Surah Al-Waqi'ah 56:80
سُورَةُ الوَاقِعَةِ · Meccan · Verse 80 of 96
تَنزِيلٌۭ مِّن رَّبِّ ٱلْعَٰلَمِينَ
Translation
sent down from the Lord of all being.
English translation: M.A.S. Abdel Haleem.
Meaning and reflection
'A revelation from the Lord of the worlds.' al-Saadi and Ibn Ashur note the source named plainly at the summit of the oath, 'tanzilun min rabb al-'alamin': sent down from the Lord of all the worlds, the ultimate origin and authority behind every word. Ask yourself: this is the claim that changes everything about how I should hold the Qur'an, it is not a human product, however wise, but a sending-down from the Lord of all creation. If I truly believed that the words I skim were dispatched to me personally from the Sustainer of the universe, I could not read them the way I read anything else. The oath, the guarded Book, the purity required, all of it converges here: this is His speech to me. Do I meet it as a message from the Lord of the worlds, or as one more text competing for my attention?
Grounded in classical tafsir: al-Saadi, Ibn Ashur, al-Biqa'i.
Topics that discuss this verse
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