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السجدة As-Sajdah

The Prostration 30 verses · Makkah

بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ

The Qur’ān

32:2

تَنزِيلُ ٱلْكِتَٰبِ لَا رَيْبَ فِيهِ مِن رَّبِّ ٱلْعَٰلَمِينَ ۝٢

This Qur’ān is the revelation of the Book in which there is no doubt that it is from the Lord of the universe.S. M. Rizvi (Explanatory)

32:3

أَمْ يَقُولُونَ ٱفْتَرَىٰهُ ۚ بَلْ هُوَ ٱلْحَقُّ مِن رَّبِّكَ لِتُنذِرَ قَوْمًۭا مَّآ أَتَىٰهُم مِّن نَّذِيرٍۢ مِّن قَبْلِكَ لَعَلَّهُمْ يَهْتَدُونَ ۝٣

What? Do they say that he, Muḥammad, has forged the Qur’ān? No, not at all! It is the truth from your Lord so that you, O Muḥammad, may warn a people (i.e., the Quraysh) to whom no warner prophet had come before you—with the hope that they may follow the guidance.S. M. Rizvi (Explanatory)

Creation of the Universe

32:4

ٱللَّهُ ٱلَّذِى خَلَقَ ٱلسَّمَٰوَٰتِ وَٱلْأَرْضَ وَمَا بَيْنَهُمَا فِى سِتَّةِ أَيَّامٍۢ ثُمَّ ٱسْتَوَىٰ عَلَى ٱلْعَرْشِ ۖ مَا لَكُم مِّن دُونِهِۦ مِن وَلِىٍّۢ وَلَا شَفِيعٍ ۚ أَفَلَا تَتَذَكَّرُونَ ۝٤

Allāh is one who has created the heavens and the earth and whatever is between them in six periods of time. He then sat down upon the ‘Throne’ and managed the universe. You do not have besides Him any guardian or any intercessor. Do not you then understand?S. M. Rizvi (Explanatory)

See footnotes under 7:54.

32:5

يُدَبِّرُ ٱلْأَمْرَ مِنَ ٱلسَّمَآءِ إِلَى ٱلْأَرْضِ ثُمَّ يَعْرُجُ إِلَيْهِ فِى يَوْمٍۢ كَانَ مِقْدَارُهُۥٓ أَلْفَ سَنَةٍۢ مِّمَّا تَعُدُّونَ ۝٥

Allāh does not only create, but He also regulates the affair from the heaven to the earth. Then all issues will ‘ascend’ to Him on the day of judgement whose timespan is a thousand years of what you count in this world.S. M. Rizvi (Explanatory)

32:6

ذَٰلِكَ عَٰلِمُ ٱلْغَيْبِ وَٱلشَّهَٰدَةِ ٱلْعَزِيزُ ٱلرَّحِيمُ ۝٦

This God is the Knower of the unseen and the seen, the Mighty, the Merciful.S. M. Rizvi (Explanatory)

32:7

ٱلَّذِىٓ أَحْسَنَ كُلَّ شَىْءٍ خَلَقَهُۥ ۖ وَبَدَأَ خَلْقَ ٱلْإِنسَٰنِ مِن طِينٍۢ ۝٧

God is one who has perfected everything that He has created, and He began the creation of the first human being from dust,S. M. Rizvi (Explanatory)

32:8

ثُمَّ جَعَلَ نَسْلَهُۥ مِن سُلَٰلَةٍۢ مِّن مَّآءٍۢ مَّهِينٍۢ ۝٨

and then He made his progeny from an extract of the humble water drop (i.e., the sperm).S. M. Rizvi (Explanatory)

32:9

ثُمَّ سَوَّىٰهُ وَنَفَخَ فِيهِ مِن رُّوحِهِۦ ۖ وَجَعَلَ لَكُمُ ٱلسَّمْعَ وَٱلْأَبْصَٰرَ وَٱلْأَفِْٔدَةَ ۚ قَلِيلًۭا مَّا تَشْكُرُونَ ۝٩

