سُوْرَةُ اٰلِ عِمْرٰنَ
Surah Aal-i-Imraan (3) — Ayah 2
ٱللَّهُ لَآ إِلَـٰهَ إِلَّا هُوَ ٱلْحَىُّ ٱلْقَيُّومُ ﴿2﴾
Translation by Dr. Muhammad Muhsin Khan & Dr. Taqi-ud-Din al-Hilali
Allâh! Lâ ilâha illa Huwa (none has the right to be worshipped but He), Al-Hayyul-Qayyum (the Ever Living, the One Who sustains and protects all that exists).
Word by Word — Arabic, Transliteration & Meaning
ٱللَّهُ
al-lahu
Allah
لَآ
lā
(there is) no
إِلَـٰهَ
ilāha
God
إِلَّا
illā
except
هُوَ
huwa
Him
ٱلْحَىُّ
l-ḥayu
the Ever-Living
ٱلْقَيُّومُ
l-qayūmu
the Sustainer of all that exists
Tafsir Ahsan al-Bayan — Hafiz Salahuddin Yusuf
Tafsir Ahsan al-Bayan is a well-known Quran commentary by Hafiz Salahuddin Yusuf, a renowned Salafi (Ahl al-Hadith) scholar from Pakistan. This tafsir explains the meanings of the Quran in accordance with the methodology of the Salaf (early righteous generations), relying on authentic sources and straightforward language. Due to its reliability and adherence to sound Islamic scholarship, the Saudi government publishes and distributes this tafsir among the Hujjaj (pilgrims) visiting the Haramain. The tafsir is originally written in Urdu, translated to English by tohed.com.
2. 1. Ḥayy and Qayyūm are special attributes of Allah, which mean that He will remain from eternity to eternity; death and annihilation do not befall Him. Qayyūm means the One who sustains, protects, and oversees the entire universe; the whole universe is dependent on Him, and He is dependent on no one. The Christians considered ʿĪsā as Allah, or the son of Allah, or one of the three; thus, it is being said to them that when ʿĪsā (AS) is also a creation of Allah, he was born from his mother’s womb, and his time of birth is also much later than the creation of the universe, then how can he be Allah or the son of Allah? Furthermore, he should not have faced death, but a time will come when he will also encounter death, and according to the Christians, he already has. It is mentioned in the hadiths that in three verses is Allah’s Greatest Name (Ism al-Aʿẓam), by which if supplication is made, it is not rejected. One is this verse of Āl ʿImrān, the second is Āyat al-Kursī, and the third is Sūrat Ṭāhā (Ibn Kathīr, Tafsīr Āyat al-Kursī).
