Surah Al-Waqi'ah 56:67
سُورَةُ الوَاقِعَةِ · Meccan · Verse 67 of 96
بَلْ نَحْنُ مَحْرُومُونَ
Translation
we are bereft.’
English translation: M.A.S. Abdel Haleem.
Meaning and reflection
'Rather, we are deprived.' al-Saadi and Ibn Ashur note the second cry, 'bal nahnu mahrumun': not merely in debt but cut off, denied our very sustenance, the provision withheld. Ask yourself: the two cries together, 'ruined' and 'deprived', capture the full panic of losing what I depended on to live. The verse lets me hear it so that I will locate my security somewhere it cannot be revoked. It quietly asks: when I imagine losing my livelihood, my provision, is my despair total, as though the crop were my life, or do I still know that the Provider remains even when the provision is withheld? The failed harvest is a small rehearsal of a bigger question: is my ultimate reliance on the gift, or on the Giver who can grant it again?
Grounded in classical tafsir: al-Saadi, Ibn Ashur, al-Biqa'i.
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