35. Surah Faatir

فاطرThe Originator · 45 ayahsتفہیم القرآن انگلش

Ayah 35:34

وَ قَالُوا الْحَمْدُ لِلّٰهِ الَّذِیْۤ اَذْهَبَ عَنَّا الْحَزَنَ١ؕ اِنَّ رَبَّنَا لَغَفُوْرٌ شَكُوْرُۙ Open ayah 35:34 in the Quran reader

They will say, "Praise be unto Allah Who has removed sorrow from us 58 : surely, our Lord is Forgiving and Bounteous, 59

58 "Sorrow": Sorrow of every kind: sorrows and Briefs and worries of the world and of the Hereafter with regard to the final end. It means : "Now we have nothing to worry about: now there can be no question of any sorrow and trouble afflicting us here. " 59 That is "He has forgiven us our errors, has appreciated whatever little provision of deeds we had brought and blessed us with His Paradise as a reward."
Ayah 35:35

اِ۟لَّذِیْۤ اَحَلَّنَا دَارَ الْمُقَامَةِ مِنْ فَضْلِهٖ١ۚ لَا یَمَسُّنَا فِیْهَا نَصَبٌ وَّ لَا یَمَسُّنَا فِیْهَا لُغُوْبٌ Open ayah 35:35 in the Quran reader

Who by His grace has lodged us in an eternal abode 60 : here we do neither experience any trial nor any weariness. " 61

60 That is, "The world was a stage in our journey of life, which we have crossed, and the plain of Resurrection also is a stage of the same journey, which we have also crossed. Now we have reached a place which is our eternal abode: we have not to go elsewhere from here." 61 In other words, "All our toils and afflictions have come to an end. Now we do not have to perform any work here in carrying out which we might have to experience any rigour or hardship and after carrying out which we might be fatigued."
Ayah 35:36

وَ الَّذِیْنَ كَفَرُوْا لَهُمْ نَارُ جَهَنَّمَ١ۚ لَا یُقْضٰى عَلَیْهِمْ فَیَمُوْتُوْا وَ لَا یُخَفَّفُ عَنْهُمْ مِّنْ عَذَابِهَا١ؕ كَذٰلِكَ نَجْزِیْ كُلَّ كَفُوْرٍۚ Open ayah 35:36 in the Quran reader

And for those who have disbelieved 62 there is the Fire of Hell: neither will , it be decreed that they should die, nor will the torment of Hell be lightened for them in any way. Thus do We requite every disbeliever.

62 "Who have disbelieved": Who have refused to believe in the Book which Allah has sent down on Muhammad (upon whom be His peace and blessings).
Ayahs 35:37–38

وَ هُمْ یَصْطَرِخُوْنَ فِیْهَا١ۚ رَبَّنَاۤ اَخْرِجْنَا نَعْمَلْ صَالِحًا غَیْرَ الَّذِیْ كُنَّا نَعْمَلُ١ؕ اَوَ لَمْ نُعَمِّرْكُمْ مَّا یَتَذَكَّرُ فِیْهِ مَنْ تَذَكَّرَ وَ جَآءَكُمُ النَّذِیْرُ١ؕ فَذُوْقُوْا فَمَا لِلظّٰلِمِیْنَ مِنْ نَّصِیْرٍ۠ Open ayah 35:37 in the Quran reader

There they will cry out and say, "Our Lord, take us out from here so that we may do good works other than those which we had been doing." (The reply will be_:) "Did We not give you lives long enough so that he who would, could take a warning 63 ? and the warner also had come to you. Now taste (the torment): the wicked will have no helper here."

اِنَّ اللّٰهَ عٰلِمُ غَیْبِ السَّمٰوٰتِ وَ الْاَرْضِ١ؕ اِنَّهٗ عَلِیْمٌۢ بِذَاتِ الصُّدُوْرِ Open ayah 35:38 in the Quran reader

Surely, Allah is aware of every secret thing in the heavens and the earth: He even knows the hidden secrets of the breasts.

63 This implies every such age of life in which a person may be able to distinguish between good and evil, truth and falsehood, if he likes to, and turn to right guidance instead of deviation, if he wishes. If a person has died before attaining such an age, he will not be called to any account according to this verse. However, the one who has attained this age will certainly be held answerable for his actions. Then, as long as he lives after attaining this age and gets more and more opportunities for choosing and adopting the right path, his responsibility also will increase accordingly; so much so that the one who does not adopt right guidance even in old age will have no chance left for making any excuse. This same thing has been reported by Hadrat Abu Hurairah and Hadrat Sahl bin Sa'd as-Sa'idi in a Hadith, saying: "The one who lives a short life has an excuse to offer, but there is no room for making an excuse for him who lives for 60 years or more." (Bukhari Ahmad, Nasa'i, Ibn Jarir, Ibn Abi Hatim).
Ayah 35:39

