Surah Al-Baqarah 2:46
سُورَةُ البَقَرَةِ · Medinan · Verse 46 of 286
ٱلَّذِينَ يَظُنُّونَ أَنَّهُم مُّلَٰقُوا۟ رَبِّهِمْ وَأَنَّهُمْ إِلَيْهِ رَٰجِعُونَ
Translation
who know that they will meet their Lord and that it is to Him they will return.
English translation: M.A.S. Abdel Haleem.
Meaning and reflection
'Who are certain that they will meet their Lord and that to Him they will return.' Ibn Ashur and al-Saadi note what makes patience and prayer 'light' for the humble, their certainty ('yazunnun' here in the sense of firm conviction) of meeting God and returning to Him: the awareness of the destination transforms the endurance of the journey. Ask yourself: patience and prayer become bearable, even sweet, for those who are sure they are heading toward a meeting with their Lord. The endurance is easy when the reunion is certain. So much of my impatience and prayerlessness traces back to a dim sense of that meeting, I half-believe in the destination, so I resent the road. It presses me: the cure for a heavy spiritual life is not more willpower but a sharper certainty of where I'm going. How real to me is the meeting with my Lord, and would strengthening that certainty lighten everything else?
Grounded in classical tafsir: Ibn Ashur, al-Saadi, Ibn Kathir.
Topics that discuss this verse
Surah Al-Baqarah 2:46 is discussed in 5 study guides on Maani. Each guide gathers the key verses, Arabic words and lessons of one Quranic topic.
- Conjecture (Zann) (key verse)
- Reverence (Khushu) (key verse)
- Anguish (Ghamm)
- Hope (Raja)
- Society (Mujtama')
Reflect on this verse
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