Translation by Dr. Muhammad Muhsin Khan & Dr. Taqi-ud-Din al-Hilali
Is with him the knowledge of the Unseen so that he sees?
Word by Word — Arabic, Transliteration & Meaning
أَعِندَهُۥaʿindahuIs with him
عِلْمُʿil'mu(the) knowledge
ٱلْغَيْبِl-ghaybi(of) the unseen
فَهُوَfahuwaso he
يَرَىٰٓyarāsees
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(Ayah 35){ اَعِنْدَهٗعِلْمُالْغَيْبِفَهُوَيَرٰى :} That is, this person, despite turning away from faith and all this miserliness and stinginess, is declaring himself pure, and assumes he is safe from the punishment of the Hereafter and deserving of its blessings—does he possess a telescope of the unseen knowledge with which he is seeing all this?
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35. 1. That is, does he see that if he spends in the way of Allah, his wealth will be depleted? No, he does not possess this knowledge of the unseen; rather, his avoidance of spending is merely due to miserliness, love of the world, and lack of conviction in the Hereafter, and these are also the reasons for his deviation from obedience to Allah.
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35. Does he have knowledge of the unseen so that he sees [26]?
[26] By this, it could mean either Walid bin Mughirah or his polytheist companion. Their knowledge regarding the Hereafter was extremely deficient and based on conjecture and assumption. Yet both made an agreement in such a manner as if they were seeing everything with their own eyes and were fully aware of the conditions of the Hereafter. Walid bin Mughirah’s knowledge was deficient in the sense that he thought just as in this world a person can save himself from a calamity by giving wealth, and the one who takes the wealth takes the calamity upon himself, similarly, the matter of the Hereafter would be the same and his polytheist companion would take his burden upon himself. And the polytheist companion made this promise on the basis that he was an absolute denier of the Hereafter; if he had any conviction, it was only that nothing is going to happen, so why should he leave the wealth he receives. Or it is possible that he too was doubtful about the Hereafter and had the same assumption regarding reward and punishment as Walid bin Mughirah had.