هُوَ الَّذِیْ جَعَلَكُمْ خَلٰٓئِفَ فِی الْاَرْضِ١ؕ فَمَنْ كَفَرَ فَعَلَیْهِ كُفْرُهٗ١ؕ وَ لَا یَزِیْدُ الْكٰفِرِیْنَ كُفْرُهُمْ عِنْدَ رَبِّهِمْ اِلَّا مَقْتًا١ۚ وَ لَا یَزِیْدُ الْكٰفِرِیْنَ كُفْرُهُمْ اِلَّا خَسَارًا Open ayah 35:39 in the Quran reader

He it is Who has made you vicegerents in the earth. 64 Now whoever disbelieves shall himself bear the burden of his disbelief, 65 and for the disbelievers their disbelief does not increase anything except the wrath of their Lord and the disbelievers do not gain anything except an increase in their loss

64 This can have two meanings: (1) "Now He has settled you on His earth after the passing away of the previous generations and nations;" and (2) "the powers and authority that He has given you over different things in the earth are not meant to make you the owners of these things but are meant to enable you to function as the representatives of their real Owner. " 65 If the previous sentence is taken to mean that you have been made successors to the previous nations, this sentence would mean this: "The one who did not learn any lesson from the fate of the previous nations and adopted the conduct of disbelief due to which those nations have gone to their doom, will himself see the evil end of his folly." And if the sentence is taken to mean this that Allah has delegated to you powers and authority as His vicegerents in the earth, this sentence would mean: `He who forgot this position of vicegerency and became independent, or he who adopted service of someone else, apart from his real Master, would see the evil end of his rebellious conduct himself."
Ayah 35:40

قُلْ اَرَءَیْتُمْ شُرَكَآءَكُمُ الَّذِیْنَ تَدْعُوْنَ مِنْ دُوْنِ اللّٰهِ١ؕ اَرُوْنِیْ مَا ذَا خَلَقُوْا مِنَ الْاَرْضِ اَمْ لَهُمْ شِرْكٌ فِی السَّمٰوٰتِ١ۚ اَمْ اٰتَیْنٰهُمْ كِتٰبًا فَهُمْ عَلٰى بَیِّنَتٍ مِّنْهُ١ۚ بَلْ اِنْ یَّعِدُ الظّٰلِمُوْنَ بَعْضُهُمْ بَعْضًا اِلَّا غُرُوْرًا Open ayah 35:40 in the Quran reader

(O Prophet,) say to them, "Have you ever seen those associates of yours 66 whom you invoke instead of Allah ? Tell me: What have they created in the earth, or what is their share in the heavens?" (If they cannot tell this, ask them :) "Have We given them a writing affording a clear sanction (for their shirk)?" 67 Nay, but these wicked people are only beguiling one another with delusions. 68

66 "Associates of yours", because they are not in fact the associates of Allah, but the ones whom the polytheists themselves have made associates of Allah. 67 That is, "Do they possess a written sanction from Us in which We might have indicated that We have given such and such persons the powers to heal the sick, or to get jobs for the jobless, or to fulfil needs of the needy, or that We have made such and such beings Our representatives in such and such parts of the earth and now it is in their hands to make or mar the destinies of the people of those parts; therefore, Our servants now should pray to them and present gifts and offerings before them, and for whatever blessings they receive they should thank those "demigods" only? If you possess any such sanction, produce it. And if you have no such sanction, you should consider on what grounds you have invented these polytheistic creeds and practices. When you are asked as to what sign is there in the heavens and the earth that may point to your self invented gods as being God's associates, you cannot point out any. When you arc asked to product any Divine sanction from any Book of Allah, or from your own possession, or from the possession of your self-invented gods, which may testify to God s having Himself delegated to them those powers which you assign to them, you do not produce any. What then is the basis of your these creeds and concepts? Are you the owners of the Divine rights and powers that you may assign and distribute them to whomsoever you please?" 68 That is, "These religious guides, saints, priests, sorcerers, preachers and attendants of shrines and their agents are befooling the people for selfish motives, and are concocting stories to give them false hopes that if they became the followers of such and such personalities, apart from God, they would have all their wishes and needs fulfilled in the world, and all their sins, no matter-how grave and numerous, forgiven by Allah in the Hereafter."
Ayah 35:41

اِنَّ اللّٰهَ یُمْسِكُ السَّمٰوٰتِ وَ الْاَرْضَ اَنْ تَزُوْلَا١ۚ۬ وَ لَئِنْ زَالَتَاۤ اِنْ اَمْسَكَهُمَا مِنْ اَحَدٍ مِّنْۢ بَعْدِهٖ١ؕ اِنَّهٗ كَانَ حَلِیْمًا غَفُوْرًا Open ayah 35:41 in the Quran reader

