Surah Al-Waqi'ah 56:66
سُورَةُ الوَاقِعَةِ · Meccan · Verse 66 of 96
إِنَّا لَمُغْرَمُونَ
Translation
‘We are burdened with debt;
English translation: M.A.S. Abdel Haleem.
Meaning and reflection
'[Saying:] Indeed, we are now in debt.' Ibn Ashur and al-Saadi note the first cry of the farmer whose crop has failed, 'inna lamughramun': we are ruined, laden with loss, our investment gone. Ask yourself: this is the voice of every collapsed plan, every effort that came to nothing, the sick sense of 'I've lost everything I put in.' The verse captures it precisely because it wants me to feel how quickly my sense of security can flip to devastation when what I relied on fails. And it presses the deeper point: if my whole footing can be knocked out by one failed harvest, then my footing was never really the harvest at all. Where have I built my security on something that could leave me crying 'we are ruined' the moment it slips?
Grounded in classical tafsir: Ibn Ashur, al-Saadi, al-Biqa'i.
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