Then He made him (i.e., his body) complete and breathed into him of His spirit, and lo, he became alive. And He made for you the ears and the eyes and other senses to perceive the material world and the minds to analyze and formulate conclusions. But seldom do you thank God for such precious blessings.S. M. Rizvi (Explanatory)

Resurrection

32:10

وَقَالُوٓا۟ أَءِذَا ضَلَلْنَا فِى ٱلْأَرْضِ أَءِنَّا لَفِى خَلْقٍۢ جَدِيدٍۭ ۚ بَلْ هُم بِلِقَآءِ رَبِّهِمْ كَٰفِرُونَ ۝١٠

And they, the unbelievers, say: “What! when we have decayed after our death and the remnants of our body are lost in the vastness of the earth, shall we then indeed be resurrected in a new creation?!” They certainly disbelieve in meeting their Lord on the day of judgement.S. M. Rizvi (Explanatory)

32:11

۞ قُلْ يَتَوَفَّىٰكُم مَّلَكُ ٱلْمَوْتِ ٱلَّذِى وُكِّلَ بِكُمْ ثُمَّ إِلَىٰ رَبِّكُمْ تُرْجَعُونَ ۝١١

O Muḥammad, say to them: “The angel of death who has been made in charge of you shall cause you to die by extracting your souls from your body. (Only your bodies will decay, but your souls will stay intact and then be placed into your bodies after the resurrection). Then to your Lord you shall be returned.”S. M. Rizvi (Explanatory)

32:12

وَلَوْ تَرَىٰٓ إِذِ ٱلْمُجْرِمُونَ نَاكِسُوا۟ رُءُوسِهِمْ عِندَ رَبِّهِمْ رَبَّنَآ أَبْصَرْنَا وَسَمِعْنَا فَٱرْجِعْنَا نَعْمَلْ صَٰلِحًا إِنَّا مُوقِنُونَ ۝١٢

O Muḥammad, if only you could see when the guilty people (who presently deny the resurrection) shall hang down their heads before their Lord on the day of judgement. In that state, they will pray, “Our Lord! We have seen, and we have heard the truth of resurrection; therefore, send us back so that we may do good deeds; now we are indeed sure about the resurrection.”S. M. Rizvi (Explanatory)

32:13

وَلَوْ شِئْنَا لََٔاتَيْنَا كُلَّ نَفْسٍ هُدَىٰهَا وَلَٰكِنْ حَقَّ ٱلْقَوْلُ مِنِّى لَأَمْلَأَنَّ جَهَنَّمَ مِنَ ٱلْجِنَّةِ وَٱلنَّاسِ أَجْمَعِينَ ۝١٣

If We had wished, We would certainly have forcefully given every soul its guidance, and then admitted everyone into Paradise. But that would go against the test and trial that each person must go through in this world. However, the declaration that had gone forth from Me is the truth: “I shall certainly fill the Hell with the jinn and humans together who follow the Satan by their own choice.”S. M. Rizvi (Explanatory)

32:14

فَذُوقُوا۟ بِمَا نَسِيتُمْ لِقَآءَ يَوْمِكُمْ هَٰذَآ إِنَّا نَسِينَٰكُمْ ۖ وَذُوقُوا۟ عَذَابَ ٱلْخُلْدِ بِمَا كُنتُمْ تَعْمَلُونَ ۝١٤

In response to the guilty people’s plea mentioned earlier, Allāh will say: “So taste the punishment because you knowingly ignored the meeting of this day of yours; We certainly forsake you; so now taste the ever-lasting chastisement for the evil that you were doing.”S. M. Rizvi (Explanatory)

The Believers and the Evildoers

32:15

إِنَّمَا يُؤْمِنُ بَِٔايَٰتِنَا ٱلَّذِينَ إِذَا ذُكِّرُوا۟ بِهَا خَرُّوا۟ سُجَّدًۭا وَسَبَّحُوا۟ بِحَمْدِ رَبِّهِمْ وَهُمْ لَا يَسْتَكْبِرُونَ ۩ ۝١٥

