Surah Al-Waqi'ah 56:62
سُورَةُ الوَاقِعَةِ · Meccan · Verse 62 of 96
وَلَقَدْ عَلِمْتُمُ ٱلنَّشْأَةَ ٱلْأُولَىٰ فَلَوْلَا تَذَكَّرُونَ
Translation
You have learned how you were first created: will you not reflect?
English translation: M.A.S. Abdel Haleem.
Meaning and reflection
'And you have already known the first creation, so will you not then remember?' Ibn Ashur and al-Saadi note the clinching logic: you have lived the proof, you already exist, brought about from nothing, so the reminder is simply to remember what you plainly are and reason from it. Ask yourself: the antidote the verse prescribes to my doubt is not new information but memory, 'tadhakkur', recalling what I already know. I possess the evidence of the first creation in my own existence, yet I forget to reason from it. So much of my faithlessness is not ignorance but forgetfulness, failing to connect what I already know to how I live. What truth do I already hold, plainly, that I have simply stopped remembering long enough to let it change me?
Grounded in classical tafsir: Ibn Ashur, al-Saadi, al-Biqa'i.
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