Surah Ya-Sin 36:59
سُورَةُ يسٓ · Meccan · Verse 59 of 83
وَٱمْتَٰزُوا۟ ٱلْيَوْمَ أَيُّهَا ٱلْمُجْرِمُونَ
Translation
But step aside today, you guilty ones.
English translation: M.A.S. Abdel Haleem.
Meaning and reflection
'And [it will be said]: Stand apart today, O criminals.' Ibn Ashur and al-Saadi note the moment of separation: in this world the righteous and the corrupt are mingled, same streets, same families, same crowds, but on that Day the mixing ends and each is sorted to their own. The commonality of the present dissolves into the clarity of the outcome. Ask yourself: here I can blend into the crowd, my choices blurred among everyone else's, my direction hidden by the company I keep. This verse pictures a day when the crowd is dispersed and I stand with those whose path I actually shared. Stripped of the camouflage of the crowd, which group would my real, private choices place me among?
Grounded in classical tafsir: Ibn Ashur, al-Saadi, al-Biqa'i.
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