Verily the only one who truly believes in Our verses are those who, when they are reminded of those verses, fall down in prostration, sing the praise of their Lord, and they do not act arrogantly;S. M. Rizvi (Explanatory)

32:16

تَتَجَافَىٰ جُنُوبُهُمْ عَنِ ٱلْمَضَاجِعِ يَدْعُونَ رَبَّهُمْ خَوْفًۭا وَطَمَعًۭا وَمِمَّا رَزَقْنَٰهُمْ يُنفِقُونَ ۝١٦

they ‘withdraw their sides’ away from the beds for night vigil, they call upon their Lord in the state of fear as well as hope, and they give in charity out of what We have given them.S. M. Rizvi (Explanatory)

32:17

فَلَا تَعْلَمُ نَفْسٌۭ مَّآ أُخْفِىَ لَهُم مِّن قُرَّةِ أَعْيُنٍۢ جَزَآءًۢ بِمَا كَانُوا۟ يَعْمَلُونَ ۝١٧

So no soul from the practising believers comprehends what is reserved for them (from among the delight of the eye) as a reward for the good that they were doing in this world.S. M. Rizvi (Explanatory)

32:18

أَفَمَن كَانَ مُؤْمِنًۭا كَمَن كَانَ فَاسِقًۭا ۚ لَّا يَسْتَوُۥنَ ۝١٨

Can a person who is a practising believer (e.g., ‘Alī bin Abī Ṭālib) be like a person who is a sinner (e.g., Walīd bin ‘Uqbah)? Of course, they cannot be equal!S. M. Rizvi (Explanatory)

See various narrations quoted by aṭ-Ṭabarī, Jāmi‘u ’l-Bayān, vol. 21, p. 68 and as-Suyūṭī, ad-Durru ’l-Manthūr, vol. 5, p. 178.

32:19

أَمَّا ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوا۟ وَعَمِلُوا۟ ٱلصَّٰلِحَٰتِ فَلَهُمْ جَنَّٰتُ ٱلْمَأْوَىٰ نُزُلًۢا بِمَا كَانُوا۟ يَعْمَلُونَ ۝١٩

As for those who believe and do good deeds, the gardens are their abiding place as a hospitality for what they were doing in this world.S. M. Rizvi (Explanatory)

32:20

وَأَمَّا ٱلَّذِينَ فَسَقُوا۟ فَمَأْوَىٰهُمُ ٱلنَّارُ ۖ كُلَّمَآ أَرَادُوٓا۟ أَن يَخْرُجُوا۟ مِنْهَآ أُعِيدُوا۟ فِيهَا وَقِيلَ لَهُمْ ذُوقُوا۟ عَذَابَ ٱلنَّارِ ٱلَّذِى كُنتُم بِهِۦ تُكَذِّبُونَ ۝٢٠

But for those who commit grave sins, their abode shall be the Hell-fire: whenever they intend to come out of it, they shall be pushed back into it, and it shall be announced to them, “Taste the chastisement of the fire which you used to deny.”S. M. Rizvi (Explanatory)

32:21

وَلَنُذِيقَنَّهُم مِّنَ ٱلْعَذَابِ ٱلْأَدْنَىٰ دُونَ ٱلْعَذَابِ ٱلْأَكْبَرِ لَعَلَّهُمْ يَرْجِعُونَ ۝٢١

Surely We shall make them taste the present lighter chastisement in this world before the greater chastisement in the hereafter, hopefully they may return to My path.S. M. Rizvi (Explanatory)

32:22

وَمَنْ أَظْلَمُ مِمَّن ذُكِّرَ بَِٔايَٰتِ رَبِّهِۦ ثُمَّ أَعْرَضَ عَنْهَآ ۚ إِنَّا مِنَ ٱلْمُجْرِمِينَ مُنتَقِمُونَ ۝٢٢

