Surah Ar-Rahman 55:31
سُورَةُ الرَّحۡمَٰن · Medinan · Verse 31 of 78
سَنَفْرُغُ لَكُمْ أَيُّهَ ٱلثَّقَلَانِ
Translation
We shall attend to you two huge armies [of jinn and mankind].
English translation: M.A.S. Abdel Haleem.
Meaning and reflection
'We shall attend to you, O you two burdened classes.' Ibn Ashur and al-Saadi note the turn: 'sanafrughu lakum', a reckoning is coming for both mankind and jinn, an appointment that will not be skipped. What runs loose now will one day be fully addressed. Ask yourself: I live much of my life on the assumption that things will simply carry on unexamined, that the loose ends, the unsettled accounts, the deferred questions may never actually come due. This verse says the opposite: there is a moment when I will receive undivided attention, when my whole record is 'attended to'. Am I living as though that appointment is real and coming, or as though the informal, unaccountable present will just quietly extend forever?
Grounded in classical tafsir: Ibn Ashur, al-Saadi, al-Biqa'i.
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