Al-Qalam 68:36 ما لكم كيف تحكمون ٣٦

68:36

مَا

لَكُمۡ

كَيۡفَ

تَحۡكُمُونَ

٣٦

What is the matter with you? How ill do you judge!¹

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Chapter 68, Page 565, Juz 29

34. Surely the God-fearing shall have Gardens of bliss with their Lord. 35. What! Shall We treat those who have submitted (to Our command) like those who have acted as criminals? 36. What is the matter with you? How ill do you judge! 37. Or do you have a Book wherein you read 38. that (in the Hereafter) you shall have all that you choose for yourselves? 39. Or have We sworn a covenant with you which We are bound to keep till the Day of Resurrection, (a covenant requiring that whatever you ordain for yourselves shall be yours)? 40. Ask them: “Which of them can guarantee that? 41. Or has something been guaranteed by any of those whom they associate with Allah in His Divinity?” If so, let them bring forth their associates, if they are truthful. 42. On the Day when the dreadful calamity will unfold, when people will be summoned to prostrate themselves, and yet they will not be able to prostrate. 43. Their eyes shall be downcast and ignominy shall overwhelm them. For when they were safe and sound, they were summoned to prostrate themselves, (and they refused). 44. So leave Me, (O Prophet), to deal with him who gives the lie to this Discourse. We shall draw them little by little (to their undoing) in a way that they will not know. 45. I am giving them a respite. Great is My scheme! 46. Or are you asking them for some compensation so that they feel burdened with debt? 47. Or do they have any knowledge of the Unseen which they are now writing down?

- A. Maududi (Tafhim commentary)