Who can be more unjust than the person who was reminded of the signs of his Lord still he decided to ignore it? We shall certainly take revenge from the guilty people.S. M. Rizvi (Explanatory)

32:23

وَلَقَدْ ءَاتَيْنَا مُوسَى ٱلْكِتَٰبَ فَلَا تَكُن فِى مِرْيَةٍۢ مِّن لِّقَآئِهِۦ ۖ وَجَعَلْنَٰهُ هُدًۭى لِّبَنِىٓ إِسْرَٰٓءِيلَ ۝٢٣

We indeed gave the Book (the Tawrāt) to Mūsā just as We gave the Qur’ān to you, so do not be in doubt concerning meeting Him, i.e., God, on the day of judgement. And We made it (the Tawrāt) a guidance for the children of Israel,S. M. Rizvi (Explanatory)

32:24

وَجَعَلْنَا مِنْهُمْ أَئِمَّةًۭ يَهْدُونَ بِأَمْرِنَا لَمَّا صَبَرُوا۟ ۖ وَكَانُوا۟ بَِٔايَٰتِنَا يُوقِنُونَ ۝٢٤

and We made among them leaders (Imams) to guide them by Our command since they were patient and were sure about Our signs.S. M. Rizvi (Explanatory)

32:25

إِنَّ رَبَّكَ هُوَ يَفْصِلُ بَيْنَهُمْ يَوْمَ ٱلْقِيَٰمَةِ فِيمَا كَانُوا۟ فِيهِ يَخْتَلِفُونَ ۝٢٥

On the day of resurrection, surely your Lord will judge between them (the people) concerning the issues wherein they were disputing with one another in this world.S. M. Rizvi (Explanatory)

32:26

أَوَلَمْ يَهْدِ لَهُمْ كَمْ أَهْلَكْنَا مِن قَبْلِهِم مِّنَ ٱلْقُرُونِ يَمْشُونَ فِى مَسَٰكِنِهِمْ ۚ إِنَّ فِى ذَٰلِكَ لََٔايَٰتٍ ۖ أَفَلَا يَسْمَعُونَ ۝٢٦

Does not the fact that We destroyed many generations before them (in whose abodes they go about) guide them to the right path? Most surely, there are signs in this destruction of the past. Do not they hear about the stories of the past nations?S. M. Rizvi (Explanatory)

32:27

أَوَلَمْ يَرَوْا۟ أَنَّا نَسُوقُ ٱلْمَآءَ إِلَى ٱلْأَرْضِ ٱلْجُرُزِ فَنُخْرِجُ بِهِۦ زَرْعًۭا تَأْكُلُ مِنْهُ أَنْعَٰمُهُمْ وَأَنفُسُهُمْ ۖ أَفَلَا يُبْصِرُونَ ۝٢٧

Do not they see that We drive the water through the clouds to a land that has no vegetation, then We bring forth thereby the crops of which their cattle and they themselves eat? Do not they see Our power and blessings?S. M. Rizvi (Explanatory)

32:28

وَيَقُولُونَ مَتَىٰ هَٰذَا ٱلْفَتْحُ إِن كُنتُمْ صَٰدِقِينَ ۝٢٨

They say, “When will this day of judgement take place, if you are truthful?”S. M. Rizvi (Explanatory)

32:29

قُلْ يَوْمَ ٱلْفَتْحِ لَا يَنفَعُ ٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوٓا۟ إِيمَٰنُهُمْ وَلَا هُمْ يُنظَرُونَ ۝٢٩

Say, O Muḥammad, “On the day of judgement the faith of those who disbelieve will be of noS. M. Rizvi (Explanatory)

32:30

فَأَعْرِضْ عَنْهُمْ وَٱنتَظِرْ إِنَّهُم مُّنتَظِرُونَ ۝٣٠

use, nor will they be given respite.” Therefore turn away from them and wait for the day of judgement; surely they are also waiting even though they do not realize it.S. M. Rizvi (Explanatory)