [: Mohammed, the son of Abdullah] from among themselves; so the disbelievers say: "This [indeed] is a strange thing."
3. "Is [it true] that d when we die and become dust, [we will then be recreated and will return to be alive once again?]
Such a returning is far [from reason.]"
[Therefore, God – be glorified – said:]
4. Well we know that which the earth consumes of their f [bodies, but not the souls.]
And with Us is a book [in which their deeds are written], preserved [with Us g.]
5. But they have denied the truth when it has come to them, therefore they are now in confused state [: of doubting.]h}
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a Quraish tribe said that the Prophet was mad, while another group said that he was a magician. So God – be glorified – disapproved their words, and said:
b i.e. Mohammed is a guardian on you, who desires every blessing to you, like the guardian of orphans who brings them up and takes care about their affairs, but is neither mad nor magician.
c Then God – be glorified – swore by the glorious Quran that Mohammed is a guardian on you who desires every blessing to you.
Another aya similar to this one, is in the Quran 18: 1-2, which means:
(Praise is due to God, Who has sent down, to His servant [Mohammed], the Book, and has not assigned in it [to his servant Mohammed] any encumbrance.
[Then God – be glorified – started to describe His servant Mohammed, and He said:]
[So that Mohammed will be] a guardian [on you]:
to warn [the disbelievers] of a mighty punishment [coming] from Him,
and [to] bear glad tidings to the believers.)
So His saying – be glorified – in the aya, which means: (a guardian) is a description related to His servant Mohammed, not related to the book.
Because every prophet is a guardian on his nation like the guardian on orphans.
Moreover, God – be glorified – said in the Quran 98: 5, which means:
(Being ‘hanifs’ [or monotheists according to the religion of Prophet Abraham],
and to observe the [prescribed] prayers,
and to pay the Zakat [alms, out of their wealth];
such [religion just mentioned] is the religion of the [apostles or messengers who were] guardians [on their followers.])
d With which Mohammed threatens us: that we will return to life once again.
f It means: We know that the earth will consume their bodies after death, and converts them into dust, but souls are eternal and living, which neither will the earth consume nor will the wind tear up; because the soul is the true man, while the body is nothing more than a mold for forming the soul.
g So We will punish them according to their disbelieving and denial of the message of Our messenger.
h The meaning: The associaters are in a confused doubt about the Prophet – salam to him: some of them say: he is mad, others say a magician, some say: a poet, some say: a liar and others say: truthful; and so on they do not settle on one single opinion.
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{50: 6. Will they not look at [and consider] the sky above them: how We have constructed it [in gaseous layers packed one over another] and adorned it [with the planets and meteors], and that it has no gaps [between its layers a]?
7. And the earth have We supplemented [with dust particles, meteorites and gases] b,
and cast on it [mountains] that heavily landed c,
and planted on it all pleasant kinds [of plant.] d
8. As an insight [for God’s servants e] and an admonition to every servant who turns [to God with repentance and obedience.]
9. And We sent down from the sky [rain] water as a blessing f, and caused to grow therewith gardens g and the harvest grain h [of crops.]
10. And 'tall graceful' palm trees, having spathes i, piled up [each above the other.]
11. [We made such plants, seeds and fruits as] a provision for [Our] servants, and with the [rain water] We quicken a dead land j.
Even so will be [your] going out [of Mecca and your migration to Medina.] k }
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a But they are laid, without separation, one over another; He means by that the gaseous layers.
This also has been explained in my book The Universe and the Quran.
b i.e. He increased its [mass and volume] by means of the dust particles which fall upon it coming from the space, and the gases which combine with the metals leading to the increase in their volumes; in addition to the celestial rocks [: the meteorites] which fall upon it.
c It means: We cast on the earth the meteorites which were in the space, and they became meteorites that landed and settled on the earth.
d i.e. every kind having beautiful scene like sweet-smelling flowers, fresh trees and green fields.
e To think about them and realize that there is a Maker Who has made them and an All-Wise God Who perfected their creation, so that they should be grateful to Him for such bounties.
f With which the plant is blessed, i.e. increased.
g And orchards.
h i.e. that is harvested, like the wheat, the barley and others.
i Which is the first to appear of the fruit.
j Which is devoid of any plant, so that it becomes green and grassy.
k It means: We will enrich you after the poverty, and dignify you after the humiliation. So the ‘life’ is an implication of the dignity and richness, and the ‘death’ is an implication of the humiliation and poverty.
Therefore, in this aya, God – be glorified – encourages the believers to go out of Mecca and to migrate to Medina.
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[Then God – be glorified – told about some disbelieving nations to confirm the Prophet and to threaten the disbelievers, and He said:]
12. The people of Noah denied [the messengers] before [your people], and [so did] the people of the Torrent a [of Arim at Sheba] and the [tribe of] Thamood b,
13. And [the tribe of] Aad c, and Pharaoh, and the brethren of Lot [: the people of Sodom],
14. And the people of the [miraculous] Tree [or the ‘Ayka’ of Midian d], and the people of Tubba e; all [of them] denied the messengers, so My [punishment] with which I threatened [them] was duly fulfilled f.
15. Were We, then, wearied by the first creation? [: their creation at the beginning in the wombs of their mothers g.]
No indeed; but they are in 'confusion and doubting' as to the new creation h.
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a This word has been explained in the interpretation of the Quran 25: 38.
b i.e. the people of Prophet Salih.
c i.e. the people of Prophet Hood.
d They were the people of Prophet Shuaib; the ‘Ayka’ or the [miraculous] Tree was his miracle; as was it explained in the interpretation of the Quran 15: 78.
e He is Tubba the Himiarite, about whom we have explained in the interpretation of the Quran 44: 37.
f i.e. the punishment which We warned them of, by the tongue of Our apostles, was due for them, and they were worthy of it.
g Didn’t we create them without tiredness, difficulty or toil?
h i.e. the recreating of the decayed bodies, for there is not any toil, or difficulty to Us to resurrect them once again, but this is useless; because souls live forever, and it is they that will be taken to account and will be requited.
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