The fact is that it is Allah alone Who is sustaining the heavens and the earth from falling into oblivion and if they fall into the abyss there is none to sustain them after Allah. 69 Indeed, Allah is Forbearing and All-Forgiving. 70

69 That is, "This limitless universe is being sustained by Allah alone. No angel, or jinn, or prophet, or saint can sustain it. Not to speak of sustaining the universe these helpless creatures do not even have the power to Sustain their own selves. Each one of them is entirely dependent on Allah Almighty for his birth and survival every moment. To think that any one of them has any share in the attributes and powers of Divinity is sheer folly and deception. " 70 That is, "It is Allah's Clemency and Forbearance that He is not seizing the culprits immediately in punishment in spite of All kinds of disobedience which are being shown towards Him "
Ayah 35:42

وَ اَقْسَمُوْا بِاللّٰهِ جَهْدَ اَیْمَانِهِمْ لَئِنْ جَآءَهُمْ نَذِیْرٌ لَّیَكُوْنُنَّ اَهْدٰى مِنْ اِحْدَى الْاُمَمِ١ۚ فَلَمَّا جَآءَهُمْ نَذِیْرٌ مَّا زَادَهُمْ اِلَّا نُفُوْرَاۙ Open ayah 35:42 in the Quran reader

These people used to swear on solemn oaths by Allah that if a warner had visited them, they would certainly have been better guided than any other nation in the world. 71 But when a warner did come to them, it increased them in nothing but aversion to the Truth.

71 Before the advent of the Holy Prophet, the same thing used to be said by the Arabs, in general, and by the Quraish, in particular, when they witnessed the moral degeneration of the Jews and the Christians. Mention of this saying of theirs has also been made in Surah Al-An'am :156-157 above, and in Surah AsSaffat: 167-169 below.
Ayahs 35:43–45

اِ۟سْتِكْبَارًا فِی الْاَرْضِ وَ مَكْرَ السَّیِّئِ١ؕ وَ لَا یَحِیْقُ الْمَكْرُ السَّیِّئُ اِلَّا بِاَهْلِهٖ١ؕ فَهَلْ یَنْظُرُوْنَ اِلَّا سُنَّتَ الْاَوَّلِیْنَ١ۚ فَلَنْ تَجِدَ لِسُنَّتِ اللّٰهِ تَبْدِیْلًا١ۚ۬ وَ لَنْ تَجِدَ لِسُنَّتِ اللّٰهِ تَحْوِیْلًا Open ayah 35:43 in the Quran reader

They began to behave even more haughtily in the land and to plot evil, whereas the plotting of evil recoils only on the plotters themselves. Now, are these people awaiting that they should be dealt with (by Allah) in the like way as the preceding nations were dealt with? 72 Well, you will never find any change in the Way of Allah, nor will you see that a power can turn the Way of Allah from its appointed course.

اَوَ لَمْ یَسِیْرُوْا فِی الْاَرْضِ فَیَنْظُرُوْا كَیْفَ كَانَ عَاقِبَةُ الَّذِیْنَ مِنْ قَبْلِهِمْ وَ كَانُوْۤا اَشَدَّ مِنْهُمْ قُوَّةً١ؕ وَ مَا كَانَ اللّٰهُ لِیُعْجِزَهٗ مِنْ شَیْءٍ فِی السَّمٰوٰتِ وَ لَا فِی الْاَرْضِ١ؕ اِنَّهٗ كَانَ عَلِیْمًا قَدِیْرًا Open ayah 35:44 in the Quran reader

Have they never travelled about in the land that they could see the end of those who have passed before them, and who were far mightier than they? There is nothing that could make Allah helpless, neither in the heavens nor in the earth: He knows everything and has power over everything.

وَ لَوْ یُؤَاخِذُ اللّٰهُ النَّاسَ بِمَا كَسَبُوْا مَا تَرَكَ عَلٰى ظَهْرِهَا مِنْ دَآبَّةٍ وَّ لٰكِنْ یُّؤَخِّرُهُمْ اِلٰۤى اَجَلٍ مُّسَمًّى١ۚ فَاِذَا جَآءَ اَجَلُهُمْ فَاِنَّ اللّٰهَ كَانَ بِعِبَادِهٖ بَصِیْرًا۠ Open ayah 35:45 in the Quran reader

If Allah were to seize the people for their misdeeds, He would not have left alive any living being on the earth. But He is giving them respite till an appointed time. So, when the appointed time comes, Allah will Himself see His servants.

72 That is, this Law of Allah that the nation which repudiates its Prophet, is destroyed should be applied in their case as well.