Surah Al-Waqi'ah 56:51
سُورَةُ الوَاقِعَةِ · Meccan · Verse 51 of 96
ثُمَّ إِنَّكُمْ أَيُّهَا ٱلضَّآلُّونَ ٱلْمُكَذِّبُونَ
Translation
and you who have gone astray and denied the truth
English translation: M.A.S. Abdel Haleem.
Meaning and reflection
'Then indeed you, O you astray deniers...' Ibn Ashur and al-Saadi note the direct, jolting address, 'ad-dallun al-mukadhdhibun', the ones both astray (lost from the path) and denying (rejecting the truth): the two failures named together, wandering and refusal. Ask yourself: the verse pairs being lost with denial, and the order matters, for often the denial is what keeps me lost. To reject the map is to guarantee the wandering. It is a mirror held up to any part of me that is both off-course and unwilling to admit it. Where in my life am I both astray and in denial about it, lost precisely because I refuse to concede that I've lost my way? The first step off that road is simply to stop denying I'm on it.
Grounded in classical tafsir: Ibn Ashur, al-Saadi, al-Biqa'i.
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