This Surah (Revealed) Meccan or Medinese, consisting of 14 verses.(As-Saff)
Ayah 61:1 الأية
بِسْم ِ اللهِ الرَّحْمَٰنِ الرَّحِيمِ
Ayah First 1 الأية
Tafseer
All that is in the heavens and all that is in the earth glorifies God, that is
to say, [everything] proclaims His transcendence (the lām [of liâLlāhi] is extra, and mā has been used instead of
min in order to indicate the predominance [of non-rational creatures]) and He is the Mighty, in His kingdom,
the Wise, in His actions.
Ayah 61:2 الأية
Tafseer
O you who believe, why do you say, in demanding [to participate in] the
struggle, what you do not do?, for you retreated at Uhud.
Ayah 61:3 الأية
Tafseer
It is greatly loathsome (maqtan is for specification) to God that you say (an
taqūlū constitutes the agent of [the verb] kabura, âit is great[ly]â) what you do not do.
Ayah 61:4 الأية
Tafseer
664 Indeed God loves, He assists and honours, those who fight for His cause in ranks
(saffan is a circumstantial qualifier, in other words [understand it as] sāffīna), as if they were a solid
structure, with all of its parts compacted together, firm.
Ayah 61:5 الأية
Tafseer
And, mention, when Moses said to his people, âO my people, why do you harm me â
[for] they had said that he had a hernia in his testicles, which he did not have, and they denied
him â when certainly (qad is for confirmation) you know that I am the messenger of God to you?â (annī
rasūluâLlāhi ilaykum: this sentence is a circumstantial qualifier) and [when you know that] messengers
ought to be respected. So when they deviated, when they swerved away from the truth by harming him, God
caused their hearts to deviate: He turned them away from guidance, in accordance to what He had
preordained since pre-eternity, and God does not guide the immoral folk, those who, in His knowledge, are
disbelievers.
Ayah 61:6 الأية
Tafseer
And, mention, when Jesus son of Mary said, âO Children of Israel â he did not
say âO my peopleâ [as did Moses] because he was not related to them in any way â I am indeed Godâs
messenger to you, confirming what is before me of the Torah and bringing good tidings of a messenger who will
come after me, whose name is Ahmad.â God, exalted be He, says: Yet when he brought them, [when] Ahmad
brought the disbelievers, the clear signs, the revelations and the indications, they said,
âThis, namely, what has been brought, is manifest sorcery!â (sihrun: a variant reading has sāhirun, âa
sorcererâ, meaning the one who has brought them [is a manifest sorcerer]).
Ayah 61:7 الأية
Tafseer
And who does â that is to say, none does â greater wrong than he who invents
lies against God, by ascribing a partner and a child to Him and describing His signs as being
sorcery, when he is [actually] being summoned to submission [to God]? And God does not guide the wrongdoing folk, the
disbelieving [folk].
Ayah 61:8 الأية
Tafseer
They desire to extinguish (li-yutfiâū is in the subjunctive form because of an
implicit an [sc. an yutfiâū], the lām being extra) the light of God, His Law and His proofs, with their mouths,
with their sayings, that this is sorcery, or poetry or soothsaying; but God will perfect, He will manifest, His
light (mutimmun nūrahu: some have read this in the form of a genitive annextation, mutimmu nūrihi) though the
disbelievers be averse, to this.
Ayah 61:9 الأية
Tafseer
It is He Who has sent His Messenger with the guidance and the religion of truth,
that He may make it prevail, that He may raise it, over all [other] religions, [over] all the
religions which oppose it, though the disbelievers be averse, to this.
Ayah 61:10 الأية
Tafseer
O you who believe, shall I show you a commerce that will deliver you (read
tunjīkum or tunajjīkum) from a painful chastisement? It is as if they had replied, âYesâ, so that He then says:
Ayah 61:11 الأية
Tafseer
You should believe, you should maintain faith, in God and His Messenger and
struggle for the cause of God with your possessions and your lives. That is better for you, should you know,
that it is better for you, then do it.
Ayah 61:12 الأية
Tafseer
665 He will [then] forgive you (yaghfir is the response to an implied conditional,
that is to say, âif you do this, He will then forgive youâ) your sins and admit you into gardens underneath which
rivers flow and pleasant dwellings in the Gardens of Eden, as a residence. That is the supreme triumph.
Ayah 61:13 الأية
Tafseer
And, He will give you, another, grace, which you love: help from God and a
victory near at hand. And give good tidings to the believers, of assistance and victory.
Ayah 61:14 الأية
Tafseer
O you who believe, be helpers of God, of His religion (a variant reading [of
ansāran liâLlāhi] has the genitive annexation ansāraâLlāhi) just as said (kamā qāla to the end [of the statement]
means âjust as the disciples were soâ, as is indicated by [what follows]) Jesus son of Mary to the disciples,
âWho will be my helpers unto God?â, that is to say, who [of you] will be helpers alongside me turning to help
God? The disciples said, âWe will be Godâs helpers!â [These] al-hawāriyyūn [were] the intimates of Jesus, for
they were the first to believe in him. They were twelve men of pure white complexion (hawar); but it is also
said that [their epithet derives from the fact that] they were bleachers (qassārūn) who bleached
(yuhawwirūna) clothes. So a group of the Children of Israel believed, in Jesus, saying: âHe is [indeed] the
servant of God, [who has been] raised to heavenâ, while a group disbelieved, because they said that he was the son of
God, whom He had raised unto Himself. Thus the two groups waged war against one another. Then We
strengthened those who believed, of the two groups, against their enemy, the disbelieving groups, and
so they became the triumphant, the victors.