Surah At-Tawba (9) — Ayah 69
Translation by Dr. Muhammad Muhsin Khan & Dr. Taqi-ud-Din al-Hilali
Word by Word — Arabic, Transliteration & Meaning
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69. 2. The second translation of "خلاق" is also "worldly share." That is, whatever portion of the world has been written in your destiny, enjoy it, just as those before you enjoyed their share and then met with death or punishment.
69. 3. That is, for the denial of the signs of Allah and His messengers. Or another meaning is that just as they were engrossed in worldly means and amusements, so are you. In the verse, "the people before" refers to the People of the Book, i.e., the Jews and Christians. As in a hadith, the Prophet ﷺ said, "By Him in Whose hand is my soul, you will surely follow the ways of those before you, span by span, cubit by cubit, and hand by hand, to the extent that if they entered a lizard's hole, you would surely enter it too." The people asked, "Do you mean the People of the Book?" He said, "Who else?" (Sahih Bukhari). However, the words "hand by hand" (باعا بباع) are not in it; they are in a narration quoted in Tafsir Tabari.
(4) "اولٰئک" refers to those who possess the aforementioned qualities and habits—both those who are being likened and those to whom they are being likened. Just as they were losers and unsuccessful, so will you be, even though they were stronger than you in power and much greater in wealth and children. Despite that, they could not escape the punishment of Allah, so how can you, who are lesser than them in every respect, escape Allah's grasp?
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[83] That is, the people of ‘Ad, Thamud, Nuh, Ibrahim, and others were such nations whose grandeur and glory surpassed yours. They lived lives of much greater luxury and ease than you. In terms of strength, they were also mightier than you, and in terms of wealth and offspring, they were far ahead of you. Those people too, intoxicated by the world, forgot the signs, became rebellious in disobedience, and began to mock and amuse themselves with the signs of Allah. And today, you are doing exactly the same. The result of forgetting Allah is that even if someone has done good deeds in the world, in the Hereafter all of them will go to waste, because the reward for deeds is given only when there is faith in Allah and the Day of Judgment, and when this very foundation is missing, then how can there be any reward? And what greater loss can there be than for a person not to receive the fruit of his own labor?
